Thomas Gansch

Thomas Gansch (born 31 December 1975 in St. Pölten) is a well-known Vienna-based Austrian trumpet player.

[1][failed verification] He began his studies at Vienna music school at the age of 15.

In 1999 he was invited to the Vienna Art Orchestra, a renowned European Big Band.

Thomas Gansch performs on an unusual looking trumpet of his own design, commonly referred to as the "Gansch Horn", a rotary-valve trumpet (commonly seen in European orchestras) on which the valve section has been reconfigured so that the player holds the instrument in the same orientation as a piston-valve trumpet (commonly seen in jazz bands).

[2] He grew up in a musical family: This article about an Austrian musician is a stub.