The January 2022 issue of the ITA Journal is now available online in the members-only section. Print copies will mail in the second half of January and will reach members with print memberships soon after. Featured in the January issue are, among others:

Life Should be a Trombone (a poem)
by Edward Gadrix

A Fresh Look at Mozart’s Tuba Mirum
by Douglas Yeo

Dirk Amrein | No Limits
by Dr. Brett Baker

Natalie’s World
by Kirsten Lies-Warfield

Natalie Cressman’s Solo on “That Kind”
by Kirsten Lies-Warfield and Antonio J. Garcia

Plus
General News,The President’s Column, Orchestral Sectional, Wellness Note, Perspectives on Longevity, Philosophies, Practices, and Pedagogies of Performing Professionals, Pedagogy Corner, Audio/Video/Literature Reviews and much more.

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Unfortunately we have been forced to postpone Sunday’s Zoom Session with Ben van Dijk due to personal reasons. We will reschedule and announce new date as soon as possible. The featured artist for the February Zoom Session will be announced very soon, so keep your eyes open.

Nick Finzer, New York City based jazz trombonist and composer, invites trombonists to join these competitions:

• The Carl Fontana Jazz Trombone Competition is for trombone players aged 22 years and under. Review the rules and guidelines.
• The J.J. Johnson Jazz Trombone Competition is for trombone players aged 25 years and under. Review the rules and guidelines.

 

Tony Baker, University of North Texas, introduces the Larry Wiehe Tenor Trombone Competition:

We invite trombonists, age 23 and under, to participate! Review the rules and guidelines here.

Brandt Attema, Karlsruhe (Germany) and The Hague (Netherlands) Conservatoires, introduces the George Roberts Bass Trombone Competition.

We invite trombonists, age 20 and under, to participate! Visit the competition’s official page to learn more, review the competition rules and recording guidelines, and be inspired by Mr. Attema’s fantastic performance of the Allegro Maestoso (Jan Koetsier).

Megumi Kanda, Milwaukee Symphony Orchestra, introduces the ITA Alto Trombone Competition:

We invite trombonists, age 25 and under, to participate! Review the rules and guidelines here.

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After offering print reviews of new material for more than forty years in the International Trombone Association Journal, we are excited to expand to the world wide web via the ITA website www.trombone.net. Expanding to the internet offers advantages and solves growing problems as media capability and expectations of readers grow and change.

The volume of literature we handle has outgrown our ability to publish reviews in a timely fashion in the quarterly print journal. Our online column enables us to publish reviews within about three months of receipt. This is a great advancement that brings quality evaluation of new material much closer to its release date.

Our online column is searchable by everyone, not just ITA members, introducing our instrument and its repertoire to everyone from researchers to surfers.

Limits of space are always a concern in the print column. Not so online where reviewers express their evaluations and opinions free of word counts and other space saving limitations.

The archives can be found under the Journal tab in the navigation menu.

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