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John Marchiando
- Jul 17, 2019
- 2 min
RMBI 2019, Day 5, Rest Day, sort of…
Day 5 was a bit of a rest day for me, if you could call doing a coaching, teaching a lesson, and a two-hour Summit Brass rehearsal a rest day. But compared to the previous full days of work, it was nice to have a morning off to take it easy. The career seminar for the day was a class on entrepreneurship with the directors of the RMBI and Denver Brass leaders, Kathy Brantigan and Becky Wilkins, audition seminar creator Denise Tryon, and teacher, soloist, and creator of some re
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John Marchiando
- Jul 12, 2019
- 2 min
RMBI 2019, Day 4, Big Day!
Day 4 started with the Career Seminar, “Preparing the Future: Education Careers,” on which I was one of the panel members. Dave Hickman, JD Shaw, Joe Parisi, and Brad Edwards joined me. Dave provided an excellent hand-out for the participants with loads of information on the college teaching career, from the perks of having a university job, down to how to interview, prepare a vitae, etc. I will post the hand out here on my blog soon. We had a fantastic discussion about the e
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John Marchiando
- Jul 11, 2019
- 1 min
RMBI 2019, Day 3, Mock Audition
The big event of the day at the RMBI on day 3 was the Mock Audition Competition. The Summit Brass faculty serve as the committees for each respective instrument and the students who wish to, perform a blind audition of a predetermined list of excerpts from the orchestra and wind band repertoire. The trumpet committee of David Hickman, Ron Romm, Joe Burgstaller, Al Hood, and myself heard 14 solid candidates play preliminary rounds. We advanced 3 people into the “final” round,
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John Marchiando
- Jul 9, 2019
- 2 min
RMBI Day 2. Here we go!
Events began full-scale today at the RMBI. The opening session was a Career Seminar entitled “Winning ‘The Chair: Orchestra & Military Careers”. The panel of Warren Deck, John Lofton, Brian Bowman, and Allene Hackleman led a lively discussion about not only auditioning, but also how to KEEP the job once the audition is won. This is a subject not taught enough by many in our field and needs to be discussed more. I’ll have a blog about this next week when the RMBI is over. Afte
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John Marchiando
- Jul 9, 2019
- 1 min
RMBI, Day 1. The Man.
This year’s RMBI is bittersweet for the Summit Brass family as, in case you haven’t heard, Dave Hickman is retiring from performing. This means that the Summit Brass concert on Saturday will be Dave’s final concert. The word ‘family’ is an appropriate term to describe how those of us who have played with Summit Brass feel about each other. And now, we are losing our patriarch. Dave will still be the Executive Director and Chair of the Summit Brass board, but to not have him s
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John Marchiando
- Jul 7, 2019
- 1 min
RMBI 2019!
I’m heading off to Denver tomorrow for the Rafael Mendez Brass Institute, in which I am a member of the faculty and Summit Brass. This will be my thirteenth year going to the RMBI, and I still get chills thinking about going and getting to play with my colleagues in Summit! I’ll be sitting down each night to write a daily journal of some of what goes on as the week goes on to chronicle some of the events that happen at the Institute. The RMBI is, IMO, one of the great brass e
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John Marchiando
- Jul 7, 2019
- 1 min
Welcome to Fat Man Ranting!
Welcome to the re-incarnation of Fat Man Ranting! But I suppose we should now call it Not-So-Fat Man Ranting! FMR was the title of a blog that I used to write in my youth where I would do my therapy ranting about life, music, sports, etc. I’ve decided to ressurect it, however, it will have a more “grown-up” perspective. It will contain what I hope will be some common sense views on the things in life that are important to me; music, trumpet, practicing, family, Brewers baseba
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