DC Horn Day 2017

The Catholic University of America
Benjamin T. Rome School of Music
Washington, DC

May 7, 2017 (9:30 am-7:00 pm) 

Caldwell Hall
9:30 am-1030 am                Vendor time

Vendors include:

Baltimore Brass Instruments
Ion Balu
Ken Bell                                                        
Brass Arts Unlimited
Chuck Levins’ Washington Music Center
Music & Arts Center
Osmun Brass Instruments
Ken Pope
Siegfried’s Call
                                                                       

10:30 am-11:30 am              Mass Horn Excerpt Reading w/ Nicholas Brown (cond.)

                                                (excerpts TBD…finalized on April 4)

12:00 pm-12:50 pm             Dr. Richard Roberts, “A Progressive Approach to Developing Strong Intonation in your Section”

1:00 pm-1:50 pm                  Erika Binsley, “New Solo Works for Wagner Tuba”

2:00 pm-2:50 pm                 Ian Zook, “Metric Modulation, the Methodical Fix: Utilizing Metric Transfer, Beat Displacement, and Note Grouping to Streamline Practice”

3:15 pm-5:00 pm                  Robert Rearden and Markus Osterlund,“The Art to Auditioning and Live Orchestral Mock-Audition”

5:00 pm                                 Vendors close

5 pm-6 pm                             Break

Ward Recital Hall
6 pm-7 pm                             Closing Recital 

Markus Osterlund and Robert Rearden
(works to include: Bissill, Song of a New World, Bitsch, Variations on a French Song, Brahms, Horn Trio, and Gliere, Romance and Nocturne from the ‘Four Songs for Horn and Piano’)