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Ohio University Trombone Day 2021
Saturday, january 30 at Ohio University School of Music
featuring
Megumi Kanda
Principal Trombone of the Milwaukee symphony
Jason sulliman
Troy university
It is the most wonderful time of the year! Another great Ohio University Trombone Day is coming up soon. I hope you can join us!
Although we are living on different times, Ohio University Trombone Day 2021 will still be a full day of trombone-related activities, but this time virtually on Saturday, January 30th. Trombone Day will include a group warm-up, large master classes, small group classes and a final concert. I am excited to announce that our featured artist will be incomparable Megumi Kanda. Trombone players and brass enthusiasts of all levels and backgrounds are welcome. High school and college students are strongly encouraged to participate. Stay tuned for more information soon. Feel free to contact me at [email protected] if you have any questions. Lucas Borges Associate Professor of Trombone, Ohio University Press HERE for FREE Registration: Schedule here:
D January 30, 2021
ate:Time: 9am - 5pm Schedule: TBA Location (Online virtually):
Dr. Jason Sulliman is Assistant Professor of Trombone at Troy
University and Trombone Tutor for the North American Brass Band Summer School as part of the Royal Nova Scotia International Tattoo in Halifax, Nova Scotia. Additionally Jason is one of the founders and organizers of the International Trombone Hang, which is an online collaborative offering of clinics and master classes from the world’s leading teachers and performers of trombone. Previous teaching positions include the University of North Alabama and Vincennes University in Vincennes, Indiana. He earned his DM in Brass Pedagogy from Indiana University where he is also finishing a Master’s degree in Kinesiology. Dr. Sulliman has given hundreds of clinics, master classes, and presentations based on his research combining the disciplines of brass pedagogy, motor learning, and cognitive science and introducing a 21st-century approach to brass pedagogy. Dr. Sulliman also holds master’s degrees in conducting and performance from the University of New Mexico and a Bachelor’s degree in performance from the University of Massachusetts. Jason is the current bass trombonist for the Meridian Symphony and is an active freelancer with several orchestras throughout the Southern region of the United States. His performance experience includes ensembles such as the Indianapolis Symphony, the New Mexico Symphony, the Alabama Symphony, and the Dallas Brass Quintet. Jason was involved with the Tony and Emmy Award-winning Broadway show, “Blast!” as a soloist, conductor, and music manager and over a 15-year period performed over two thousand shows with the company. Jason is proud to be an M & W Custom Trombone artist. More information can be found at https://www.jasonsulliman.com/ |
Megumi Kanda, Principal Trombone of the Milwaukee Symphony Orchestra since 2002, is an internationally acclaimed performer, teacher, and author.
Megumi has performed as a soloist across the United States, Europe and Asia, including with the Milwaukee Symphony Orchestra, Pershing’s Own Army Band, the US Army Field Band, and the Prague Chamber Orchestra. She has commissioned and/or premiered works of numerous composers, including those of Amy Riebs Mills, Bruce Stark, and Geoffrey Gordon. She has been a featured guest artist at numerous trombone workshops and festivals, including the International Trombone Festival and the American Trombone Workshop. Megumi has appeared as guest faculty at numerous music institutions, including the New World Symphony, National Youth Orchestra, and Interlochen Arts Academy, and has given master classes and recitals at many colleges and conservatories across the US and Japan. In April 2006, Megumi was recognized by the Arion Foundation in Tokyo, Japan as one of the most influential Japanese classical artists. She has also received a Certificate of Commendation from the Consul General of Japan at Chicago in recognition for distinguished service contributing to the friendship between the United States and Japan. Megumi was named a 2017 Woman of Influence in the category of education by the Milwaukee Business Journal. In 2020, she was named the recipient of the International Trombone Association Award, which recognizes the highest level of creative and artistic output, the first female winner of this award in its history. Megumi’s first book, The One Hundred, a collection of orchestral trombone excerpts with accompanying commentary, was published in August 2015 and is a resource widely used by aspiring young trombonists around the world. As a JVC/Victor Entertainment artist, Megumi has recorded three solo albums: Amazing Grace, Gloria, and Mona Lisa. She also can be heard on Magnifique Live, a live recording of Megumi and other JVC artists in the August 2005 performance at Takemitsu Hall in Tokyo’s Opera City. A native of Tokyo, Japan, Megumi began to play the trombone at age ten and continued her studies at the prestigious Toho High School of Music, where she studied with Sumio Miwa, formerly of the NHK Symphony. At age fifteen, she became the youngest player ever to be named as one of the top ten trombonists at the Japanese Wind and Percussion Competition. Two years later she won the Grand Prize in the National Competition for Solo Trombone and won best soloist prize upon graduation from the Toho High School of Music. Megumi came to the United States in 1994, and received her Bachelor of Music degree from the Cleveland Institute of Music where she studied with James DeSano, former Principal Trombone of the Cleveland Orchestra. Prior to joining the Milwaukee Symphony she served as Principal Trombonist of the Albany Symphony Orchestra, as a member of the Rochester Philharmonic Orchestra, and on the faculty of the Eastman School of Music Community Education Division. Megumi is proud to be a Greenhoe clinician and performs on a Greenhoe trombone. An avid gardener, Megumi was chosen to participate in the 2013 Garden Tour in Shorewood, WI. She also enjoys going to Milwaukee Brewers games and taking walks with her husband Dietrich Hemann and sons Hans, Max and Lukas. Supported by: |