Peter Voisin

Roger Voisin Trumpet - Volume #5

Click to hear a 1993 interview with Roger L. Voisin on WGBH Boston

Roger Louis Voisin
1918-2008
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You are listening to Roger Voisin (father) from one of his 7 Trumpet albums. Roger Voisin was a trumpet player (15 years principal) in the Boston Symphony Orchestra for 39 years. His father , Rene Louis Gabriel Voisin, was also a trumpet player in the Boston Symphony Orchestra and played in Paris's premier performance of Stravinsky's "Rite of Spring". Go here to the VoisinNation tribute site! Peter uses one of Roger's trumpets on the album jacket as the "Bridal Herald Trumpet" for formal wedding ceremonies just like the one performed at the Chatooga Club in Cashiers, North Carolina.

Peter Voisin, trumpet - leader and founder of the group; Peter attended the Aspen Music School, Oberlin Conservatory and New England Conservatory of Music; was a member of the Syracuse Symphony and the SSO Brass Quintet for ten years. He also played third trumpet and forth trumpet with Jacksonville Symphony Orchestra from 1983 to 2005. While in Jacksonville, he attended Southside United Methodist Church and performed on keyboard, Flugelhorn, Trumpet, and Piccolo Trumpet with “FAITH” praise band as well as performed at weddings with the well-known organists in Northeast Florida. He composes and arranges for brass and chamber groups.

Since moving to Hendersonville, NC in August of 2005, Peter has performed with the Asheville’s First Baptist Church Orchestra, The Spartanburg Philharmonic, (1st trumpet on Carmina Burana), the Brevard Community Orchestra and Brevard Chamber Orchestra, as well as Premier Brass Seasonal Christmas and Easter Services at St. James Episcopal Church in downtown Hendersonville, NC. He has now started playing with the Smoky Mountain Brass Band out of Asheville, NC. He is also a designated CRPC (Chartered Retirement Planning Councelor) and CLTC (Certified in Long Term Care) Financial Advisor since 1984.