IV. Music School Forum Trombone

November, 2007, 23rd  - 25th

The University of Music in Detmold and Internationale Posaunenvereinigung are organizing the IV. Music School Forum Trombone with spiritual assistance of Association of Music Schools of Germany.

Main connecting thread of this project is the improvement of instrumental lessons in subject of trombone at music schools in interchange with teaching staff of univerisities of music in Europe.

Standing on top are:

• New lesson methods for instruction of beginners and adults and the expectation towards applicants of studies.
• Lectures and informations will show new lesson techniques for beginners and instrumental methods. The todays themes about the Yamaha compact trombone or the alto trombone as an instrument for beginning childs will get discussed.
• At the same time some professors will show their opinion about the lessons of beginners and their expectation towards beginners of studies and young students. This will get discussed.
• The integration of instrumental lessons in brass classes at public schools will be treated.

New positions of knowledge in teaching methodology

• Kristian Steenstrup (Professor of Trumpet, Royal Academy of Music, Aarhus, Dänemark) will introduce his book „Teaching Brass“ which goes for the most funded scientific book in brass didactics.
• The new teaching curriculum of Association of Music Schools in Germany will be introduced and discussed.

Lessons with new media – possibilities and prospects

• Main thread is the competence in media which is necessary in usual and especially in new media and the integration in  the instrumental lessons. The software „SmartMusic“ will get intrduced , demonstrated and used in various workshops.

Practical body knowledge in kind of Institut of Lichtenberg
(Gisela Rohmert)

• „A very extended understanding of the relations between our sensoric nervous system and musical sound leads to a new approach in vocal and instrumental teaching theory“. This is the approach of body experience which shall be transferred to instrumental playing through singing in functional kind. There will be lectures in theory and classes in practice.  

Workshops

• Fundamental sound production (Prof. David Bruchez)
• New media and exemples  in „SmartMusic“/ Play- Along
• Body experience in the kind of Lichtenberg

Concerts

• Big Trombone Ensemble of trombone classes from Universities of Music Hannover and Detmold and Soloists (Professors of Hannover and Detmold)
• Introducing the repertory of entrance examinations in a concert demonstration
• Concert of childrens in subject area of conveyance of music

Lecturers

• Prof. David Bruchez- Lalli (University of Music Detmold, Tonhalle Zürich)
• Josef Gebker (Instrumental teacher, as manager of IPV)
• Prof. Jonas Bylund ( University of Music and Theatre Hannover)
• Prof. Kristian Steenstrup (Royal Academy of Music Aarhus, Denmark)
• Prof. Reinhild Spiekermann (University of Music Detmold, Instrumental Didactics)
• Prof. Dr. Ernst Klaus Schneider (Univ. o. Music Detmold) und HfM- Brassensemble
• Gisela Rohmert, (Teacher of Voice, developer of Lichtenberg method) and
  Martin Landzettel (Teacher and Director of Lichtenberg Institute)
• Prof. Ludwig Nuss (Radio Bigband Cologne, University of Music "Hanns Eisler", Berlin, and Vice President of IPV)
• Klaus Ernst (Teacher of Didactics in Brass at University of Music Detmold)
• Prof. Gerhard Wolf (University of Music of Trossingen, Academy of Music Villingen-Schwenningen)
• Klaus-Jürgen Weber, Curriculi of Ass. of German Music Schools
• Reinhold Degenhart (Polymnia Press)
• Trombone Ensemble of Trombone Classes of Hannover and Detmold

Organizers

• University of Music, Detmold
• Internationale Posaunenvereinigung e.V. (IPV),
  Affiliate Association of ITA
• Association of Music Schools in Germany
  (with spiritual assistance)