Helen Barsby

New Zealand

I hope to have found what I have been searching for with Brass Sound Creation. Mr Kato's trumpets are surprising from the begining. Because I perform in many varied situations I need instruments which offer flexibility, warmth and personality, as well as the good high register, intonation, projection and all one expects from professional equipment. Even the student "Millenium" model provides these facets.
I wish Brass Sound Creation in its various models all the very best, and welcome it to the forum for personality amongst trumpeters!

e-mail : helenbarsby@aol.com

< Helen Clare Barsby >
- grew up in New Zealand, where she first studied the trumpet at the School of Music in the Victoria University of Wellington. She visited Europe twice as a member of Les Jeunesses Musicales Worldorchestra (1991/2) and decided to continue her studies in Europe, firstly in Germany (Detmold and Frankfurt), and in Holland a study in "Early Music in The Hague".
During her studies Helen Barsby had the chance perform with the following ensembles: New Zealand Symphony Orchestra, "The Baroque Players", Junge Deutsche Philharmonie, Hessischen Staatstheater Wiesbaden, the Landestheater Detmold. 
At the same time she performed the musicals in Stuttgart (Miss Saigon, Beauty and the Beast, Cats). Because she loves variety she was co-founder in 1997 of a brass quartet "Brass Unlimited" (whose first CD came out in 2001), 
Since 1998 she is a member of a modern jazz ensemble "The United Women's Orchestra" (on two of their CD's), since 2001 she is with "Rock & Gebläse", and since 2002 a member of the brass sextet "Women in Brass".
On the baroque trumpet she has performed in Germany, Belgium, Holland and in New Zealand. In her spare time she is studying to become a teacher of Iyenger Yoga, planning to add this dimension to her travelling life in the future.
   

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BRASS UNLIMITED
                  <1999>

Helen Barsby (cornet, trumpet, flugelhorn)
Willi Budde (cornet, trumpet, flugelhorn)
Csaba Rabi (trombone)
Shawn Grocott (trombone)
Gregor Fas (frenchhorn)
Joszef Hars (frenchhorn)
Murray Stenhouse (trombone)