The 2007 Chosen Vale International Trumpet Seminar

Thirty-five participants, representing Australia, Singapore, Italy, Spain, Luxembourg, Holland, Canada and the United States joined faculty members Stephen Burns, Edward Carroll, Gabriele Cassone, Mark Gould, David Rosenboom (composer-in-residence), Thomas Stevens, and Markus Stockhausen at the second annual Chosen Vale International Trumpet Seminar, June 18-30, 2007 at the Enfield Shaker Museum in Enfield, New Hampshire. The seminar was presented by the Center for Advanced Musical Studies and was sponsored, in part, by the California Institute of the Arts (CalArts) and the Yamaha Corporation of America. Read More…

Chosen Vale Trumpet Seminar Reflects on 2006, Prepares for 2007

Ed Carroll, founder of the Chosen Vale International Trumpet Seminar (a program of The Center for Advanced Musical Studies), has forwarded an article about last year’s seminar, where thirty-seven trumpet players representing nine countries convened for a two-week immersion in trumpet music.

“Chosen Vale offers advanced music students – in this case trumpet players – the opportunity to study, play, and live together, with an internationally known faculty,” explains Carroll.

Chosen Vale’s focus is on trumpet playing but its students are not just there to perfect their fingering and breathing techniques. The Chosen Vale faculty spent a lot of time coaching seminar participants on what it means to be a musician and what it takes to create art. Read More…

Chosen Vale International Trumpet Seminar

The Center for Advanced Musical Studies has announced the inaugural Chosen Vale International Trumpet Seminar, which will be held from June 19th through July 1st, 2006 at the historic Enfield Shaker Museum in Enfield, New Hampshire (USA). Read More…