Vespertine Formations
I'm a Junior in college studying Instrumental and Vocal Music Education, with a primary on trumpet and an intended Jazz minor. My passion lies in Marching Band/Drum Corps, Jazz, and worship music, but I understand the importance of teaching all disciplines and all musical concepts. You can also view my online teaching portfolio by clicking the world icon below.
This blog will serve as a place to express my thoughts and share my love of music throughout my endeavors as a musician. Mostly, you'll just see pictures of instruments, but I like to post education related things as well. Enjoy!
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Yeeeah. I recorded some lines for a friend and found out that I have a lisp. I always thought that it was just the microphone.
Nope. I found out yesterdaythat I have a lisp. I’ve been speaking for 19 years. How did I never realize this?
Whether it’s instrumental or voice, I always feel really awk listening to a recording of myself for the first couple times… you notice so many things you don’t even think about while you’re performing. Recording yourself is a great way to analyze your practice habits, though.
Though I’m not doing much right now other than working, I’ve got a lot of exciting things lined up that I’ll discuss more when the time comes.
June 10-13: 2012 Conn-Selmer Institute
- Got one of the 10 scholarships at my university to attend this! Essentially a 3.5 day long music education clinic. Lots of brass and percussion information, but it’s geared towards future music educators, and I can use it for professional development and college credit.
June 20-?: Men’s Barbershop Camp
- I just heard of this recently, but I’ll be attending a camp geared towards vocalists who want to learn more about Barbershop style music. Can’t wait!
June 29-30: Wedding Gig
- A good friend of mine, and fellow jazz band member, is getting married this summer! She’s invited me and my trumpet trio to play at her wedding alongside a professional string quartet in front of her family and colleagues. Looking forward to a memorable experience, and hopefully I’ll get some good networking opportunities!
July 7-13: World Choir Games
- My University’s show choir, and Indiana’s Official Goodwill Ambassadors, the Ball State University Singers, will be competing in the World Choir Games in Cincinnati, OH. This is a fantastic opportunity not only for our vocal/instrumental/MusTech programs, but for our University as a whole.
- Following this event, we were invited by a related organization from China to tour for a couple weeks in November. Another historical event for our choir and our university, which hopefully I can make room for!
Alongside these events I’m joining my local community band on Tues evenings, joining church orchestra and choir on Sat evenings and Sun mornings, giving trumpet lessons, taking private lessons on guitar/voice/percussion/trumpet, and overall gearing up for when I go back to school in August. Oh, and I get to show up to school essentially 2 weeks early for marching band because I’m one of three trumpet section leaders. Whoo!
Right now I’m a second year Instrumental MusEd student with a focus on trumpet. I’ve been wanting to add on Vocal Ed to my degree for awhile, but I finally bucked up and decided to talk to the dept. head today. It looks like if I follow through with it the way that’s “recommended,” I will be here for at least 3 more years… maybe even an extra semester on top of that….
My preference is in instrumental. I want to do public high school for awhile and eventually get a masters/doctorate in conducting and be a Director of Bands at a uni; however, I love choral music, and the more time I’m here studying music the more I want to learn about voice. I’ve taken vocal lessons before, and I can actually read music and sing fairly well, but right now i’m leaning 51% instr and 49% voice… I’m not sure if the extra time would really be worth it… and I don’t have a strong choral background because most of my experience is in instrumental.
The only other option that won’t kill me is just to get a taste of the choral curriculum (lessons, basic tech/methods classes, etc.), but not enough to be fully licensed. Two years after I graduate (2016) I can take some 2-4 week workshops and get Voice Ed added to my Instr./General Ed license.
So yeah. Thoughts?
