Offering a unique and vital series of trumpeting/musical experiences, from the exploration of the natural trumpet, learning how to structure free improvisation, and first performances of important new compositions, the Chosen Vale International Trumpet Seminar is a place where participants are challenged to look beyond what he or she has already studied and grow in unexpected, musical ways. Participants are asked to work outside their own self-defined "comfort zone", to take new risks, and to accept personal responsibility for their technical and musical growth. Selected participants will perform with faculty members in three formal concerts in the Mary Keene Chapel as well as present solo and mixed trumpet ensemble music throughout the region.

Alongside traditional masterclasses (which focus on repertoire nominated in advance by each participant), chamber music, natural trumpet class, individual tutorials (presented in "Paris Conservatoire Style" with others in attendance), and yoga class (given by Markus Stockhausen), the faculty will also offer a series of workshops, exploring such topics as:

*sample*

Go Create Your Own: new career paths in the 21st Century (Carroll)

James Stamp: Warm-ups and Studies (Stevens)

Trumpet Teaching (Gould)

Extreme Trumpet: from Bach (natural trumpet) to Berio (Sequenza X) (Cassone)

Virtuosity: French flair with American air (Burns)

All Around the Trumpet and Intuitive Music (Stockhausen)

The New Performer/Composer:
suggestions for creating your own improvisations (Rosenboom)

Gustav Mahler: The Complete Trumpet Parts (Carroll)

To view the poster for the 2008 trumpet seminar, click here
For a schedule of events from the 2007 trumpet seminar, click here
For a complete list of participants in the 2007 trumpet seminar, click here
For a detailed report on the 2007 seminar, click here
To view the poster for the 2007 trumpet seminar, click here
For a schedule of events from the 2006 trumpet seminar, click here
For a complete list of participants in the 2006 trumpet seminar, click here

SOUND FILES (coming soon):

Rosenboom: Music for Unstable Circuits
Zelenka: Reiterfanfare (natural trumpets)
Gruber: Exposed Throat
Antheil: Sonata for Trumpet

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