Trombone and Euphonium at MTSU

11/26/2020

From our studio to yours, we hope you have a great Thanksgiving!

11/17/2020

It is great to be back! After a hiatus due to COVID-19, we figured we would give you an update on what we have been doing and what is currently happening…….

- Finished out the spring with some FANTASTIC virtual juries

- Sadly saw some great people and musicians graduate

- Virtual Masterclasses all summer long with Dr. Loucky, working on a variety of different topics

- Members of the studio are participating in the MTSU Band of Blue Marching Band, in a socially distanced capacity! (Link down below)

- We have returned to in-person masterclass and lessons! (With Mask, Bell Covers and Socially Distanced)

- Recently, all 3 large ensembles have completed recording sessions on music that they have been working since the beginning of the semester!

- We had a studio recital! (Link down below)

- Trombone Ensemble performed on the Brass Chamber Ensemble (Link Down Below)

We are in the home stretch of this semester, but it has been great being back on campus and creating music with everyone around us again! Thank you to all staff and professors who have helped make this semester happen. We appreciate you!

Videos of Performances:
MTSU Band of Blue: https://youtu.be/0EL5DXCyi5Y
Euphonium Studio: https://youtu.be/90SRcCfVc4M
Trombone Studio: https://youtu.be/K1hhQnb_okg
Trombone Ensemble: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Mg47psUQu-I&t=9s

11/16/2020

Be sure to to follow this link at 8 p.m. cst to see the MTSU Trombone Ensemble perform tonight!

Live Stream of Concerts in the MTSU School of Music, Hinton Music Hall Middle Tennessee State University

11/05/2020

Hey everyone, be on the look out for new content! You'll be meeting our studio very soon......

07/22/2020

✨Special Announcement✨Dr. Jennifer Vannatta-Hall became Interim Director for the School of Music on June 1, 2020. Her history at MTSU dates back to 1994 when she began her undergraduate degree in music education. Since that time, Dr. V has completed two degrees in music education from MTSU and began teaching courses in the School of Music in 2003. She received her doctorate in music education from the University of Illinois in 2010 and has taught vocal/general music to children ages preschool through high school.

Congratulations Dr. Vannatta-Hall!

02/23/2020

Congratulations to Nathan Hargis on a fantastic junior recital!

02/23/2020

Take a look at this interview with Nashville Symphony music director Giancarlo Guerrero, done by our very own Jack Marlow!

This weekend, February 20th through the 23rd, Nashville Symphony will present an all-Beethoven concert, including the ground-breaking Eroica symphony, the somewhat confusingly titled Leonore Overtu…

02/06/2020

Meet the Trombone Studio!
Dr. David L. Loucky, Professor of Trombone

Dr. David Loucky, trombonist and low brass specialist, performs on all low brass instruments. A faculty member at Middle Tennessee State University since 1989, he also performed for two seasons as Assistant Principal Trombonist with the St. Louis Symphony Orchestra. He has performed and lectured at several International Trombone Festivals, and International Tuba-Euphonium Conferences and served on the faculty of the Tennessee Governor's School for the Arts. He is an active performer with the Nashville Symphony, the New Hampshire Music Festival, the Huntsville Symphony, the Stones River Chamber Players, the MTSU Faculty Jazz Combo, the Middle Tennessee Jazz Orchestra. the MTSU Faculty Brass Quintet, and the Nashville Chamber Brass.

With the St. Louis Symphony, Loucky toured 6 European countries and four states, performed six times in Carnegie Hall, and played in all the low brass chairs except tuba (Principal, Assistant, Second and Bass Trombone, Euphonium and Bass Trumpet). He was also very active in the Symphony's educational arm, the Community Partnership Program. With the Nashville Symphony he has played in every low brass chair including tuba, and also performed in that orchestra's Carnegie Hall debut in 2000.

Loucky earned a Bachelor of Arts from Wesleyan University, a Master of Music from Yale School of Music, and a Doctorate of Musical Arts from the State University of New York at Stony Brook. He had additional studies in Cologne, Germany and Vienna, Austria in both classical and jazz traditions. His principal teachers include John Swallow (New York Brass Quintet and NYC Ballet), Ronald Borror (American Brass Quintet and NYC Ballet), Bill Harris (Syracuse Symphony), Jiggs Whigam (West German Radio Big Band), Horst Kublbock (Vienna Symphony) and Eric Kleinschuster (Austrian Radio Big Band).

Loucky performs on a period 19th century ophicleide, the predecessor of the tuba and euphonium. He engages in the research of repertoire for this instrument and collaborates with composers who are interested in writing new works for it.

02/03/2020

Welcome to the MTSU Trombone and Euphonium Studio page! Get the word out so you can stay up to date with everything trombone and euphonium related here at MTSU!