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The Twentieth Annual Big 12 Trombone Conference will take place from January 13 – 15, 2023. This year’s featured guest artist is Peter Steiner. Entries for the Big 12 Solo Competitions will be accepted through Tuesday, November 7th. Entries may be submitted via email or postal mail. For repertoire, rules, and prize information, please visit…
Caleb Owenby is leading a commission for solo tenor trombone and piano entitled “7 Deadly Sins.” The new work, composed by Ben Dondanville, will take one motif in C minor, and adapt it into seven different short movements representing the seven deadly sins (Sloth, Greed, Gluttony, Lust, Envy, Wrath, and Pride). The work will be…
Kris Garfitt of Great Britain, Solo Trombonist of the WDR Symphony Orchestra, won first prize and the audience prize at the prestigious ARD International Music Competition. Founded in 1952, the competition invites young musicians from around the globe to compete in multiple rounds; works performed range from world premieres to standard compositions for trombone and piano,…
Betty Glover, one of the first female orchestral trombonists in the United States, passed away on September 27, 2022 at the age of 99. Glover studied trombone with Ernest Glover at the Cincinnati Conservatory of Music (CCM) from 1941-1944. Shortly after graduation, she won the audition for principal trombone with the Kansas City Philharmonic Orchestra….
Matthew Guilford, bass trombonist with the National Symphony and senior lecturer at University of Maryland, College Park, will be a featured soloist with the UMD Wind Orchestra. On December 9, 2022, Guilford will perform James Stephenson’s Sonata Rhapsody “The Arch” on a program that also includes music by Lance Hulme, William Grant Still, and Carlos…
David Krauss, Principal Trumpet of the Metropolitan Opera Orchestra, hosts Speaking Soundly, a new podcast that interviews today’s top performers. According to the website, the podcast “brings the lives and stories of high-profile, international, diverse, and vibrant performing artists to listeners.” Denson Paul Pollard, Professor of Music at Indiana University and member of the MET…
Cory Mixdorf, along with pianist Miroslava Panayotova, proudly offers his first solo album, aptly titled Songs & Elegies. With the aim of creating an album that mostly focuses on the cantabile side of the instrument, the repertoire is split into three categories: vocal pieces, elegies, and other song-related works. Mixdorf uses vocal repertoire often in…
Norwegian Martha Eikemo Andersen won the bass trombone audition for the Swedish Radio Symphony Orchestra. Congratulations!
Philip and Shelley Martinson recently released Duprass: Music for Flute and Trombone. Committed to creating and performing new works for flute and trombone, the Martinsons have commissioned and premiered numerous pieces for this unique instrumentation. The album includes compositions by Paul Richards, James Beckel, Nicole Chamberlain, and Donald Appert. The Martinsons are both professors at Southwestern Oklahoma State University. Dr. Philip…
Photo credit: Chris Christodoulou On August 16, 2022, Peter Moore became the first trombonist in over 20 years to be featured as a concerto soloist at the BBC Proms. Moore performed George Walker’s Trombone Concerto, which was composed in 1957. Moore performed with the Royal Philharmonic Orchestra under the baton of Vasily Petrenko. The concert…