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Tone Grafting 13 Aug 2013 | 07:06 pm
Tone Grafting by: Brad Edwards Here’s a practice trick that might be helpful. Sometimes we get so wrapped up in playing a phrase that we lose sight of maintaining a good TONE on every note througho...
Your Freelance Blueprint 7 Aug 2013 | 08:29 pm
By: Michael Attaway of Providence Brass I can remember being in college pursuing a music degree, and I was scared to death of entering the music field. Why? I knew that orchestra jobs are competi...
Improve Your Game – Trumpet, iBook version released 11 Mar 2013 | 10:15 pm
Danish TV trumpet celebrity Jan Glaesel’s new “Improve Your Game” books are now available at the iTunes store! This is good news for those of us that enjoy using these books, but don’t enjoy carrying ...
JoAnn Falletta and the Buffalo Philharmonic Perform First Ever Triple Trombone Concerto 12 Dec 2012 | 02:30 am
On November 16, 17 and 18, 2012 JoAnn Falletta and the Buffalo Philharmonic Orchestra performed the world premiere of Eric Ewazen’s Triple Concerto for Three Trombones and Orchestra featuring the trom...
Andy Scott shortlisted for British Composer Award 11 Dec 2012 | 12:17 am
Andy Scott’s Spirit of Mingus has been shortlisted for a British Composer Award 2012 in the Wind Band or Brass Band category. The work beat off stiff competition from some of the UK’s leading contempo...
Brass Clinic: Developing a Beautiful Brass Sound 11 Dec 2012 | 12:03 am
This discussion was developed for horn students, but works well for all brass. Sound is the first thing we notice and the last thing we remember about any performance. Tone is the most important a...
ART AND ARCHITECTURE INSPIRE TRUMPETER/ COMPOSER ERIK JEKABSON’S “ANTI-MASS” 24 Sep 2012 | 08:53 pm
Anti-Mass, a chamber-jazz concept album by trumpeter/composer Erik Jekabson, features his String-tet playing music inspired by artwork from the DeYoung Museum in San Francisco. The impressive list of ...
The HSU Brass Chamber Music Workshop Annual Composition Contest for Brass Chamber Music 23 Aug 2012 | 11:28 pm
Original previously unpublished works for brass 2013 Contest Information Composition should be an original, unpublished, multi-movement work for the following complement: brass septet (2221) – 2 trump...
Lawrence University Student Wins International Tuba Competition 21 Aug 2012 | 01:09 am
APPLETON, WIS. — Lawrence University student Trevor Litsey earned first-place honors in the recent International Tuba and Euphonium Association’s “Mock Orchestra Audition Competition” held at the Bruc...
Improve Your Game – coming soon! 10 Jul 2012 | 07:24 pm
Over the past weeks, I’ve been helping Danish trumpet TV star Jan Glaesel get his new “IMPROVE YOUR GAME” method book series for trumpet ready for publication. This is a method like no other. With ov...
