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20 Questions with Brian Hecht
Brian Hecht, a native of Dallas, Texas, was recently awarded the newly-created position of Utility Trombone with the Dallas Symphony Orchestra. He will be coming to Dallas from the Atlanta Symphony Orchestra, where he served as Bass Trombone since September 2013. Prior to joining the Atlanta Symphony, Mr. Hecht held the bass trombone position with …Read now -
20 Questions with Ellen Dinwiddie Smith
Ellen Dinwiddie Smith has been a member of the Minnesota Orchestra since 1993 and currently serves as third horn. Smith is Adjunct Professor of Horn at the University of Minnesota and has served as Young-Artist-Program faculty at the Curtis Institute of Music Summerfest since 2015. She was the founding Artistic Director of the Colonial Chamber Series (2006-2017) and organized …Read now -
20 Questions with James Gourlay
James Gourlay is a Tuba virtuoso, Artistic & General Director of the River City Brass Band, newly appointed Director of Bands at Duquesne University’s Mary Pappert School of Music and all-around renaissance man. Gourlay was born in Scotland, where, at the age of ten, he was “volunteered” to play in his school brass band. Being …Read now -
20 Questions with William Gerlach
William Gerlach began his position as principal trumpet with the National Symphony Orchestra in the 2014–2015 season. Growing up in Menomonee Falls, WI, he started playing trumpet when it was time to join the 6th grade band. William (Billy) earned his undergraduate degree at Indiana University under the instruction of John Rommel. During his time …Read now -
20 Questions with Rebecca Cherian
Rebecca Cherian was awarded the position of co-principal trombone of the Pittsburgh Symphony Orchestra by Lorin Maazel in 1989, and has been a trombone instructor at Carnegie Mellon University since 1993. Cherian was a founding member of the International Women’s Brass Conference in 1994 and served as the IWBC Newsletter Editor for five years. A …Read now -
Composer Spotlight: Stacy Garrop
Ms. Garrop is a full-time freelance composer living in the Chicago area. She served as the first Emerging Opera Composer of Chicago Opera Theater’s Vanguard Program (2018-2020). She also held a 3-year composer-in-residence position with the Champaign-Urbana Symphony Orchestra (2016-2019). Garrop has received numerous awards and grants including an Arts and Letters Award in Music from the American Academy …Read now -
20 Questions with Jeff Scott
Jeff Scott is the Associate Professor of Horn at the Oberlin Conservatory of Music, hornist of the Imani Winds, a former member of the Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater and Dance Theater of Harlem orchestras and has performed numerous times with the Jazz at Lincoln Center Orchestra under the direction of Wynton Marsalis. Additionally, Mr. …Read now -
Composer Spotlight: Kenneth Amis
Mr. Amis took up the tuba in high school in his home country of Bermuda. A Suite for Bass Tuba, composed when he was only fifteen, marked his first published work. A year later, at age sixteen, he enrolled in Boston University where he majored in composition. Afterwards he received his master’s degree in composition …Read now
