25th Anniversary • 1975 - 2000 ITG 2000 Conference • May 24

International Trumpet Guild

A Quarter Century of Achievement

25th Anniversary • 1975 - 2000

ITG 2000 Conference • May 24 - 27, 2000

Conservatory of MusicPurchase CollegeState University of New YorkPurchase, New York

PresidentJames OlcottDepartment of MusicMiami University Oxford, OH 45056Fax: [email protected]

Vice PresidentVincent DiMartinoMusic DepartmentCentre CollegeDanville, KY 40422 [email protected]

SecretaryJeffrey PiperDepartment of MusicUniversity of New MexicoAlbuquerque, NM [email protected]

TreasurerDavid C. Jones241 East Main Street #247Westfield, MA 01086-1633 USAFax: [email protected]

Past PresidentKim DunnickSchool of MusicIthaca College953 Danby Road Ithaca, NY 14850Fax: [email protected]

BOARD OF DIRECTORSMichael Anderson, Michael Caldwell, Frank Campos,Leonard Candelaria, Stephen Chenette, Joyce Davis,Timofei Dokshizer, Jon Faddis, Laurie Frink, Amy Gilreath, Bryan Goff, Frank Kaderabek,William Pfund, Anatoly Selianin,Alan Siebert, Nailson Simões,Arthur Vanderhoeft, John Wallace

ITG EXECUTIVE STAFFAffiliate Chapter CoordinatorLarry JohansenMusic Department California Baptist College 8432 Magnolia, Riverside, CA [email protected]

Director of Public RelationsP. Bradley UlrichWestern Carolina UniversityMusic DepartmentCullowhee, NC [email protected]

General CounselMark HaynieHaynie, Rake and RepassDallas,TX

International Membership CoordinatorBengt EklundKantyxegatan 15, S-421 47 V Frolunda, [email protected]

Membership Development and Retention CoordinatorDel LyrenDepartment of MusicBemidji State University500 Birchmont Dr. NEBemidji, MN 56601-2669Fax: [email protected]

ITG Web Site DirectorsMichael Anderson, Executive [email protected]

Michael [email protected]

James [email protected]

ITG JournalMichael Caldwell, [email protected]

Officers, Board, & Staff

International Trumpet Guild 25th Anniversary

© 2000 International Trumpet Guild

International Trumpet Guild 25th Anniversary • 1

1Number of honorary lifetime members of the ITG Board of Directors (Timofei Dokshizer)

2• Number of founders of ITG (Charles Gorham and Robert Nagel)

• Number of ITG Award of Merit recipients

3Number of treasurers that have served ITG in the first 25 years

(Gordon Mathie, Bryan Goff, David Jones)

4• Number of valves on Martin Lessen’s new “Compensating Trumpet,” demonstrated by Barb Butler

and Charles Geyer at the 1983 conference in Ithaca, New York• Number of pages in ITG’s first newsletter (1975)

5• Number of dollars for a student membership in the first year of ITG

(professional membership cost $10.00)

10• Number of CDs (plus one LP) produced by ITG to give to its membership

12• Number of presidents of ITG, to date

15• Number of ITG Honorary Awards (ITG’s highest honor) conferred

18• Number of commercial exhibitors at the first ITG conference, Bloomington, Indiana, 1995

24Number of trumpet performers in the first Festival of Trumpets concert in

Champaign/Urbana, Illinois, 1977

40• Number of commercial exhibitors at the 1999 ITG conference in Richmond,Virginia

72• Number of people who have served on the ITG Board of Directors

116• Number of trumpet performers in the Festival of Trumpets concert

in Lexington, Kentucky, 1998

132• Number of pages in the October 1999 ITG Journal (plus 10 pages of advertisements)

