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The 2024 Election Results are In!!

Our 2024 annual election has concluded. This year there were two positions open for election by the general membership. These positions were:

1. Secretary to server for the 2025-2026 term (Elected by the general membership)
2. Member of the Board of Directors to serve from 2025-2027 (Elected by the general membership
3. Elected Member of the Editorial Board to serve from 2025-2027 (Elected by members of the Editorial Board)

Secretary - Dr. Jared Wallis

The first was the position of Secretary. Joanna Hersey has been our amazing Secretary for the past four years and is stepping down at the end of this year. Replacing her is Dr. Jared Wallis for the 2025-2026 term.

The HBS Membership Secretary is a member of the Board of Directors and is responsible for assisting the Board with correspondence and member management. Dr. Jared Wallis is a versatile performer, scholar, and teaching artist specializing in the natural baroque trumpet performance and pedagogy. He has performed with The Kentucky Baroque Trumpets, Sonitus Clarissima Historical Trumpet and Kettledrums, Ensemble Perihipsous, the American Bach Choir, Mountainside Baroque, and Pegasus Early Music. Dr Wallis currently serves as Assistant Professor of Baroque Trumpet at the Eastman School of Music. He has presented research and performance at conferences for the Historic Brass Society, the National Conference for Undergraduate Research, the American Musicological Society, and the International Trumpet Guild. He has been featured as a soloist and in ensembles at the Rochester Early Music Festival, the Vintage Band Festival, and notably was awarded 1 st prize in the 2022 North American Baroque Trumpet Competition Dr. Wallis is a graduate of the Eastman School of Music where he studied modern trumpet with James Thompson and Boyde Hood, and pursued additional early music studies under the tutelage of Brian Shaw, John Thiessen, Christel Thielmann and Paul O’Dette.

Congratulations, Jared!!

Board of Directors - Robbie Collins

Members of the Board of Directors serve for three years and can then run for one additional sequential three-year term. Robbie Collins will be replacing Steven Lundahl who has served on the Board for about seven years -- he helped bring in elections and term limits since his appointment to the Board -- and is term-limited from serving as an elected member of the Board for a period of three years, as per the rewritten bylaws that he oversaw that led early in his term. As Steve is once again the Interim Treasurer, he will remain on the Board as an ex officio member until a new Treasurer is in place, though will continue to serve on the Budget and Finance committee. He is also once again taking on the role of Technical Director at the end of the year, replacing Nick Harvey who is stepping down as Technical Director but remaining on the technical team in a more limited role. Steve also serves on the Membership and Events committees so he will continue to be very active in the HBS.

Congratulations to Robbie Collins for being elected as a member of the Board of Directors for the 2025-2027 term! The HBS Board of Directors and is responsible for leadership and management of the organization and oversees events and the production of the HBS Journal.

Robbie Collins is a trumpeter originally from the Coastal Plains of North Carolina. He is an active member in the trumpet community as a performer, organizer and educator on both the regional and international level. Presently, Collins serves at North Greenville University as the Music Theory Coordinator and Director of Brass.

Collins has served on the leadership committee for the International Trumpet Guild (ITG) Emerging Professionals Division and served as the volunteer coordinator for the Historic Brass Society. He has also worked with programs such as the University of Kentucky Summer Trumpet Institute, International Trumpet Guild Conference, North American Baroque Trumpet Competition, and Gardner-Webb Trumpet Summit.

Collins has worked and performed with several world class groups and ensembles such as the the Celtic Woman group, South Carolina Philharmonic, Cincinnati Symphony Orchestra’s May Festival, Lexington Philharmonic Orchestra, Knoxville Symphony Orchestra, the Chosen Vale Invitational Summer Trumpet Seminar, Saxton’s Cornet Band, and many others. Additionally, last year Collins participated as a finalist at the North American Baroque Trumpet Competition in both the solo and ensemble divisions.

His previous trumpet instructors include Jason Dovel, Alan Siebert, Gabriel DiMartino, and Tim Hudson. Collins has also participated in masterclasses led by renowned trumpet players such as Hakan Hardenberger, Edward Carrol, Clément Saunier, Chris Martin, Charles Schlueter, Josh Cohen, David Bilger, Craig Morris, Vince DiMartino, and Rex Richardson.

Editorial Board - Bryan Proksch

Bryan Proksch will be replacing Arnold Myers as the elected member of the Editorial Board. Arnold has served for many years on the Editorial Board and will continue to play an active role in our highly regarded peer-reviewed Historic Brass Journal.

