ROBERT SULLIVAN is an active recitalist and clinician and performs on the
Yamaha YTR-8335 and YTR-8445. Prior to his appointment in the Cleveland
Orchestra as Assistant Principal Trumpet in September 2003, Robert served
as Associate Principal Trumpet in the New York Philharmonic for eleven seasons.
He was named to the faculty of the Manhattan School of Music in 1994 and joined
the faculty of the Cleveland Institute of Music in the fall of 2004. "I've been
playing various Yamaha trumpets for almost twenty years. I bought my first Yamaha
trumpet, an Eb/D on advice from my teacher, Armando Ghitalla, who was a Yamaha Artist.
Yamaha trumpets have always been known for their superior evenness, intonation and
response, but it is the richness and flexibility of the tone of the newest designs
that keeps me playing them. Yamaha has been extremely sensitive to requests from
artists, and has developed trumpets that are now superior, in my mind, to anything else I have played."