600• Membership number of “Cat”Anderson, who joined after his concert at the

first ITG Conference in Bloomington, Indiana, 1975

1974• Year that invitations to become charter members of ITG were

sent to trumpeters around the world

7,000• Number of dollars for the first prize-winner in the year 2000

Ellsworth Smith International Trumpet Solo Competition


A QuarterCentury ofAchievementA look back at some of the people, projects,

and events of the International Trumpet

Guild during its first 25 years

by Kim Dunnick, Past President

The December 1974 issue of TheInstrumentalist carried an article titled“The InternationalBrass Society,” writ-ten by tubist HarveyPhillips. In the arti-cle,touting an inter-national associationfor all brass instru-mentalists,Phillips mentioned theInternational HornSociety,theInternationalTrombone Association,and the TubistsUniversal Brotherhood Association,fol-lowed by the statement: “At this writing,there is no official organization repre-senting the trumpet. This matter will beresolved in the near future,since RobertNagel of Yale University and CharlesGorham of Indiana University haveagreed to do the initial organizationalwork necessary to establish a society orguild of trumpet players.”

Clockwise from top left: The panel of judges for the firstVassily Brandt International Trumpet Solo Competition,Saratov, Russia, 1996; ITG's first elected officers: DavidBaldwin, secretary; Clifford Lillya, vice president; boardmember Ward Cole; Lloyd Geisler, president; GordonMathie, treasurer; and board member Thomas Stevens. Thisphoto was taken in Montreux, Switzerland, at the firstInternational Brass Congress in 1975; the bicycle band, oneof the highlights of the outdoor festival concert at theRotterdam ITG conference in 1992; Saratov Conservatory,Saratov, Russia; Philadelphia Orchestra principal trumpetFrank Kaderabek performs with pianist Walter Cosand atthe Tempe, Arizona, conference in 1979; famous cornetsoloist Jimmy Burke prepares for his lecture/performanceat the 1981 conference in Boulder, Colorado, in June 1981;well-known jazz artist Clark Terry, who has performed atseveral of the annual conferences

ITGs first president(1975-1977) Lloyd Geisler


It was, in fact, at Phillips’s urging that

Gorham and Nagel met for several days

during the fall of 1974 at Phillips’s home

in Bloomington, Indiana, with the express

purpose of forming an organization of trum-

peters to parallel those of the horn, trom-

bone, and tuba/euphonium. Phillips’s interest

in the establishment of an international trum-

pet organization was largely so all brass play-

ers would have organized representation in

the International Brass Society. Gorham and

Nagel, however, saw the tremendous potential

of thousands of trumpeters pooling their

energies, resources, and ideas for the advance-

ment of the instrument and its music, scholar-

ship, and performance.The name of the orga-

nization, the International Trumpet Guild, was

suggested by Phillips. It made good sense for

two reasons. First, the acronym ITG did not

duplicate that of any other brass organization;

and second, trumpeters have an important

historic legacy in the trumpet and kettledrum

guilds of the Baroque era.

For some reason, the trumpet was the

last of the brass instruments to have an orga-

nization for its players.The horn players set

the precedent, forming the International

Horn Society (IHS) in

1970, followed by the

tubists and euphonium

players with the

Tubists Universal

Brotherhood

Association (TUBA).

The trombonists start-

ed the International

Trombone Association

(ITA) in

1972.

However,

Gorham and Nagel correctly sus-

pected that there were more

trumpeters than any other brass

instrumentalists, and that a trum-

pet organization had the poten-

tial to be the largest group of all.

This has proven to be quite true.

Barely eight months after the fall

of 1974, the first invitations to

join the new trumpet organiza-

tion were sent out. In May of 1975, at

the completion of the first ITG conference,

the new trumpet orga-

nization had amassed

over 600 members

and was growing

steadily.Ten years later

membership had sur-

passed 3,000, with a

growing number of

members from coun-

tries other than the

United States.Today

the International

4 • International Trumpet Guild 25th Anniversary

ITG's fourth president, Charles Gorham, “straightens out”

Doc Severinsen’s embouchure backstage during the ITG

conference in Lexington, Kentucky, 1982

David Hickman,second ITG president(1977-1979)

Don Whitaker,third ITG president (1979-1981)


Trumpet Guild membership num-

bers over 6,000, the largest member-

ship of the brass organizations.

