Trombone
Enjoy traditional jazz? How about the French Alps? How about the two together? The New Hot 5, a traditional Dixieland ensemble I recently joined, will be performing at Festival Jazz en Vercors, a jazz festival held in 6 villages in the French Alps. It runs July 30 through August 7, and the New Hot 5 [...]
Quick little piece of self-congratulatory news: Last Saturday I was fortunate to win the principal trombone position with the Utah Chamber Orchestra/Ballet West. The orchestra is based in Salt Lake City and performs 70 services a year for Ballet West. The 2nd trombone position, which was also open, was won by Steve Hunter, a BYU [...]
After exceeding 2,000 visits for the first time last November (2009), then topping 3,000 in March (2010), the website got more than 4,000 visits for the first time last month. Specifically, there were 4,140 visits from 112 different contries/territories in September. Top 5 countries in visits were US, UK, Canada, Brazil, and Italy. Glad there’s [...]
Not long ago, Money Magazine ranked college professor as #3 among the Best Jobs in America. Now comes this interesting study by Payscale, Inc., showing music as one of the worst-paying college degrees. Not a contradiction, necessarily (there are numerous aspects of both studies that one could discuss), but intriguing to think about!
Over the past several weeks I’ve been assisting a colleague, Dr. Timothy Leishman, BYU Professor of Acoustics, to complete a series of anechoic chamber recordings. The recordings are for a grant from the Institute for Scientific Research in Music and will be used in the study of the acoustic properties of musical instruments. My role [...]
Just looking over March’s Google Analytics (website stats I get once a month) and noticed that the site topped 3,000 visits for the first time. After eclipsing 2,000 for the first time in November, it reached the next thousand pretty quickly. I doubt this trend will continue, but it has been fun to see that [...]
Gabriel Faure’s “Pie Jesu,” arranged for alto trombone and organ, originally recorded for my solo CD, Collage, is now featured on a compilation CD by Tantara Records titled Escape to a Place of Peace and Calm. I don’t have the CD available on this site yet, but it can be purchased directly from Tantara here. [...]