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Dear Forum,
This seems as good a way as any to let the trumpet world know about a new course at CalArts (prepare for a cut & paste)
Thanks, and please feel free to e-mail me if you have any questions.
EC
CalArts-School of Music announces the formation of a new program:
New Millennium Brass Performance
The Program: An innovative, new, advanced level program in professional education for musicians is opening at CalArts. Rounding out its already powerful Instrumental Performance Program, preparations for a new approach to creating a meaningful and comprehensive curriculum for all brass instruments (trumpet/cornet, horn, trombone, tuba/euphonium) are underway.
This new course in brass studies will be a hospitable environment for intensive study and experimentation that values new composition and technology, presents intensive ensemble work (quartet, quintet, dectet, and full orchestral brass ensemble), and stresses the importance of creating one's own career path. Graduate and advanced-level undergraduate students are encouraged to apply. Applicants may be considered whose technical and musical levels of achievement are congruent with the goals of the course. It is anticipated that six trumpeters, four hornists, four trombonists, one euphoniumist, and two tubists will be accepted into the course.
Musicians enrolled in brass studies at CalArts will work within a mix of traditional, non western, and improvisational musics, cutting edge composition, recording, and collaboration with its schools of theater, dance, and film to inventively re-configure themselves as soloists or as performing ensembles. In this way, young, emerging professional performers and ensembles may be able to distinguish themselves with a unique, creative stamp that makes them stand out in the population of excellent performers in our international culture.
Guest Artists: Plans include inviting guest artists for brief residencies and to make presentations, such as trombonist/new mediaists Abbie Conant and John Kenny, trumpeters John Wallace and Jim Thompson, and tubist Sam Pilafian.
Faculty: To provide instruction and artistic guidance, the initial faculty compliment will include Brass Studies Coordinator, Edward Carroll (trumpet), and instructors, Daniel Katzen (horn), James Miller (trombone), and Norman Pearson (tuba and euphonium).
Special Note: The School of Music is also considering inviting one full-time, emerging brass quintet to the graduate program to help launch the new course. This ensemble would prepare new programming and serve as a presentational model to represent the program's goals. Interested groups whose goals are consistent with those of the course and who are appropriate for advanced, graduate study leading towards the MFA degree should contact the School and/or the Brass Studies Coordinator.
http://music.calarts.edu/
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