More than 60 other countries are

represented, as well as every state

in the United States.

During the meetings

Gorham and Nagel had

in the fall of 1974, it

was determined that the best

chance for the success of a trum-

pet organization would be real-

ized by building a membership

with the

broadest

base possi-

ble.All per-

sons interested in the

trumpet (professionals,

amateurs, teachers,

students, manufactur-

ers, etc.) would be

invited to join, and all

genres of trumpet

playing

(symphonic, jazz, commercial,

solo, etc.) would be represent-

ed. Gorham and Nagel worked

together on the wording of the

announcement for the new

organization and the open invi-

tations to be sent out. Gorham,

with the considerable aid of

Ellen, his wife, and many of his

students at Indiana University,

accepted the initial responsibili-

ty for copying and mailing the

announcements and first newsletters, as well

as the record-keep-

ing.This group also

developed and mailed

the new membership

cards, which spelled

out “The International

Trumpet Guild” in the

clever shape of a trum-

pet silhouette, a design

that was created by stu-

dent Bob Palomo.

Membership grew

unsteadily for a while,

but seemed to pick up

after it was announced

that ITG would sponsor

a trumpet conference in

May 1975. The confer-

ence was held at Indiana University, and the

planning helped focus attention on the ini-

tial membership drive for the Guild, only a

few months old at the time. That confer-

ence, featuring such artists as Charles

Schlueter, Louis Davidson,

Allan Dean, Bob Nagel, Cat

Anderson, and Renold

Schilke, served as the cata-

lyst to officially establish

the International Trumpet

Guild. By the end of the

three-day conference, a

number of important tasks

had been accomplished,

not the least of which was

the consensus that such a

conference should be held

every year, sponsored by

Robert King gives a lecture on brass publishing at the 1983conference in Ithaca, NewYork.He received the ITG Honorary Award during thisconference.


Cofounder CharlesGorham was alsoITG’s fourth presi-dent, 1981-1983.

ITG Honorary Award winner

Armando Ghitalla



ITG. During the conference, Cat Anderson

became the 600th member of ITG at the

conclusion of his featured performance.

Also at that conference the first ITG meet-

ings were held, a constitution and by-laws

were proposed, and a slate of nominees for

ITG offices was creat-

ed. A steering commit-

tee was selected to act

on matters that came

up before officers

could be elected and

to serve as the first

board of directors

after elections were

completed. This com-

mittee was composed

of Charles Gorham and Robert Nagel (both

of whom declined nomination for president,

but did agree to act as coordinators of the

committee), David Hickman, Robert Levy,

Thomas Stevens, and Ward Cole, a Canadian

and the only non-U.S. member of the

committee.

By August 1975, the votes for officers

and the board had been tabulated and

the following were elected as the first

officers of ITG: Lloyd Geisler, president;

Clifford Lillya, vice president; David Baldwin,

secretary; and Gordon Mathie, treasurer. In

addition to the members of the steering

committee, Bud Brisbois, Carole Dawn

Reinhart, Charles Colin, Susan Slaughter,

Don Smithers, and Roger Voisin were

elected to the board of directors.

The International Trumpet Guild was

established “to promote communications

among trumpet players around the world

and to improve the artistic level of perfor-

mance, teaching, and the literature associat-

ed with the trumpet.”

These goals have been

pursued through vari-

ous projects over the

past 25 years, often

with tremendous and

lasting success. One

such project is the

publication of the

International

Trumpet Guild

Journal, a scholarly journal which is pub-

lished quarterly.The first Journal, dated

October 1976, was an outgrowth of the ITG

newsletter. The inaugural issue appeared in

February 1975 (Vol. I, No. 1). This, as well as

Vol. I, No. 2 (published in August 1975), was

typed, photocopied, and stapled. Starting

with Vol. II, newsletters were typeset and

ITG cofounderRobert Nagel

Donald Bullock,fifth ITG president(1983-1985)

Anne Farr Hardin, ITG Journal editor 1978-

1996, with science fiction writer Ray

Bradbury, whose poem “Just Gimme That

Brass”appeared in the September 1995 issue

of the Journal.



mailed under the

newly acquired ITG

nonprofit mail permit.

