2019 ITG Officer and Board Election Results
Vice-President/President-Elect
Jason Bergman
Secretary
Elisa Koehler
Board of Directors
Jennifer Dearden
Jason Dovel
Christopher Moore
Nadje Noordhuis
Mary Thornton
Brian Walker
John Foster (2 year replacement for Bergman)
Amy Schendel (2 year replacement for Koehler)
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The University of Louisville International Trumpet Guild Chapter held its annual Trumpet Day(s) event on April 12 and 13, 2019, at the University Of Louisville School Of Music. The featured guest artist for this year was Yamaha Performing Artist, Rex Richardson. Richardson taught several masterclasses and gave a truly memorable performance with the Brass Band of Louisville, directed by Jason Cumberledge.
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Organized by Edda Silvestri's AIMART Academy and its trumpet lecturer Giuliano Sommerhalder as artistic director, the second edition of the Girolamo Fantini International Trumpet Competition took place in the time-honored palazzi of the Vatican's Pontifical Institute of Sacred Music and of the Embassy of Hungary in Rome from February 17-24, 2019, with BNL-Paribas and HIND SpA as main sponsors.
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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
