Hakan Hardenberger is consdered by many to be the world’s foremost trumpet player. He’s on a mission – to stimulate more composers to write for the instrument. “Hardenberger’s eagerness to encourage composers to celebrate the trumpet was born of frustration at the paucity of things written for it, but then, he says, ‘I started to see it as an advantage. Although I am not a composer, I had to be creative – to look for something new’.”