There was only one

newsletter in Vol. II

(March 1976),

because in July of

1976 Stephen Glover

was appointed editor

of ITG publications.

Glover made several

immediate changes in

the newsletter. First,

he established a publication schedule set

up to correspond to the U.S. academic year,

with No. 1 coming out in September, No. 2

in February, and No. 3 in May. At the same

time he started up the

ITG Journal, a publica-

tion larger than the

newsletter, which

would be published

annually in October.

It would include vari-

ous articles as well as

a synopsis of the pre-

ceding annual ITG

conference.

Next, he enlisted the help of other

ITG members to act as editors of

regular columns such as book

reviews, music reviews, recent programs, and

general news. He also invited members to

submit articles and other contributions for

publication. In addition to Glover’s very suc-

cessful efforts to make the Journal a regular

and more scholarly publication, he was also

responsible for instituting the cover that all

ITG members now know so well.The graph-

ic in the background on all Journal covers

since 1976 is a Hans Burgkmair woodcut

from The Triumph

of Maximilian I.

Anne Farr (later

Anne Farr Hardin)

followed Glover

as Journal editor,

starting with the

October 1978

issue and contin-

uing (except for

a one-year sabbat-

ic from Septem-

ber 1989 to

1990) in this

position until

1996.

It was

Hardin who

changed the for-

mat beginning

in fall 1982 to

eliminate the newsletters and to publish four

Journals during the year, spreading the dates

out to September, December, February, and

May. The “special sup-

plements” to the

Journal also began

with Hardin’s tenure.

These supplements

have taken any num-

ber of forms including

new music composi-

tions (solo, duet,

quintet, etc.), new

arrangements of old

works, discographies,

Trumpet performer,historian, and thisyear's ITG HonoraryAward recipientEdward Tarr

Vincent DiMartino,seventh ITG presi-dent, 1987-1989

ITG’s eighth presi-dent, Stephen Jones,served consecutiveterms (1989-1993)

Russian virtuoso TimofeiDokshizer, honored witha lifetime membershipon the ITG board ofdirectors


Journal indices, vinyl recordings, CDs, a his-

torical timeline of dates and pictures of

instruments pertaining to the development

of the trumpet, booklets of programs by ITG

members, and many other

items of interest to trum-

peters. Under Hardin’s edi-

torship, the ITG Journal

became one of the top

scholarly publications of the

various instruments. It is

recognized by music schol-

ars as an authoritative work

in its field, and is included

in the Music Index. It is a

valuable resource to the

trumpet community not

only for its articles, but also

for its columns on news,

recent programs, clinics,

and reviews of new music,

recordings, dissertations,

and books.When Hardin

resigned in 1996, Steve

Glover returned as editor and served until

1999, when Michael Caldwell, the current

ITG Journal editor, was selected.

Another

ITG proj-

ect that

has achieved a

record of con-

tinued success

and excellence

over 25 years is

the annual

summer conference.These conferences

sometimes bring as many as 900 trumpet

enthusiasts together. They have been held

annually since 1975, with the exception of

1976, when the efforts of the Guild were

concentrated on representating the trumpet

community at the first International Brass

Congress in Montreux, Switzerland. Though

the first several

conferences

were concen-

trated in the

middle of the

United States

(Indiana,

Illinois, and

Wisconsin),

sites soon were

selected to include other geographic areas

of the United States, and more recently, con-

The compensating four-valve trumpet invented by Dr.Marin Lessen, c. 1980


Four of ITG’s presidents, Kim Dunnick (11th president, 1997-1999), Joyce Davis (10th president, 1995-1997, Jim Olcott (12thand current president, 1999-2001), and Leonard Candelaria (9thpresident, 1993-1995) rehearse for a quartet performance at the1999 trumpet festival in Bad Säckingen, Germany, with theGöteborg Brass Band, conducted by Bengt Eklund



ferences have been hosted in London,

England; Rotterdam, Netherlands; and

Göteborg, Sweden. Though the format has

differed from site to site, the conferences

always include perfor-

mances and clinics by

world-renowned soloists,

ensembles, pedagogues,

and manufacturers; student

competitions in various

performance genres, exhibi-

tions of new instruments,

equipment, and music from

both large and small manu-

facturers and publishers;

and an open ITG meeting.

