Trumpet Artist & Clinician
On February 1, 2024, Anne performed flugelhorn with the Athena Brass Band at the Ohio Music Educator’s Conference in Columbus, Ohio.
It was such a blast making new connections and reconnecting with friends. The band sounded incredible! Anne’s looking forward to performing on flugel again with them in Japan at the 2024 International Women’s Brass Conference!
Anne will present with the I.S.U. Faculty Brass Quintet at the Illinois Music Educator’s Conference on Thursday January 25th at 3 pm at the Peoria Civic Center.
FBQ Handout: How to Utilize Chamber Music to Strengthen Your Instrumental Music Program
She is also presenting a class with Dr. Ianthea Calhoun at the Ohio Music Educators Association Conference on Friday February 2nd at 8 am in Cleveland, Ohio. Anne is also performing the flugelhorn chair with the Athena Brass Band at the Thursday February 1st evening concert. For more details: OMEA Guidebook
Fundamental Frameworks for Trumpet Handout
This Fall 2023, Dr. McNamara will have several performances that are open to the public. For livestream information, please visit: https://events.illinoisstate.edu/organizer/school-of-music/
Anne McNamara Illinois State University Faculty Recital:
Sunday September 3, 2023, 1 pm, Kemp Recital Hall
Heartland Festival Orchestra Concert: Video Games in Concert
Saturday September 23, 2023, 7:30 pm, Five Points Washington
Dr. Angelo Favis Faculty Recital performance:
Tuesday September 26th, 2023, 8 pm, Kemp Recital Hall
Illinois State University University Chorale Concert Performance:
Sunday October 15th, 6 pm, Center for Performing Arts
Heartland Festival Orchestra Concert: The Original Phantom of the Opera Film with Orchestra Saturday October 28th, 7:30 pm, Five Points Washington
Illinois State University Civic Chorale Handel’s Messiah
Sunday November 12th, 3 pm, Center for Performing Arts
Illinois State University Wind Symphony Featured Soloist
Wednesday November 15th, 8 pm, Center for Performing Arts
Heartland Festival Orchestra and the Peoria Ballet’s Nutcracker
Performances: December 9th & 10th
We had a tremendous 2022-2023 school year! In addition to many successful performances on campus, we had several guest artists come work with the studio: John Cord, Matt Vangjel, Raquel Samayoa and Jacinda Ripley. Three of our students graduated and are heading off to grad school too!
In April, I.S.U. Trumpet Studio member and president of the Music Student Multicultural Association, KT Freimuth, helped host the first ever Music and Disability Convocation through the help of the School of Music, the Sage Foundation and assistance from Dr. McNamara. The convocation featured guest artists Dr. Catherine Lewis, Andy Slater and Molly Joyce.
In mid May, Dr. McNamara performed the solo flugelhorn chair with the Athena Brass Band at their spring concert in Louisville, KY!
We hope if you’re in the Peoria area, you’ll join us for this special concert! Works performed include Gabrieli’s Canzon per Sonare #2, McKee’s Durrenhorn Passage, Morales’s Cityscapes and many arrangements of famous classical works including Stravinsky’s L’Histoire du Soldat, the Habanera from Carmen, Eine Klein Nachtmusik, and Clair de Lune. Dr. McNamara will perform The Maid of the Mist, McKee’s A Winter’s Night and Ulysses Kay’s Tromba with Lu Witzig on piano.
If you’d like to hear Anne play in spring 2023, please check out the following performances:
If you can’t attend the recital in person, you can check out the livestream.
During the summer of 2022, Anne presented and published her research on “The History of Women Trumpet Professors.” Her presentation took place as part of the 2022 IWBC conference in Denton, Texas and her article was published by the International Trumpet Guild in their June 2022 issue. She is incredibly grateful to IWBC and ITG for their support of her research and to the many women who graciously provided their career information.
In July, Anne performed as a guest artist with the Brass Band of Central Illinois on two of their summer concerts. In addition to playing principal cornet and solo flugelhorn respectively, she performed H.L. Clarke’s “The Debutante” and the flugelhorn solo from “Gabriel’s Oboe” with the band.
Anne has several upcoming performances for the Fall 2022 semester, including:
The 2021-2022 school year has been a whirlwind with lots of exciting things happening in the I.S.U. Trumpet Studio. Highlights include:
March 29-April 3rd, Six members of the I.S.U. Trumpet Studio traveled with
Dr. McNamara to the 2022 National Trumpet Competition in Newark, Delaware. On their way to the competition, they made a stop at University of Maryland College Park to get a coaching from Chris Gekker. The six students performed a work commissioned by Dr. McNamara and composed by I.S.U. composition faculty member, Dr. Roy Magnuson. The work, inspired by Schubert’s Erlkönig is entitled “through the night, dark and drear.” Jeri Blade, KT Freimuth, Seth Marshall, Christian McLaughlin, Katherine Shindledecker and Ryan Valdivia played beautifully! Katherine also performed beautifully in the graduate solo division semi-finals.
