This year’s exciting kickoff to International Trombone Week is now available in the ITA video collection. Alex Iles guides us through his daily routines and shares tips and encourages for trombone players at all levels. The video is available to the whole universe to watch!
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ITW’s 20th Anniversary was April 16-23, 2023. Thank you for celebrating the trombone with us during last month’s International Trombone Week. Our community of artists, organizers, and resource builders created amazing opportunities and welcoming spaces for all. We enjoyed livestreams, multi-day workshops, student recitals, world premieres, jazz radio features, video compilations, warm-ups for the universe, and more. There’s still time to let us know how you celebrated… and you might appear on the infamous ITW map.
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Jump on this amazing opportunity and warm-up with one of the best trombone players in the world. Alex Iles will kick off the 20th Anniversary of International Trombone Week with community warm-up.
It’s quick and easy to register. Don’t wait: if you’re registered and “in the Zoom room” you’ll receive a copy of Alex’s warm-up.
Thank you for your generosity, Alex!
If you have performed Fanfare for the World, please publish your video and send us the link. We’d like to add you to the public collection.
If you haven’t performed this newly-released piece yet, what are you waiting for? Fanfare for the World is a new 50-second fanfare celebrating ITA’s 50th and ITW’s 20th anniversaries. We invite you to download and play it.
On April 16 we will kick off the International Trombone Week with an online gathering led by the incomparable Alex Iles!
Alex will share his warmup routine and discuss trombone fundamentals. We plan to shake the universe with a resonant B-flat we create together from all over the world! Participants will receive a copy of Alex’s warmup during the session.
The session is free, and open for anyone interested; young, old, professionals, students – it does not matter! The only thing you need to do is to register.
Tonight! April 6, 2023: Director Nathaniel Brickens and The University of Texas at Austin’s Trombone Choir welcome special guests Megumi Kanda, Principal Trombone of the Milwaukee Symphony Orchestra, and Marcia Medrano of the Escuela Superior de Música (ESM) and the Facultad de Música de la UNAM (FaM) in Mexico City.
Prelude music will be provided by trombonists from local high schools including Bowie HS, Cedar Park HS, Dripping Springs HS, Reagan HS (San Antonio), Vandegrift HS, Walsh MS, McNeil HS, and Leander HS.
A livestream will be available for everyone to enjoy beginning at 7:30pm (Austin, TX time).
This wonderful concert is a celebration of International Trombone Week’s 20th Anniversary! Please take a moment now to add your trombone celebration or resource to our events listing.
ITW may be April 16-23, 2023 (officially) but we celebrate all month… and things are certainly in high gear. We don’t want you to be left out so please submit your April event. It’s quick and easy. We will do our best to get you on the list and the map (click on the map image) quickly. Thank you.
The composers submitted their entries… and the judges deliberated. It’s official:
The winner of the ITA’s 50-Second Fanfare Composition Contest is… Fanfare for the World!
Congratulations to composer David Miller! David’s exciting new work awaits you. Trombone ensembles are invited to download the parts and share their own recordings with the world.
Let’s celebrate 50 years of the ITA… and 20 years of International Trombone Week… together!
Read more and get your parts here>>
Voting on the ballot for the 2023-2026 ITA Officers and Board of Advisors is now closed and results have been tabulated. The ITA Standing Committee on Governance is honored to report to you the elected 2023-2026 ITA Officers and Board of Advisors. The three-year term for the below slate of officers and advisors will start at the next ITA Annual General Meeting in summer July 2023.
Thank you to our current Officers and Board of Advisors for their leadership and contributions to the Association for the past 3 years. Also, thank you to each of the candidates that appeared on the ballot and were willing to serve if elected.
On Sunday December 11, 4 PM US Eastern Time (22:00 CET) we will celebrate ITA’s 50th anniversary with a Zoom session looking back on the early years of ITA. When and how did ITA start? And how has the organization developed into what it is today? The first ITA President Tom Everett will tell us about the early years, Stuart Dempster will discuss the various commissions he inspired. Other guests will be Joe Alessi, Irvin L Wagner, Ruben Carughi, Phil Wilson and many more. Come, join us!
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