Deborah Calland has given trumpet and organ recitals in the USA, France, Germany, Denmark, Finland and Iceland, as well as venues throughout the United Kingdom, and has performed concertos with, among others, the Singapore Symphony Orchestra, the Virtuosi di Kuhmo (Finland) and the Britten Sinfonia. She has also appeared as a recitalist at many of the major festivals in England, such as the Cheltenham and City of London.
She has a special interest in contemporary music and has played an active role in increasing the repertoire for the instrument. Compositions have been written for her by the British composers Hugh Wood, Robin Holloway, Sally Beamish, Diana Burrell, Jonathan Dove, Huw Watkins, Rhian Samuel, and John Hawkins, as well as the Finnish composer Einojuhani Rautavaara and Bent Lorentzen from Denmark. She has also given British premieres of works by Peter Sculthorpe and Aulis Sallinen. A CD of contemporary British music for trumpet and organ, recorded by Deux- Elles at Douai Abbey with organist William Whitehead, was released in 2006 to critical acclaim. In 2008 she co-founded the ensemble Counterpoise .
Deborah Calland is busy as a music arranger and editor, providing exciting and challenging music for trumpet students. Her publications include: Top Brass, Onstage Brass, a Suite from Carmen and two volumes of The Light Touch (Stainer and Bell), Trumpet Allsorts and Fingerprints (Faber). Several of these are represented on the Associated Board and Trinity syllabuses, and she has also written the Trinity sight-reading practice book, Sound at Sight. She has been the consultant for the trumpet syllabus for Trinity, and has reviewed trumpet discs for the BBC Music Magazine.
‘Deborah Calland and Beverley Calland sister soloists, played superbly’
Stephen Pettitt, Evening Standard
‘Calland sisters are stunning performers’
Roderic Dunnett, The Independent
‘The sister soloists were exceptionally adroit
Geoffrey Norris, Daily Telegraph
‘The playing of Deborah and Beverley Calland was peerless’
David Sonin, Hampstead & Highgate Express
‘Deborah Calland is an excellent musician and an accomplished trumpeter … Her last recital here in France was much applauded, and rightly so.’
H.C. Robbins Landon