Thank you to the incomparable Sandra Boynton, humorist, songwriter, director, music producer, children’s author, illustrator—and friend of the trombone—who gets us in the mood for fun every year.
April 6-13, 2025

International Trombone Week is on the horizon!

We celebrate every day in April and the surrounding weeks. It’s the perfect time to play your trombone, share it with others, and have fun making music online and in-person. This year’s “official” week is April 6-13, 2025. 🎵 Follow the latest ITW news on Mastodon. 🦣

Check out the latest schedule of April trombone celebrations.

Everyone is welcome: performers, artists, students, teachers, organizers, builders, and more. Past celebrations have included parades, live-streams, concert hall world premieres, workshops, garage concerts for the neighborhood, student recitals, jazz radio features, video compilations, online long-tone warm-ups for the universe, epic opera excerpt battles, world-first video masterclasses, and more.

It’s easy to add your event or resource—whether online, live-streamed, hybrid, or in-person. This is optional, of course, but it’s nice to share.

How will you celebrate?
International Trombone Week

It’s the perfect time to play your trombone!

Would you like some sheet music?

Thanks to generous composers, you can download, perform, and share wonderful works for trombone including:

  • Sunrise Over Frost and Fog by David Faleris. This piece won last year’s ITA Trombone Composition Contest.
  • Fanfare for the World by David Miller. This 50-second fanfare celebrated the ITA’s 50th and ITW’s 20th anniversaries.
  • Trios by David Caldwell and Colby Norton
  • Quartets by Nick Adams, Spencer Schaffer, and Patrick Cooper Sullivan
  • Octets. Seven legendary BoneWeek Fanfares composed by Brad Edwards
  • BandMusic PDF Library and IMSLP (International Music Score Library Project)
  • 💡If you want to learn how to play the trombone, Trombone Week is the perfect time to begin!
Your music awaits!

Do you need inspiration?

  • New! To help spread the word, we have made some ITW products available. Perhaps a sticker or shirt might be nice. 🙂
  • Begin and end each day with a very looooong long tone.
  • Call someone special and play them a jazz standard “just because”.
  • Hang out with Roger Cutts, Principal Trombone of the Welsh National Opera, who created an epic battle of opera excerpts from the trombone section’s perspective. Here’s just one example.
  • Play along with Lisa Liz Trombone as she runs through her daily trombone warm-up routine.
  • Play along with Alex Moraru, principal trombone with the National Radio Orchestra in Bucharest, as he works on his mouthpiece buzzing.
  • Practice a new scale, warm-up, or exercise every day during ITW. We like to play in a different mode-a-day: Ionian, Dorian, Phrygian, Lydian, Mixolydian, Aeolian, and Locrian.
  • Collaborate with a friend on a recording that stretches you a bit.
  • Watch The British Trombone Society’s International Trombone Week Video.
  • Alex Iles kicked off ITW’s 20th anniversary with a giant online warm-up. Participants played along, received a copy of Alex’s routine, and shook up the universe with a resonant group B-flat.
  • You can play Ukraine’s beautiful national anthem 🇺🇦 arranged by Christopher Bill.
  • Give your trombone and mouthpiece a thorough spring cleaning with Aaron Eckert’s helpful guidance.
  • Play some Descending Slur Sequences with Will Baker. Speaking of the wonderful Will Baker, he might inspire you to host your own neighborhood garage concert!
  • Share a drawing, painting, or photo of your trombone.
  • Go outside and be still for a while while meditating on trombone goodness.
  • Send happy birthday greetings via a phone call or via a video.
  • Sit with Sarah Jo on Classic 107 to learn about the Winnipeg Trombone Extravaganza for International Trombone Week. More than 40 trombonists debuted a work by Kristofferson.
  • Pick your “Top 3” in Trent Hamilton’s Introduction to the Trombone Family.
  • Watch Super Bone’s interview with Eric Budd, a multi-instrumentalist from Australia.
  • Re-visit your well-worn copy of Arban’s Famous Method for Trombone.
  • Learn to use music notation software—or your favorite pencil and eraser—and arrange something for a trombone-playing friend.
  • Soak up some rich trombone history with Will Kimball.
  • Do a trombone dance-of-joy through your home or Main Street.
  • Share your recital video.
  • Listen to this beautiful NPR TinyDesk Concert with Ryan Keberle and Catharsis.
  • Write a poem or haiku about your faithful trombone stand or mute.
  • Tell your headphones to play trombone music.
  • Explore the wonderful music and more shared by two of ITW’s longtime friends: Ryan Keberle and Wycliffe Gordon.
  • On Earth Day and Arbor Day, play a soft tune of gratitude under your favorite tree.
  • Watch Charlie Vernon and Columbus State University perform Christian Lindberg’s “Chick’a’Bone Checkout”.
  • Enjoy Hex Files by James Kazik performed by The Stephen F. Austin State University Trombone Octet conducted by Deb Scott.
  • Post a favorite trombone-related quotation.
  • Share a moody photo of your plunger mute.
  • Do you have other ideas?

Carpe Slidem!