L to R: Phil Snedecor (TU faculty), Luis Engelke (TU faculty), Ernest Barretta (pianist), Gregory Pascuzzi (composer), Terry Everson, and Dave Ballou (TU faculty)

On Saturday, September 4, 2004, the Baltimore Trumpet Guild held its second biannual trumpet day at Towson University (TU). Terry Everson, professor of trumpet at Boston University, served as the featured artist for the event sponsored in part by ITG, the Maryland State Arts Council, and TU’s Department of Music. Individual sessions included master classes by Everson and Dave Ballou (TU’s newly appointed professor of jazz studies) and performances by a high school trumpet ensemble and the Towson Brass Quintet. The highlight was Everson’s evening recital that commenced with a dazzling rendition of Rodion Shchedrin’s Im Stile von Albéniz. The first half also included excellent performances of an arrangement of Robert Schumann’s Three Romances and Eric Ewazen’s Sonata for Trumpet and Piano. The second half opened with an outstanding performance of Peter Maxwell Davies’s Sonata for Trumpet and Piano. Peter Gilbert’s Epigrams for Solo Trumpet followed, an interesting multi-movement unaccompanied work that includes the use of vibraslap by the trumpet soloist during short rests. Lastly, the recital concluded with a truly memorable performance of Gregory Pascuzzi’s Meditations on a Scottish Hymn Tune. This is a truly engaging work that features sequenced bagpipes and three additional trumpets that both perform ostinato motives and then circle the audience in close proximity while playing the hymn tune Amazing Grace in various keys simultaneously in an aleatoric manner.

Websites:
Terry Everson
Luis Engelke - contact person for Baltimore Trumpet Guild
Towson University Department of Music