At each conference, a broad

spectrum of performance

areas including orchestral,

jazz, solo, and chamber

playing is represented.

Regardless of the geographic

site for the conference, the ITG planners try

to bring in artists and clinicians from coun-

tries throughout the world.

While the annual conferences and

the publication of the Journal

are the two most visible endeav-

ors of the International Trumpet Guild, the

Guild has been involved in many other sig-

nificant activities throughout its first 25

years. A steady influx of new performance

literature is vital to the professional growth

of any instrument.

Many excellent works have come from the

various composition competitions sponsored

by the ITG on a yearly basis. Competition

genres have included solo trumpet, trumpet

and piano, two trumpets, trumpet in cham-

ber music, solo trumpet in the jazz idiom,

cornet and brass band, brass quintet, and

trumpet and voice. Though the competi-

tions have been successful in attracting

some excellent works, the ITG board soon

decided to allocate funds for specific com-

missions from well-established composers.

In 1978 the ITG Commissions Committee

was formed to determine genres and identify

composers for new

trumpet commissions.

Funding for these

compositions has been

increased over the

years, and completed

commissions include

works from such

composers as Peter

Maxwell Davies, Robin

Holloway, Norman

ITG Journal editor Anne Hardin poses in 1983 with Anatoly

Selianin from Saratov, Russia, and Steve Winnick, composer and

trumpet teacher at Georgia Tech University.

Current ITG Journaleditor MichaelCaldwell



Della Joio, Eric Ewazen, Samuel Adler,

Raymond Premru, Karel Husa, Jan Bach,

Stan Friedman,William Schmidt, Robert

Suderburg, Fisher Tull, David Sampson,

Harrison

Birtwistle,

and Bernard

Heiden.

Many school

or area brass

groups and

trumpet

ensembles

have also

commis-

sioned

works to be

premiered at

the ITG con-

ferences.

The Guild

has been active in encouraging and sup-

porting various other studies and research

projects. In 1985 ITG underwrote the repub-

lishing of Werner Menke’s The History of the

Trumpet of Bach and Handel, which had

been out of print and unavailable for some

time. Funds were provided by ITG for

Lowrey’s International Trumpet

Discography, compiled by Al Lowrey

and published in 1990. This two-

volume set is a reference work index-

ing and cross-referencing over 650

recordings of solo trumpet works and

has proven to be an excellent tool,

especially for teachers and their

students. In 1993 the Book Reprint

Committee was established to recom-

mend and prepare for republication

books of significant current or histori-

cal importance that are unavailable.

Advanced Method for Trumpet by

Robert Grocock was the first item

reprinted, in 1994, under this commit-

The Canadian Brass perform at an ITG annual conference.

Natural trumpet enthusiasts Pete Siverson, H. M.

Lewis, former ITG Journal editor Stephen Glover, and

Larry Johansen


International Trumpet Guild 25th Anniversary • 11tee’s direction. ITG also provides funding for

a variety of activities on an ad hoc basis. In

1997 ITG translated and

published The Memoirs of

Timofei Dokshizer, the auto-

biography of the famed

Russian trumpet virtuoso, in

English.

Other projects have

included partial funding for

printing the museum catalog

of the Streitwieser collection

and a donation to the Edison

Institute museum to assist in

its purchase of a rare Graves

trumpet. Grants to individual

researchers and student

ITG affiliate chapters are

also examples of this type of

funding. A number of scholar-

ships to students in different

age categories are awarded annually to

defray the cost of attendance at the ITG

conferences.

In 1996 the board

authorized the develop-

ment of the ITG Web site.

