The title 'artist' is very much an umbrella term. The Oxford dictionary defines 'artist' as: "a person who produces paintings or drawings as a profession or hobby; a person who practices any of the various creative arts; or a person skilled at a particular task or occupation." In this post, I decided to interview someone outside of the fine arts field. Nick Biggs is a high school classmate of mine who is a musician.
Q: What is it that you do? Who are you? ( Please give a description of the type of work/artwork you do.)
A: My name is Nick Biggs, I am a trumpet player finishing up the final year of a Bachelor of Music degree in Trumpet Performance. Mostly I play classical trumpet, I play in the University of Wyoming Wind Symphony, The University of Wyoming Symphony Orchestra, The Wyoming Brass Quintet and until recently the Wyoming Jazz Ensemble. Along with developing a solo performance career.
Q: Who inspired you to make music?
A: A Lot of people have inspired me to make music. A solid foundation is my instructors, from when I first started with private lessons to now finishing my first degree, my private instructors and ensemble directors have had the biggest influence on me wanting to make music and keep going. But also my peers, the people over the past 10 years that I've played with have kept going, pushed me farther, and helped my progress an incredible amount.
3. Q: Who would you like to collaborate with if you could?
A: There are a lot of people I would love to collaborate with. It's difficult to narrow it down to one specific person. I've worked with Boston Brass over a summer intensive once, which included Tim Morrison as a guest lecturer. But if I can pick any one single person in history to collaborate with it would be the late great former principal trumpet of the Chicago Symphony Orchestra and arguably the best to do it, Bud Herseth.
Q: Does emotion play a big part in what you choose to play?
A: It sort of depends on the context. Planning a recital of course I would be picking some pieces that have an emotional message behind them to portray. But at the same time to balance it out I would add big historical works for trumpet, fun pieces, silly pieces. So yes, emotion has a huge impact on playing to some degree, but there's always room to show off or have fun.
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