Bryan Proksch is a professor of music history and 2019 Distinguished Faculty Lecturer at Lamar University. His research centers on American band history, the reception and “revival” of Haydn’s music in the early twentieth century, Viennese Classicism, and the history of the trumpet. He has written four books, including Bands in American Musical History: Inflection Points and Reappraisals (Rochester, 2024) and The Golden Age of American Bands: A History in Source Documents (1835–1935) (GIA, 2022). Bryan's essays have appeared in the Journal of the American Musicological Society and the Journal of the Historic Brass Society. He also created and edits the International Trumpet Guild Journal’s "Repertoire Corner" column and is the reviews editor for the HBSJ. He is a long-time contributor to the Historic Brass Journal as well as Historic Brass Today and is the former Web Content Editor for the Historic Brass Society.

Congratulations, Bryan!

Registration for the HBS Symposium 2024 is now open. 

See and download the final full schedule here!

The HBS SYMPOSIUM 2024 will take place Wednesday July 10 – Saturday July 13, 2024 in New York City. The event will be centered in the Marjorie S. Deane Little Theatre, 10 West 64 th Street, just steps from Central Park and 1 block from Lincoln Center. This is a state of the art theater with excellent projection and sound, a baby grand piano, comfortable tiered seating, and a variety of other amenities. It is located within the Westside YMCA complex, which also provides a variety of housing options at a reasonable cost.

Our keynote speakers include Sabine Klaus, Peter Holmes and John Wallace. There will be over 35 presentations on a wide range of topics, playing sessions open to all participants, and opportunities to try instruments from attending makers, as well as evening concerts and a tour of the Met Museum instrument collection led by Bradley Strauchen-Scherer on Saturday afternoon.

Registration includes all sessions and concerts, including playing sessions, a tour of the Met Museum collection on Saturday afternoon, and 2 concerts at the Museum on Friday and Saturday evenings. Light refreshments will be available during the breaks as well.

Rates are: General: $250   Students: $150.

We are sorry to announce that Historic Brass Today has ceased publication following the Spring 2024 issue. This is due to the difficulty in obtaining submissions and the fact that Helen Roberts, our wonderful Production Manager who worked hard to give HBT the highly polished and attractive look has a new position and no longer had the time to devote to HBT. We wish to thank Michael O'Connor for his excellent work as Managing Editor, Helen Roberts for her superb production work and attention to detail and style, as well as to all of the other contributors to the publication.

Historic Brass Today was conceived as a bridge between our esteemed annual scholarly Historic Brass Journal and our website to offer informative, yet lighter articles, as well as interviews, reviews, news and event information, and to offer our members additional opportunities to be involved in the HBS and to achieve recognition. While not planned as a "pandemic publication", it became more difficult to obtain submissions after 2021 as members were busy reestablishing their musical lives.

We are very proud of the work that Mike, Helen and the many contributors produced, and hope that at some point we may be able to resume publication. For now, however, we must focus our efforts elsewhere. We have opened the publication up to the public, removing it from our paywall.

Thanks again, to everyone that made Historic Brass Today the high quality publication it became!

Steven Lundahl and the entire Executive team

Holger Eichhorn, pioneering cornettist, musicologist, polemicist, and editor, has left us. I first met Holger in 1975, when, having heard news of a new cornetto player in Basel, he invited me to come to Berlin to meet him. I took a night train, which Holger (and his younger brother Klaus) met at the station. He accompanied me to his place and then listened intently as I, eyes barely open, warmed up on my Monk resin cornetto. I still remember vividly his first words, “Hmm… nice, but still rather trumpetlike.” With that visit I came to know Holger’s passion for the cornetto, his intensity, his unwillingness to compromise on anything, his immense knowledge and his propensity to play on instruments that had nothing to do, that I could discern, with historical cornetti. As I got to know him better over the next couple of decades, all of those impressions only deepened - and also my perplexity and my respect. 

Make plans to see some of the wonderful events at this year's symposium!

            Dr. Joanna Hersey, longtime HBS member and the organization’s Secretary, was honored at the International Tuba Euphonium Conference held May 29th-July 3rd, held at Arizona State University in Tempe, Arizona. The International Tuba Euphonium Association (ITEA) celebrated the organization's 50th anniversary with a week of concerts, student competitions, masterclasses, and historical presentations. Participants gathered from across the world, joined by local educators, students, community members, and a variety of exhibitors showcasing instrument design and new music.

The Historic Brass Society is happy to welcome our new Interim General Manager to the team. A performer and musical instrument industry specialist, Ann Carroll Bundy is a freelance artist and educator in the Boston area. A veteran of the United States Coast Guard, Ann served as Principal Flute in the U.S.C.G. Band, touring internationally, performing for Presidential inaugurations, in ceremonial work for heads of state, and as a member of the U.S.C.G. Woodwind Quintet.

Congratulations to the 2024 Christopher Monk Award recipient, Howard Weiner!

Mississippi University for Women in Columbus, Mississippi hosted the 7th annual Music by Women Festival in March 2024. Held in Kossen Auditorium in the historic Poindexter Music Hall, built in 1905 and home to the Department of Music, this festival featured three days of performances and lectures. The material presented included one common factor, all research centered gender studies, and all of the pieces performed were by female composers.