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Richard III Heavyweight Member
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Posted: Fri Sep 19, 2014 3:04 pm Post subject: |
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Someone should ask the OP if seven years later he made the right decision. Thread started in 2007. I'll bet he has some insights now. _________________ Richard
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jf26 New Member
Joined: 05 Dec 2014 Posts: 6
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Posted: Mon Dec 22, 2014 8:22 pm Post subject: Collegiate trumpet teacher |
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Dr. Randy Grabowski from the University of Northern Iowa is a phenomenal teacher, trumpet player, musician, and person. |
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kehaulani Heavyweight Member
Joined: 23 Mar 2003 Posts: 9144 Location: Hawai`i - Texas
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VM Trumpet wrote: | I think the most ideal ways to quantify "best" in this topic is by how many students they turn out that get jobs fairly quickly after leaving the university/conservatory (this pertains to the orchestral student). |
There's another school of thought that affects this criteria, though, and that's that many successful teachers (success being defined in paragraph 1) are highly selective in who they take and that these new students are already fully-developed players.
Meaning, you don't always know from that criteria how well this teacher handles lesser players, and for most students, they will become teachers of (exaggerating here, now) whoever walks through the door. So they need teaching from someone who can take problematic students and develop them, as well.
(This is not to dismiss the criteria in para. 1 but just something to keep in mind.) _________________ "If you don't live it, it won't come out of your horn." Bird
"Well, even if I could play like Wynton, I wouldn't play like Wynton." Chet Baker
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m3auer Regular Member
Joined: 08 Dec 2014 Posts: 68 Location: Maryland
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Posted: Mon Dec 22, 2014 9:50 pm Post subject: |
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Ronald Romm is at University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. If you don't know the name he was a founding member of Canadian Brass. I had the chance to work with him over the summer a bit and he had a ton of insightful and constructive things to say. |
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Nonsense Eliminator Heavyweight Member
Joined: 03 Feb 2003 Posts: 5213 Location: Toronto
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Posted: Mon Dec 22, 2014 10:03 pm Post subject: |
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m3auer wrote: | Ronald Romm is at University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. If you don't know the name he was a founding member of Canadian Brass. |
Here's some off-topic nitpicking on a zombie thread... the founding trumpet players in the Canadian Brass were Stuart Laughton and Bill Phillips. _________________ Richard Sandals
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m3auer Regular Member
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Posted: Tue Dec 30, 2014 10:01 pm Post subject: |
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Nonsense Eliminator wrote: | m3auer wrote: | Ronald Romm is at University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. If you don't know the name he was a founding member of Canadian Brass. |
Here's some off-topic nitpicking on a zombie thread... the founding trumpet players in the Canadian Brass were Stuart Laughton and Bill Phillips. | Yes you're corrext. I made a mistake in my post. He came shortly after the group was formed. |
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blbaumgarn Heavyweight Member
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Posted: Fri Jun 28, 2019 12:02 am Post subject: Who is the best collegiate trumpet teacher in the country? |
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My experience with auditioning and choosing a school goes back 50 years but the memories are still crystal clear. I auditioned at 3 state universities and a small private college pretty close to home. Each experience was different and positive in its own way but the largest state u. was more of a production line i.e. they had lots and lots of prospects and you could either get there, get down to work, or get gone. The small private college was very interested in me personally as well as letting me develop. The last state university I auditioned at was really by chance. Admissions to the u. were already closed when I sent my paper work in so sometime around april my senior year I get a phone call from one of my school mates that was principle trumpet there asking if I was still interested in auditioning. So, my parents took me to audition and the whole experience was over the top positive. I had been told by one professor at the other state u. that I had a "fatal" embouchure problem that would require a year or two to correct or I "might as well" take up french horn. When I auditioned there was a wednesday after a tuesday night basketball game where I got a swollen lip.
I did the whole audition, they seemed pleased, save the comments at the end and I was accepted, too. At the last place I played for one of the trumpet teachers, and the trombone teacher. Then they had me go through the usual scales, arban studies, etc. I told them what they had said at the other school and said I was workng on the problem. The trumpet teacher just said, you don't really have that problem and when we are done I can tell ya a couple things to do in practice that will help you center the embouchure. They then had me exit and asked my parents in to his studio where they said, "we can't have this young man get lost at OSU." He was right. My experience is go where you feel that teacher or teachers is vitally interested in your progress and growth in music. The vast majority are and they have the reputation as great teachers because that is their goal for each student indivitually. The teacher I studied was Eastman educated and wonderful, both as a teacher and a man. He never talked about growing and progressing on the instrument as being "a problem." Find people like that and you will never regret attending any college or university. By the way, these year after this topic was started all those people mentioned are still wonderful teachers preparing many for fulfilling careers in music. _________________ "There are two sides to a trumpeter's personality,
there is one that lives to lay waste to woodwinds and strings, leaving them lie blue and lifeless along a swath of destruction that is a
trumpeter's fury-then there is the dark side!" Irving Bush |
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