Alain De Rudder
Alain De Rudder studied at the Lemmensinstituut Leuven and at the Brussels Royal Music Conservatory, where he won a first class diploma for trumpet and the higher diploma for chamber music. He then continued his studies under Prof. Reinhold Friedrich at the Staatliche Hochschule für Musik in Karlsruhe. In 1990 he was selected as solo trumpeter for the European Youth Orchestra, where he played until 1993, under conductors such as Claudio Abbado, Carlo Mario Guilini, Vladimir Ashkenazy and Charles Dutoit.
Alain De Rudder was principal trumpet of ‘DeFilharmonie’ in Antwerp from 1992 until 2008 and is currently the first solo trumpet in the Orchestre des Champs-Elysées. He is a regular solo guest player with the Ensemble Modern, the Radio-Sinfonie-Orchester Frankfurt, the NDR Sinfonieorchester Hamburg, the Württembergisches Kammerorchester Heilbronn, the Budapest Strings and the China National Symphony Orchestra Beijing. Alain De Rudder teaches trumpet at the Royal Flemish Conservatoire of the Hogeschool Antwerpen and is a member of among others the Ottone Brass Quintet, the Spectra Ensemble, Champ d’Action and I Solisti del Vento.