Kasper Thaarup *1974 +45 20 45 19 25

Altbasun, tenorbasun, basbasun
Alto trombone, tenor trombone, bass trombone
Startede sin instrumentale løbebane på lokale musikskole med Carsten Svanberg som basunlærer. Fra 1992-94 MGK - elev (Musikalsk Grund Kursus) i Ishøj.
I 1994 optaget på Det Kongelige Danske Musikkonservatorium med Torbjörn Kroon som hovedfagslærer. Konkurrede sig i 1997 ind i  RadioUnderholningsOrkestret som solobasunist.
Videregående studier hos tidl. tubaist i Chicago Symphony Orchestra, Arnold Jacobs samt basunisterne Michael Mulcahy og Charles Vernon, ligeledes Chicago Symphony. 
Omfattende solistvirksomhed og i 1997 prisvinder som Brass Bands solist.
Diplomeksamen fra  Det Kongelige Danske Musikkonservatorium 1999.

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Born in 1974.
Trained at the Royal Danish Academy of Music in Copenhagen under the professorship of Torbjörn Kroon, 1994-97. Auditioned, in 1997, and succeeded in gaining the position as principal trombone player at the Danish National Radio Sinfonietta. Further studies in Chicago under Chicago Symphony Orchestra players, the former, and now deceased, tubist Arnold Jacobs and the trombonists Michael Mulcahy and Charles Vernon. Kasper Thaarup is often called upon as a soloist and in 1997 he won the soloist prize in a competition for brass bands. Graduated in 1999 at the Royal Danish Academy of Music.