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I’ve just returned from the N.E. workshop in Delaware. It was quite a fun show with amazing talent everywhere!
This week I head off to Oklahoma, and next week to Mississippi! Along the way I’ve picked up a lot of other horns to sell, both new and used.
If you can’t make it to the shows try to come by and see them in April here.
New additions not yet posted include:
Karl Pituch’s Paxman Triple
Finke Americus
3 Elkhart 8D’s
Knopf double
and LOTS more. Remember, most of these horns sell without ever making it to the website – so if you want to find a particular make email your wishes to me and I’ll contact you when I receive one!

I expect to see ALL of you at the symposium this year. Next year it’s in Australia, so you won’t have another chance until 2011~!
So, here’s the link sign up, and have FUN. Where else do you get a chance to hear hornists from all over the world, and then get to rub elbows with them at a local pub. It truly is a fun time.
If there are specific horns you’d like to try out at the symposium let me know before the end of the day on SATURDAY! I’ll bring them just for you.

Dates are June 2nd-7th at Western Illinois University. Please note that during that week, and the week following the shop will be closed (from June 1st – June 14th).

IMPROVISATION WORKSHOP FOR HORN PLAYERS

Wednesday to Sunday, July 15-19, 2009
Heath, Franklin County, Massachusetts

with

John Clark, Jeffrey Agrell and Evan Mazunik
special guest artist: David Amram

Saturday, May 23 – Don’t miss this invaluable day-long workshop for high school brass players at New England Conservatory. For a single fee of only $50, participants get a full day of clinics • classes • side-by-side reading sessions with NEC’s Boston Symphony Orchestra faculty and other top brass players. No audition required! Click HERE for the link

Graduate Studies in
HORN
at the University of Massachusetts

Assistantships available:
Graduate teaching assistantships are available that provide a stipend for teaching and performance duties assigned by the department. Hornists are assigned to play in the Graduate Brass Quintet or the Graduate Woodwind Quintet as 5 hours of the 10-hour assistantship. During the 2009-2010 academic year the stipend is $7,258 for ten hours of work per week for the full 38-week academic year. The stipend carries with it tuition remission and partial waivers of curriculum and health fees. The total award for 2009-2010 is worth $18,590 (for out-of-state students). Students are responsible for one-time only graduate entering fee of $360 and $700 in student senate and service fees each year. Applicants wishing to be considered for a teaching assistantship should indicate that on the Graduate School Admission Application.
For more information, visit our website at www.umass.edu/horn and www.umass.edu/music and contact:

Prof. Laura Klock
Professor of Horn
Department of Music and Dance
University of Massachusetts
Amherst, MA 01003
413 545-6052 (school) or 413 549-6784 (home)
laklock@music.umass.edu

NEW BAND STARTING – Auditions coming up:
My name is Elizabeth. For my Girl Scout Gold Award project I am starting a concert band for high school musicians who play at about the senior district level. There are many levels of orchestras around, but no place for serious band students, except for MYWE, and that is only for the most outstanding performers. My band will help fill this void. The band will start in September.
Auditions are June 5th and 6th, spots are filling so students should sign up soon!
The Conductor is Dr. David Neves. Further info at www.TuttiWindEnsemble.com.
Please help me by telling your students and any other music teachers you know about this fantastic opportunity. Feel free to forward this email and the attached flyer.
If you have any questions please contact me. You can reach me at manager@tuttiwindensemble.com or at 781-449-5652.

Thank you very much for your help. Teacher encouragement seems to be the best way to help students become interested in participating in additional musical groups.

Sincerely,
Elizabeth Doyle

ps- a year long Senior District level band at only $250 – what a deal!

I’ll be posting a LOT of new and used horns over the next few days – and a few ‘phone’ specials (cases and horns)
Also, I’m looking forward to Macomb – if you have any requests for items for me to bring let me know NOW so I can order them!
See you there.

For those of you attending the Denver Symposium – there is a ‘Puzzle’ that you will find in the Symposium Program. Finish the Puzzle – and bring it by for a free bottle of Fat Cat Valve Oil! The first 5 get a free Hat (it’s really cool… in a non-geeky horn way!).
After the symposium is over I’ll find a way to post the puzzle here on the site (alas, the free oil will be gone by then though…).
Ken

IMPROVISATION WORKSHOP FOR HORN PLAYERS
Friday July 11th to Sunday July 13th, 2008
Heath, Franklin County, Massachusetts
with
John Clark and Jeffrey Agrell

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The Second Annual Improvisation Workshop for Horn Players will be held
July 2008 in the rural and scenic town of Heath, located in northwestern Massachusetts. The event will be directed by John Clark and Jeff Agrell.
The cost of the workshop is $200 and enrollment will be limited to 25 participants. (The fee includes lunch on Saturday and Sunday.)

The workshop will provide an introduction to improvisation, both jazz (Clark) and non-jazz (Agrell), for traditionally trained horn players. It is open to all horn players and no improvisation experience is necessary. Planned for each day are workshop sessions plus informal “concerts.” A preliminary outline of the schedule is HERE (available April 11th) so check back often to see what has been added. We would also like you to enjoy the beauty of the area, and we are planning some (optional) “fun” events as well.

John Clark is Horn professor at SUNY Purchase and author of “Exercises for Jazz French Horn.” He will lead the jazz sessions. These will alternate with the non-jazz sessions led by Jeff Agrell and Evan Mazunik. Jeff is Horn professor at the University of Iowa and author of “Improvisation Games for Classical Musicians.” Evan is a well-known improvising pianist and Soundpainting conductor.

We’re looking forward to having the workshop in Heath. Summer is the perfect time to visit this small Massachusetts “hilltown” just south of Vermont.

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For more details, please email
John Clark (john@hmmusic.com) or
Jeff Agrell (jeffrey-agrell@uiowa.edu).

More detailed information will be posted here soon.
Check back often for updates!

The Eli Epstein Horn Intensive is an experiential workshop for advanced French Horn students, ages 16 and up. This six-day intensive, runs from June 9 through June 14.
More information is at this link: Eli Epstein’s Horn Intensive!