June 14 – 26, 2010
Offering a unique and vital series of trumpeting/musical experiences, from the exploration of the natural trumpet, learning how to structure free improvisation, and first performances of important new compositions, the Chosen Vale International Trumpet Seminar is a place where participants are challenged to look beyond what he or she has already studied and grow in unexpected, musical ways. Participants are asked to work outside their own self-defined “comfort zone”, to take new risks, and to accept personal responsibility for their technical and musical growth. Selected participants will perform with faculty members in three formal concerts in the Mary Keene Chapel as well as present solo and mixed trumpet ensemble music throughout the region.
“It is absolutely imperative that we find ways to reconcile professional standards with creative, independent thinking”
-Edward Carroll
Faculty:
Stephen Burns
Edward Carroll
Gabriele Cassone
Mark Gould
Håkan Hardenberger
Thomas Stevens
Tristram Williams
Special guest:
Bob Malone
Staff:
Rebecca Wilt, Collaborative Pianist
Trent Austin, Assistant to the Director
Traditional masterclasses (which focus on repertoire nominated in advance by each participant) are presented alongside chamber music, natural trumpet class, individual tutorials (presented “Paris Conservatory Style” with others in attendance), workshops on a wide variety of relevant contemporary and pedagogical topics, and yoga class.
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. 
