Frøydis Ree Wekre

Frøydis Ree Wekre  is a horn player born in 1941 and was born from a musical family. Before playing the horn she studied piano and violin, while playing in a Junior Orchestra in Norway. Frøydis only picked up the horn at the age of seventeen due to loving the sound.

Frøydis won her first position in an orchestra in 1961- she was 20.... she had been playing the horn for only four years...

After playing in the orchestra for a while she retired to become a full time teacher of Horn. There was one sentence that stood out to me in her bio on the Internation Horn Society website...

"She advocates practicing lip and mouthpiece buzzing while waiting for a bus, even if it might be considered a bit eccentric; "If people don't know you, it doesn't matter what they think of you, and if they do know you, well, then it's not a surprise."

Great idea to do soemthing and not care about how a random person portrays you for doing it!

I included this video, even though it is 40 mins long, but it teaches you about her ideas on teaching, intonation, whistling and buzzing at bus stops.

Deanna Swaboda

Dr. Swaboda is a female tuba player, and teacher at Arizona State University's School of Music where she teaches Tuba and Euphonium. She has travled the world playing Tuba, but the really cool thing about Dr. Swaboda is she is the creator and performer in of a motivational recruiting video called Band Blast Off.

I decided to look up this recruiting video and found out you can only buy it to view the whole video. It is a 20 minute video for band directors to focus on teamwork while having fun in band. I wanted to share the little snippet I found!

The First All Female National Trumpet Competition Group

I was going to do this blog on the first all-female trumpet ensemble that made it to the National Trumpet Competition 

This group is from the University of California Los Angeles, studying with Jens Lindemann who is the prior trumpet player in the Candian Brass.

The contest was recently canceled and they can no longer go, but before the contest was canceled they posted a video to raise money for their trip and I wanted to show it to you all because I find it pretty empowering. This video will have to be hyperlink though due to the blogger not wanting to find the video on youtube.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?time_continue=2&v=vAhYKMC73ug&feature=emb_logo

Listening playlist 2

For listening number two click here

Quintet for brass by Jay Greenberg (2012)

Played by: American Brass Quintet 

Funkytown/ I Feel Good (2015)

Played by: Lucky Chops

Arfica (2011)

Played by: Hackney Colliery Band 

Divertimento No. 4 K. 439b by Mozart (1783)

I.               Allegro

II.              Largo

III.            Menuetto

IV.            Adagio 

V.             Allgretto 

Played by: Horn Ensemble D3

Florentiner Marsch 1998

Played by: Mnozil Brass

Quintet by Michael Kamen (2003)

Played by: Canadian Brass 

Seraph Brass

Seraph Brass is an all female brass ensemble consisting of six female brass players from around the country. Based off videos and their website though they play mostly quintet music and swap out on of the trumpet players and sometimes incorporate sextet music.

The group has three trumpet players: Mary Bowden, Raquel Samayoa, and Jean Laurenz a horn player: Rachel Velvikis a Trombone player: Hana Beloglavec and a Tuba player: Gretchen James. These players have played for Adele, played in world renowned orchestras like the Chicago Symphony and many other cool things. Check out their Bio here.

You watch some of their media here but I want to include this video for you all.