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TMers,

Chosen Vale closed last night and I'm at a loss for words to accurately describe the experience. A full report will emerge in time but I'll start by simply listing the faculty and participants who spent 12 amazing days together in Enfield, NH.

Faculty: Stephen Burns, Edward Carroll, Gabriele Cassone, Mark Gould, David Rosenboom (composer-in-residence), Thomas Stevens, Markus Stockhausen

Staff: Rebecca Wilt

Participants: Kyle Ballarta, BFA in progress, CalArts. David Barrett, entering Temple Univ. in fall. Tom Dambly, freelance musician in the SF Bay area. BA, Penn. St. Univ., MA, Univ. of California, San Diego, MFA, Mills College. Giuseppe DiNatalie (Italy), professional musician in Torino. Hunter Eberly, BM in progress, Grand Valley State Univ. Moritz Georg, (Germany), Musikhochschule Nuernberg-Augsburg Meagan Gugliano, BM in progress, Univ. of Iowa. Guido Guidarelli (Italy), Conservatories "G. Verdi”, Milano, and “G. Cantelli", Novara. Matt Harwich, entering CalArts in fall. Brian Hess, BM in progress, Univ. of Miami.
Joseph Klause, BM in progress, New England Conservatory. Rob LePage, BM, Hartt, MM Eastman, Principal Trumpet, Metropolitan Philharmonic (Moscow, RU). Sonja Lindsay (Australia), entering New England Conservatory in fall. Luke MacDonald, professional musician. U.S. Army Band, West Point, NY. Heather Madiera Ni (Luxembourg), professional musician in Paris. MMus, Royal Academy of Music, London. Kevin Maloney, BM E. Carolina Univ, MM Boston Univ. Eric Miller, professional musician. U.S. Army Band, West Point, NY. John Mlynczak , BME Virginia Commonwealth, MM in progress, Louisiana State Univ.
Louis Olds, amateur musician, Oakland, CA. Tapio Paavilainen (Finland), Sibelius Academy, Helsinki. Drake Peterson, entering CalArts in fall. Alex Pride, BM in progress, Cleveland Institute of Music. Stephanie Richards, BM Eastman, MM, McGill, MFA in progress, CalArts. Brandon Ridenour, BM in progress, Juilliard. Daniel Rosenboom, BM Eastman, MM UCLA, MFA in progress, CalArts. Mike Scanza, BM in progress, Indiana Univ. Rachel Simon, BM in progress, Juilliard. Michael Sinicropi, BM in progress, Oberlin Conservatory. Scott Smith, BM in progress, Univ. of Southern California. Lauren Strobel, BM in progress, New England Conservatory. Andreas Stolzfus, BM, MM in progress, McGill Univ. Jean Thean Teoh (Malaysia), BM in progress, Univ. of Iowa. Joshua Tetreault, BM, MM, Univ. of Miami. Matthew Thomas, BM in progress, Rowan Univ. Tristram Williams (Australia), professional musician. Melbourne Symphony Orch. Erik Zbik, BM in progress, Univ. of Miami.

Administrative Assistant Nathaniel Mayfield is a professional musician in Austin, TX. BA, Columbia Univ./Juilliard, Fulbright Scholar in Karlsruhe, Germany.

Sound engineer Travis Garrison holds a Master's degree in Electroacoustic Music from Dartmouth College and a Bachelor's degree in Computer Music from the University of California, San Diego.

All were absolutely amazing. The music making was stunning, level of trumpet playing world-class, and we played for suprisingly large and enthusiastic audiences.
Memorable in every way.

More to follow,
EC