The project was spear-

headed by Michael

Anderson, and the first

site was written by

Stephen Glover. It

quickly became a global

venue for trumpet news,

journal research, links

to outside resources,

and other information.

Today it is one of our

most visible ventures

and continues to add

features and provide

services for our mem-

Front page of the Peter Maxwell Davies score to “Fanfare for Lowry,”an ITG commission in 2000

Board member from 1993 to

1997 Ye Shu Han from Taiwan


12 • International Trumpet Guild 25th Anniversarybership, as well as the public.

As the International Trumpet Guild has

grown in size and scope, it has also grown in

stature and prestige. Since 1988, ITG has

taken the responsibility of administering

the Ellsworth Smith International Trumpet

Solo Competition, which occurs every

other year, and in

1991 ITG was asked

to administer the

Carmine Caruso Jazz

Competition in the

years between the

Smith competitions.

Major funding for

these two important

competitions comes

from the Columbus

Foundation and from

the Herb Alpert

Foundation, respec-

tively. Additional

funding comes from ITG, which is

responsible for the logistics, advertis-

ing, production, and adjudication for

the events.

Recently ITG has increased its

international presence. In

1996 the Guild helped fund

the first Vassily Brandt Trumpet

Competition in Saratov, Russia.

In 1998 the ITG was the major

sponsor of the Kiev International

Trumpet Competition in Kiev,

Ukraine.

So, the past 25 years have seen

significant growth in the Inter-

national Trumpet Guild.The ITG

Journal has gone from a four-page type-

written newsletter to a respected scholar-

ly publication.Today’s typical Journal

issue includes more than 100 pages of

articles, news, reviews, and photos.The

numerous advertisements, eight pages of

which are in color, bring in more than

$70,000 of income annually. The 1994

conference, the 19th sponsored by the

ITG, had more than 900 participants and

spanned four days. Membership has

increased from 600 in 1975 to more

than 6,000 in 1999, and the annual

budget now exceeds $330,000.Affiliate

chapters have been established at more

than 30 sites across the United States

and regional conferences are held regu-

larly in some areas. An affiliate organiza-

tion in Europe, Euro-ITG, was formed in

1990, with Ed Tarr elected as its first

president. In 1997 ITG helped the

Australians organize their first Australian

Bryan Goff served asITG treasurer from1981 to 1997.

ITG president Joyce Davis presented the ITG

Honorary Award to Philip Jones at the conference

in Sweden, 1997.



Trumpet Conference.The resulting organi-

zation, the Australian Trumpet Guild, has

a subset that is a chapter of the ITG.

Both the Australian Trumpet Guild and

Euro-ITG now hold conferences and

publish newsletters.

What lies ahead for the

International Trumpet Guild

remains to be seen, but history

and momentum would indicate a strong

likelihood for “bigger and better” record-

ing projects, commissions, book reprints,

and funding of research or other grants, as

well as continued improvement in the ITG

Journal, the Web site, and the annual con-

ferences.We hope that in the coming

years ITG will be able to expand its

international involvement and bring the

trumpet world even closer together with

improved communication everywhere,

and with special help given to emerging

and struggling nations. ITG will work

toward a better exchange of news, music,

literature, ideas, equipment, and innova-

tions to and from any country where

there are active trumpeters.

From its formal organization in

1975 to today, ITG has proved true to its

purpose,“to promote communications

among trumpet players around the world

and to improve the artistic level of perfor-

mance, teaching, and literature associated

with the trumpet.”We look forward to the

next quarter century with enthusiasm,

optimism, energy, and great expectations!

1994 Ellsworth Smith International Trumpet Solo Competition winnerFalk Maertens

Chicago Symphony principal

trumpet Bud Herseth, Honorary

Award recipient, 1998


First page of the International Trumpet Guild-commissioned “Sonata” by Eric Ewazen, 1995

This booklet was produced by: Bad Dog! Studios (www.gsapio.com/baddog.html • [email protected])

and David Carl JonesEdited by Michael Caldwell


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