Trumpet Solos with Piano Accompaniment
This page lists Eddie Lewis’ trumpet solos with piano accompaniment. Most of these are easy trumpet solos. We noticed that there was a gap in available trumpet solos at the lowest, beginning skill level. Most of the trumpet solo music available for beginners has at least one musical element that falls outside of what we consider to be beginner parameters.
We do have some more advanced trumpet solos with piano accompaniment. These are not educational pieces. They are more expressive pieces for performance repertoire.
Apostle’s Journey – Trumpet Solo
Apostle’s Journey
Trumpet Solo with Piano Accompaniment
for Paul Kurtz
Take your audiences on a journey to exotic destinations with Apostle’s Journey trumpet solo. This is an advanced skill level composition for trumpet and piano.
Apostle’s Journey is a rhapsody with four distinct episodes. These episodes are symbolic of the “journey” in the title. The piece was composed first as a solo with band accompaniment. The piano part in this PDF is a piano reduction of the band accompaniment.
The composition’s thematic material is expressive without being overly odd. It was meant to be immediately digestible by most music audiences. There are odd meters, but those are used mostly to create different moods throughout the composition. There is very little dissonance. What dissonances there are in Apostle’s Journey function as extensions of the harmonies and are systematically resolved.
The trumpet part in Apostle’s Journey is flashy without being overly virtuosic.
Apostle’s Journey and Paul Kurtz
The idea for Apostle’s Journey began in San Antonio in 2017 at the International Trumpet Guild convention. I met Paul Kurtz in person for the first time and had the pleasure of spending some time with him during the convention. We had known each other for many years through an online list server called Trumpet Players International Network.
My wife and I were at the convention primarily because the UTEP trumpet ensemble was performing one of my compositions as one of the opening fanfares. I remember mentioning my Love Commissions to Paul and that’s when I had the idea to compose something for him to perform with the community band’s he works with.
Copyright Year: 2019
Performance Rights Organization: BMI
Belief – Beginner Trumpet Solo
Belief
Beginner Trumpet Solo with Piano Accompaniment
Although this composition is called Belief, it does not sound (to my ears) particularly religious or spiritual. When I heard the music played on Finale (Finale has a play-back feature on it) it sounded like a theme from a kid’s movie. Then I thought about kids’ movies in general and how they had innocent, but important messages for their audiences. So I decided to call this piece Belief in honor of beginner trumpet students.
There is a blog post for Belief you can read. You can access that blog by clicking the following button:
There is also a free trumpet play-along video for Belief. You can access that video by pressing the following button:
Copyright Year: 2021
Performance Rights Organization: NA
Bird March – Beginner Trumpet Solo
Bird March
Beginner Trumpet Solo with Piano Accompaniment
The Purple Parrot is one of three beginner trumpet solos in the Bird Solo Series. These are trumpet solos written for trumpet students who have only been playing the trumpet for a few months.
Copyright Year: 2020
Performance Rights Organization: NA
Flight of the Bumblebee – Easy Trumpet Solo with Piano Accompaniment
Easy Flight of the Bumblebee
Trumpet Solo with Piano Accompaniment
This is a simplified version of Flight of the Bumblebee that I wrote for my students. It’s not uncommon for the young students to hear a performance of Flight of the Bumblebee and they want to play it themselves. This arrangement makes it possible for students in our second skill level to play the piece they love so much. The range only goes to fourth space E and the sixteenth notes have been rewritten as eighths.
Copyright Year: 2020
Performance Rights Organization: NA
James Lan’s March for Trumpet and Piano
James Lan’s March
Trumpet Solo with Piano Accompaniment
James Lan’s March is a march in the style of a ragtime. This piece is influenced by the works of Scott Joplin. It is fun to listen to and is rather light hearted compared to the more serious pieces by composers like Beethoven or Brahms. James Lan’s March would be considered a Class II solo if it were played in a UIL Solo and Ensemble competition. However, the piano part is closer in difficulty to a Class I solo.
Copyright Year: 2020
Performance Rights Organization: NA
Seizing Victory Trumpet Sonata
Seizing Victory Trumpet Sonata
Trumpet Solo with Piano Accompaniment
by Eddie Lewis and Alex Lewis
“What did you do with your down time during covid lockdowns?”
We get that question every once in a while and one of the things I did was work on my very first collaborative composition. My son, Alex, and I spent about a year working together on Seizing Victory, finishing up in mid 2021. We then performed it at the church where he is the music minister in late 2021.
It is not only the collaboration that makes the Seizing Victory Trumpet Sonata different from most of my other work, the objective was also very different. I rarely just write to express myself. There is always something more to it than that. Yet, with Seizing Victory, I wanted Alex and I to enjoy the creative process together. So, in this case, very much in contrast with how I typically work, the objective was 100% expression.
To be clear, I strive to be expressive in every composition I write. By making expression secondary to other needs (such as educational and commercial needs), that expression must be tempered to meet those objectives. Seizing Victory was not tempered in that way.
Another very big difference with Seizing Victory Trumpet Sonata is that we were writing it to perform ourselves. This was not for students. It was not primarily commercial. It was something we wanted to do as a father and son project, to write something expressive that we could add to our recital program.
Copyright Year: 2021
Performance Rights Organization: BMI
Southwest Sunrise Beginner Trumpet Solo
Southwest Sunrise
Beginner Trumpet Solo
by Eddie Lewis and Alex Lewis
Give your beginner trumpet student an opportunity to perform with more advanced piano friend with this Southwest Sunrise trumpet solo.
Southwest Sunrise is a trumpet solo for beginner trumpet students that has a more complicated piano part. I often get requests for music for students of different skill levels. And in fact, that’s what of my strengths as a writer, is that I can blend parts across skill levels that way.
In this case, Alex and I were striving for something that would be interesting for the pianist, but not overly challenging for the beginner trumpet student.
The Process
The inspiration for this piece came to me on a morning walk in Chandler, Arizona. Chandler is a suburb of Phoenix. I was walking east, into the rising sun. It was a very simple melody. It was a very simple blues melody that I immediately recognized as something that would work in our series for beginner trumpet students.
This was during a time when my son, Alex, and I were already collaborating on some other projects. For this piece, I gave Alex the melody and gave him a general description of what I was hearing. Then I gave him his space to create what sounded good to him.
The next stage was me editing some of his creativity. At this point we went back and forth on a few issues until we agreed on the final results.
Copyright Year: 2021
Performance Rights Organization: BMI
Trumpet Tyro Capers Easy Trumpet Solo
Trumpet Tyro Capers
Easy Trumpet Solo with Piano Accompaniment
by Alex Lewis
This is one of the trumpet solos that I commissioned my son, Alex, to compose for us. The objective was to write a piece that stayed within the boundaries of our Trumpet Tyro skill level, which is the second of two beginner trumpet levels in our system.
Copyright Year: 2021
Performance Rights Organization: NA