Recent News

Recent Additions.

On January 23, 2010 Abbie and William will perform Music for the End of Time in Keller Hall at the University of New Mexico.  Abbie will offer a trombone masterclass on Friday, January 22nd.

Abbie and William will be artists in residence at Southwestern University from January 25th to 28th.  They will offer various three lectures, a trombone masterclass and two concerts (Music for the End of Time and Street Scene for the Last Mad Soprano.)

In mid March 2010 we spent 4 days in Rome.  We saw the sites, attended a performance of Boito's Mesfistofele at the Rome Opera, and buzzed around the city on a Vespa. 

Form April 2-7, 2010 we will be in residence at the University of Málaga, Spain.  Abbie will give trombone masterclasses.  William will give a 2 hour lecture at Faculty of Education Sciences on Tuesday, April 6 from 3:00 to 5:00 PM about the status of women in music, especially orchestras, and discuss the history of our activism for them.

We will perform Music for the End of Time for the International Womens Brass Conference which will be held from June 16-20, 2010 in Toronto.

We will perform Music for the End of Time for the IX Alzira Brass Festival in Alzira, Spain from July 1-3, 2010.

From July 15, 2010 to April 1, 2011 Abbie will be on sabbatical.  We will be living in Taos, NM.  A central purpose of the sabbatical is to create video recordings of some of our music theater works.

Older entries from 2007-2008.

Last December Abbie was a jury member for the Porcia International Trombone Competition 2007 in Italy.  See her video interviews of the other judges.

This summer Abbie was a soloist and competition jury member for the 

Lieksa Brass Festival in Finland.  (2008) She performed William's work "Music for the End of Time.  See her video of other faculty members.

In October Abbie and her trombone class from the Musikhochschule Trossingen particpated in an event honoring trombonist Gusztáv Höna at the Liszt Academy in Budapest, Hungary.

In November Abbie  peformed on the trombone recital of Lisa Albrecht at the Julliard School in New York City.  She performed "Pond," co-composed by Abbie and William.

Abbie was a jury member for 2nd International N. A. Rimsky-Korsakov Competition in Saint-Petersburg, Russia from 23 November - 6 December, 2008.  

She also performed the Lars Eric Larson Trombone Concerto.

2009

On January 13-16 Abbie and William performed and gave masterclasses at the 

Conservatory of Music in Málaga, Spain.  

Prof. Jesús Fernando Lloret González, who teaches trombone at the Conservatory of Málaga, is writing his Ph.D. dissertation about our multi-media and music theater work.

On March 7 Abbie was a featured soloist for the Internationaler Posaunenverein in Stuttgart, Germany.  She performed William's work "Music for the End of Time."

In March and April Abbie and William performed and gave masterclasses at 

13 universities in the Western part of the United States.