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Lucienne Renaudin Vary and the trumpet

‘I really fell in love with the trumpet. Just like you fall in love with a person: you just like everything about them. And I like everything about the trumpet’. Lucienne Renaudin Vary is a passionate ambassador for her instrument. She started trumpet lessons at the age of eight, played her first international competitions at the age of eleven and began her studies at the Paris Conservatoire at the age of 15, where she first studied classical trumpet and later jazz trumpet. She has since played her way to the top of the trumpet scene and performs internationally in both classical and jazz music.

She is always curious about new repertoire and the further development of her instrument. In the film ‘Lucienne Renaudin Vary and the trumpet’, we see her together with her Swiss trumpet maker Fabian Bächi, who adds a fourth valve to her instrument to extend the range of the low notes: ‘She always wanted to play the bass trumpet, but the instrument was a little too big for her,’ says Bächi, fulfilling a long-held dream of Lucienne’s with his experiment.

The musical centrepiece of the concert portrait ‘Lucienne Renaudin Vary and the trumpet’ is a concert at the Schleswig-Holstein Music Festival in the main church of St. Michaelis in Hamburg, where Lucienne Renaudin Vary impressively presents the possibilities of her instrument. With two concertos by Vivaldi and Marcello, she demonstrates her brilliance, virtuosity and strength in the baroque repertoire. The repertoire is complemented by three pieces by Astor Piazzolla, in which her incomparable tonal charm comes into its own.

First broadcast date: Sunday, 29 June 2025 at 17:40.

with Lucienne Renaudin Vary
and I Solisti Veneti under the direction of Guiliano Carella
At the Schleswig-Holstein Music Festival from the main church St. Michaelis in Hamburg

Written and directed by Beatrix Conrad
Editor: Antje Lass
Camera: Nikolai Sevke
Commissioning Editor NDR: Claudia Cellarius

A production of 3B-Produktion GmbH
Commissioned by NDR
In co-operation with ARTE

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is music journalist and was formerly, before founding the “3B-Produktion GmbH”, editor and presenter at the radio broadcaster “Klassik Radio” since 2003. Apart from her journalistic activities she has founded the “Musikkindergarten Hamburg”. Before working for the radio she was trainee as print journalist. In this way Maria Willer’s train of medial thinking spreads from the reader to the listener as well as to a film audience. Important for her is that stories reach out to human beings – whichever media is used.

Bernhard von Hülsen

Hat vor Gründung der „3B-Produktion GmbH“ ein knappes Jahrzehnt für die „AVE Gesellschaft für Fernsehproduktion“ Magazine, Talks, Dokumentationen, Reportagen und zunehmend junge Formate produziert. Vor seiner Produzentenlaufbahn promovierte er als Kollegiat der Deutschen Forschungsgemeinschaft zu deutsch-französischem Kulturtransfer und volontierte am Deutschen Historischen Museum. Er ist stark in der Musikszene verankert und hat hier über Jahre Akzente gesetzt.