Michael Anderson is an Assistant Professor of Music at Dana College in Blair, Nebraska. At Dana he directs the Dana College Jazz Ensemble, the Dana Brass Ensemble, teaches trumpet as well as classes in musicianship, aural skills, rock and jazz history. Michael is a member of the Lincoln Symphony Orchestra, the Omaha Brass  ensemble, and a variety of other performance organizations. He is the founder and administrator of theanderson.jpg Trumpet Players International Network, a popular internet community of trumpet enthusiasts from all over the world. In 1995, he was named to the International Trumpet Guild Technology Committee and was selected to compile and administer the ITGs World Wide Web Site at Dana. In 1997, Anderson was elected to the ITG Board of Directors. He serves as Chair of the Technology Committee and Director of the ITG Website. In this capacity he oversaw and implemented the recent redesign of the entire ITG site and is project coordinator for the ITG Journal CD-ROM project. Anderson has presented workshops and performed at several ITG Conferences and heads the team that provide online coverage of each conference as it happens.

Anderson will outline and demonstrate how to get connected to several online communities of players. He will show how to subscribe to an email discussion list, use a search engine, access network newsgroups, online auctions, ITG Conference coverage, employment opportunities, calendar of events, trumpet sound files and live, real-time chat sessions with other players. He will demonstrate some of the hundreds of excellent web sites related to trumpet playing and music in general. Those in attendance will be exposed to colorful web sites such as Trumpet Geeks International and Hosaphone Headquarters, tribute sites for Bill Chase, Maynard Ferguson, Bill Adam, Maurice Andre and others, several rich resource sites that make available to anyone all kinds of free information, and more.

This presentation is designed to help the beginning internet user discover some of the myriad trumpet and music-related resources available. Musicians of all kinds have embraced internet technologies and trumpet players are no different. The internet is bringing together complex communities of trumpet players from all parts of the globe who are extremely active in sharing pedagogical ideas, gig stories, buying and selling new and old equipment, information on recordings, method books, upcoming concerts, job openings, compositions, sound and video files, and on and on. (Wed., May 19, 1 p.m.)


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