ITF Presenters

Every day at the ITF is jam-packed with recitals, classes, and lectures. This year’s program will feature nearly fifty presenters, representing top teachers, performing artists, and researchers chosen through a juried application process, and traveling to Salt Lake from across the US, and as far away as Belgium, Canada, Mexico, Colombia, and Brazil. Lecture topics range from alto trombone techniques to Jazz and historical research, while concerts will feature everything from chamber ensembles to folk music and experimental techniques. A few highlights from this group include a new method for teaching and playing Brazilian music from Marcos Botelho, Professor of Trombone and Chamber Music at Goiás Federal University (UFG) Brazil, a program of traditional Mexican music with Miguel Salvador Palacios, “Trombone Theater” with James Patrick Crossland, and Bram Meese’s innovative “Slide’n Beats,” the newest program from the Crossbones, combining trombone and dance beats.

Check out the full list of 2023 ITF Presenters below!

CONCERTS

  • The Javier Nero Septet

  • Mirari Brass Quintet

  • TexiCali Trio

    Karen Marston, Deb Scott, & Thomas Nixon

  • Border Bones: Between Borders

    Juan Saldivar Jr, Alejandro López Velarde Avendaño

  • Trombone Brasil

    Alciomar Oliveira & Alla Dadaian

  • Blue Box Brass: The Hobbit and the Elf

    Michelle Flowers & Candace Neal

  • Emerald Brass Quintet

  • Jaime Morales-Matos

  • John Sipher

  • Trombone Theater

    James Patrick Crossland

  • Isrea Butler

  • Cory Mixdorf

  • Duo Time: New Works for Trombone Duo

    William Mann & Jemmie Robertson

  • Performing What You Love: Transcriptions and Arrangements in Recital Programming

    Lee Allen, Brad Kerns, & Allie Su

  • Elysian Trombone Consort: New Works for Trombone Quartet

    Nathan Siler, Timothy Anderson, Bradley Kerns, & Chad Arnow

  • Gateways Brass Collective

    Courtney Jones, Herb Smith, Larry Williams, Jerome Stoverm, & Isrea Butler

  • Searching for Meaning: A Presentation of New Works

    Julia Broome-Robinson & Jenny Young

  • Corona Composing: Santero's New Pieces for Trombone

    Brian Santero

  • Blue Ridge Trombone Quartet

    Nathan Dishman, Cory Mixdorf, Sean McGhee, & Drew Leslie

  • Musica Tradicional Mexicana para Trombón

    Miguel Salvador Palacios, Claudia Herrerías, and Agustín Peñuela

  • Crossbones: Slide'n Beats

    Bram Meese, Lode Smeets, Søren Brassaert, Pieter Vandermeiren, & Peter Delannoye

  • Trombontepec, La Comunidad del Trombón

    Erick Valentín López Hernández, Frida Fernanda Cano Badilla, Jesús Martin Ortega Pérez, Joaquín Mendoza Cruz, Eduardo Márquez Mendoza, Gil Martínez Herrera, Edgardo Jiménez Orozco, Alejandro López Velarde Avendaño, René Ramírez Valle

  • Paraguay, heart of South America: Music from the heart, for trombone

    Fatima Abramo Acuña, trombone

    Alheli Aranda Brilliant, piano

Masterclasses

  • Your Inner Coach vs. Your Inner Critic

    Timothy Conner

  • Introduction to Body Mapping for Trombonists

    Timothy Myers

  • Bel-bone: Brazilian melodic studies and duets

    Marcos Botelho

  • Multiphonics and Deep Listening

    Jen Baker

  • Alto Trombone 101

    Alex Kuntrud

  • Against-the-Grain Playing: Utilizing the Harmonic Glissando on the Jazz Trombone

    Brian Woodbury

  • Trombone Trauma: Resources for Performing, Learning and Life

    Gary Mayne and Jim Albrecht

  • Workshopping the Problem: Methods for Reducing Performance Problems

    Eric Wallace

  • Wire + Bone: Finding Your Voice in Experimental Music

    Aaron Wilson and Brendon Ehinger

  • The Truth About Breathing

    David Vining

Lectures

  • Musician Burnout: Causes, Treatment, and Prevention

    Michelle Flowers

  • Brazilian Popular, Urban, and Folkoric Influence on Repertory for Rrombone and Piano

    Felipe Brito

  • Modern Jazz Trombone Language

    Emmett C. Goods

  • The Trombone Pedagogy of China

    Li Kuang

  • Liston’s Legacy: Making Music and Breaking Gender Norms in the Jazz World for over Fifty Years

    Alexandra Zacharella

  • Performer's Guide to Bass Trumpet

    David L. Binder

  • How to Play Trombone After Suffering a Facial Paralysis

    Robinson Giraldo Villegas