Author: Jonathan Allen

Tom Kelley (DMA ABD) recently won a position with the USAF bands and is currently stationed in Rammstein, Germany.

Teddy Van Winkle recently won a position with (and subsequently joined) the United States Air Force Band of the Golden West in Vacaville, California. Congratulations, Teddy!

Congratulations to the following students who graduated this spring from the University of Iowa: Zsolt Szabo, DMA – Assistant Professor of Trombone at Western Carolina University Benjamin Yates, DMA – Instructor of Trombone at Luther College Gavin Carney, MA – Received a scholarship to pursue a DMA at the University of Missouri, Kansas City Jack…

Four University of Iowa trombone students were selected to be student workers at the 2016 International Trombone Festival at The Juilliard School in New York. Congratulations to: Benjamin Yates, DMA expected Spring 2016 Robert Parker, DMA candidate Gavin Carney, MA expected Spring 2016 Eriq Vazquez, BM/E junior

Justin Gingerich graduate in May 2015 and he was quickly hired by Orchestra Iowa in Cedar Rapids as the full-time “Institutional Relations Manager.” Congratulations, Justin!

On February 23, 2015 Justin Gingerich performed his senior recital. Congratulations!

On March 3, 2015 Benjamin Yates performed his second doctoral recital. Max Tsai assisted on piano. 

Dr. Jonathan Allen, Benjamin Yates (DMA candidate), and Gavin Carney (MA student) performed Claudio Monteverdi’s Vespers of 1610 with Dr. Timothy Stalter and The University of Iowa’s Kantorei as part of a joint meeting of the American Handel Society and the Society for Seventeenth Century Music. They played on sackbuts owned by the University of…

Congratulations to recent Iowa trombone studio graduate Andrew Birschbach! He has been named Trombone Instructor at John Hersey High School in in Arlington Heights, Illinois.