BOSTON, MA (November 5, 2018)—Educator, bandleader, musician, and clinician Tanya Darby will join the brass department at Berklee College of Music as its chair next semester. Darby currently works as an assistant professor of lead trumpet at University of North Texas, and has previously held adjunct faculty positions at Temple University and The New School University of New York City.
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Dennis Ferry, former Principal Trumpet of the Orchestre de la Suisse Romande in Geneva (1977-2008), recently played cornet à pistons in the 100th anniversary of the premiere of Stravinsky's l’Histoire du Soldat. The performance took place in Geneva, Switzerland on September 28, 2018, exactly 100 years after the premiere, which was given at the Theatre Municipal in Lausanne.
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ITG has learned of the passing of American jazz trumpeter Roy Hargrove.
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Hello, and welcome to the ITG Web Site! I’m Cathy Leach, fortunate and happy to be the incoming ITG President and want to thank you for viewing our website.
I attended my first ITG Conference in 1981. Why do I continue to be a member? ITG Conferences, the ITG Journal, the ITG website, and ITG’s secret sauce---its membership.
By attending a Conference, you have the opportunity to stop Allen Vizzutti in a hallway and ask him “how do you do produce this particular passage so easily?” You have the opportunity to meet Sean Jones and ask ___”What goes on inside of you when you’re playing those fantastic jazz solos?” You have the opportunity to speak to trumpet teachers like longtime ITG member Gordon Mathie and ask “how do I help students improve their lip slurs”? Bring your trumpet and you can play from the first moment on, in group fanfares, warm up sessions, ensemble reading sessions, Festival of Trumpets, evening jam sessions and other events.
By exploring the ITG Website, (big, big thank you to Michael Anderson, our website director, and his legions of editors, contributors and volunteers), you can
