Let the trumpet sound: the New York Philharmonic announced on Thursday that its next principal trumpet player would be Christopher Martin, who currently holds the position at the Chicago Symphony Orchestra and who will begin in New York in September.
Mr. Martin, who was offered the position by Alan Gilbert, the Philharmonic’s music director, will succeed Philip Smith, who retired in 2014 after 36 seasons with the orchestra. Currently in his 11th season as the principal in Chicago, an orchestra famous for its brasses, Mr. Martin previously served as the principal trumpet of the Atlanta Symphony Orchestra and the associate principal trumpet of the Philadelphia Orchestra.
Many New Yorkers may have already heard him without realizing it: he played a trumpet solo in John Williams’s soundtrack for Steven Spielberg’s film “Lincoln.”