Trumpet Artist & Clinician
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.
For those of you who missed it, Anne’s Fall 2021 faculty recital can be viewed here. The program included the first movement of the Adolphus Hailstork Sonata for Trumpet and Piano, Cecilia McDowall’s “Framed,” Anthony Plog’s “Thoughts,” and Petr Eben’s “Windows for Trumpet and Organ.”
The fall 2021 semester is shaping up to be quite busy! Please make note of the following performances. I hope you’ll check them out!
September 21, 2021, Anne McNamara Faculty Recital, 8 pm I.S.U. CPA
October 2, 2021, Heartland Festival Orchestra Brass Quintet Performance in Donovan Park, Peoria, IL 10:30 am
October 14, 2021 I.S.U. Faculty Brass Quintet Recital, 8 pm I.S.U. CPA
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October 28, 2021 I.S.U. Immigrants Day Celebration, 12 pm I.S.U. Quad
November 6, 2021 Champaign Urbana Symphony, 7:30 pm
Concerto for 3 Trumpets, 2 oboes and Timpani by Telemann
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November 15, 2021 I.S.U. Wind Symphony Concert, 8 pm I.S.U. CPA
Peter Meechan’s “Lost Verses” for flugelhorn and wind symphony
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Anne will present two masterclasses for the 2021 Virtual International Trumpet Guild Conference on June 1-2, 2021. For more information, please visit: 2021 ITG Conference Registration
Anne will also be teaching on faculty at the University of Kentucky Summer Trumpet Institute June 7-10, 2021. For more information, please visit: 2021 UKSTI Registration
On Tuesday September 22, 2020, Anne performed a special live-streamed faculty recital via YouTube live. Utilizing the technology of video game streamers, she hosted a screening of her fall faculty recital allowing for interaction with live chat of audience members. The recital included recorded performances of Valerie Langfield’s “In Retrospect,” Karen Tanaka’s “Silent Ocean,” Regina Harris Baiocchi’s “Miles per Hour” and Melody Eotvos’s “Light Form.” The live-stream also featured recorded program notes from several of the composers themselves.