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Two Words For Fans Of the Trumpet: Chosen Vale

For the next two weeks, the Upper Valley is the place to be if you’re a trumpeter or a fan of trumpet music.

The Chosen Vale International Trumpet Seminar, which kicks off Monday and runs through June 27 at the Enfield Shaker Village, is becoming one of the premiere music programs in the world, said Edward Carroll, who teaches at Dartmouth College and is the founder and director of The Center for Advanced Musical Studies, the sponsor of the event.

Not only does the seminar draw some of the top names in music as faculty, it also brings to the area 43 of the top trumpet students from around the United States and from as far away as Japan, Thailand and Australia.

Faculty members and students are the featured performers at a series of four free public concerts during the seminar. Read More »

2008 Chosen Vale International Trumpet Seminar

The third session of the Chosen Vale International Trumpet Seminar convened in Enfield, New Hampshire from June 16–28, 2008. The seminar was presented by the Center for Advanced Musical Studies and received generous support from the California Institute of the Arts (CalArts) and the Yamaha Corporation of America.

The 2008 session featured the same faculty from the first two years. Director Edward Carroll was joined by Gabriele Cassone, Mark Gould, and Stephen Burns the first week. Thomas Stevens and Markus Stockhausen joined the second week, and David Rosenboom was there as Composer-in-Residence for both weeks. Read More…

Gathering 37 talented trumpet players from prestigious musical schools like Julliard, Eastman and the Boston Conservatory for two weeks of collaboration would seem a recipe for musical perfection to most people. But not to Edward Carroll, director of the Chosen Vale International Trumpet Seminar, which begins June 16 at the Shaker Village Museum in Enfield.

The seminar attracts talent from all over the world to focus on a single maxim – any piece of music, no matter how sublime, can be improved. Read More…