OFFICIAL NEWSLETTER OF THE IWBC www.myiwbc.org Winter 2019 • Vol. 26, No. 1 From the President Happy New Year! As we recover from the holiday of life. Our mission is to season, filled for many of us with brass playing, educate, develop, support, camaraderie, family, and late-night shopping, I’m and promote women brass reminded of our own conference, to be held at Arizona musicians, and to inspire State University this coming May. Registration will continued excellence and open soon! Exhibitors and advertisers may register opportunities in the broader now on our website at http://myiwbc.org for ads and musical world. exhibit space. We thank everyone at our Baltimore and St. Louis Holiday Brass Concerts, from the army Let’s make IWBC 2019 the of volunteers to the musicians; you have outdone best one yet! Stay tuned to our website for information yourselves this year. Tickets are already selling for on registration, housing, and more in the coming weeks. Holiday Brass 2019! I look forward to seeing you there! Do you make New Year’s Resolutions? For many, Best, January is a time to determine anew to work on health and wellness, organization, and to make fresh goals for our lives. What else can we do? Consider mentoring a young student, volunteering with your local music and Dr. Joanna Ross Hersey arts programs, and supporting your local musicians as President, International Women’s Brass Conference Associate Professor of Tuba and Euphonium: The they bring new music this upcoming season. University of North Carolina at Pembroke Stay connected with us by following us on Facebook, Yamaha and Parker Mouthpiece Artist Twitter, and Instagram @IWBC_BRASS where I’m [email protected] likely to appear in another silly video or two reminding Facebook, Twitter@JoannaHersey, Instagram@ JoannaRossHersey, http://www.joannahersey.com you about conference happenings. We invite you to visit our website http://myiwbc.org for updates and to be sure your membership is up-to-date, and there you In this Issue will find options for traditional paper or e-memberships Brass In Balance #3 ............................3 available, as well as ways to donate. A Young Woman Trumpeter’s Perspective ...5 I wish you the very best for 2019, and since it is 2018 Holiday Brass Concerts ................6 an IWBC Conference year, we are sure to make it Noteworthy News ..................................8 memorable. Plan on joining us in Arizona as we Creating a Legacy ...............................11 celebrate brass playing, music composition, encourage Spotlight on Yvonne Toll ......................12 competition, seek out new ideas and viewpoints, and Remembering Joan Watson ................13 Facing Current Biases Against the share our experiences. We are women and men. We Yvonne Toll Female Trumpet Player .......................14 are professional and amateur performers, students and Remembering Rachel Duncan ............17 teachers, brass players and beyond, from all walks IWBC Contributors...............................18 Editors’ Corner OFFICIAL NEWSLETTER OF THE IWBC Jennifer Marotta - Editor Sandy Coffin - Assistant Editor IWBC President Joanna Hersey is a native Vermonter. Joanna studied with Dan Perantoni at Arizona [email protected] State University, received a Master of Music in Tuba Performance from the New England Conservatory of Music studying with Chester Schmitz, and earned her Doc- Articles and NoteWorthy tor of Musical Arts in Tuba Performance from the Hartt School. As Principal Tuba News Submissions with the United States Coast Guard Band, Joanna performed throughout the country Please contact the editors for all as a soloist and clinician after winning the position at the age of nineteen. Joanna has played for three U.S. Presidents, performed at numerous state functions for visiting potential article and NoteWorthy dignitaries, and has appeared on The Today Show and Good Morning America. In her News submissions. The editors freelance career, she has performed with artists including Placido Domingo, Roberta maintain final editorial rights Flack, Marilyn Horne, Arlo Guthrie, Michael Bolton, Lee Greenwood, Arturo Sando- over all materials. val and Jack Nicholson. Joanna is a founding member of the Athena Brass Band, a group first created for the 2003 International Women’s Brass Conference, which has since performed at the 2006, 2012, and 2014 IWBC Website Address IWBCs, and has been featured twice at the Great American Brass Band Festival in Danville, Kentucky. 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Watson in the Brass In Balance #3 September 2018 edition of Medical Problems of Performing Artists (Vol. 33, No. 3) entitled “Effect Suggestions for better health of using Ergobrass Ergonomic Supports on Postural Muscles in Trumpet, Trombone, and French Horn and balance in 2019 Players” determined that “statistically significant By Amy Cherry reductions (typically 15-30%) were present in many of the muscles when using the supports, though in Welcome to the New Year-- that optimistic, overzealous time of making promises some players they were much larger.” Even if the for the next twelve months. This edition of Brass in Balance presents reminders Ergobrass (www.ergobrass.com) system might not to attend to your individual well-being throughout the coming year. You will also be for you, consider tools that can make the physical find opportunities to promote better health and wellness in the broader musical act of playing easier. Laurel Ohlson mentioned community. My suggestions are offered in a calendar arrangement to line up with two items in the last edition of Brass in Balance: future or seasonal events, but any time is a good time to take care of yourself a foot block and the Tush Cush. A newer device and support others around you. I hope the suggestions are helpful and, as always, helps trumpet players like me with small hands I welcome your thoughts on topics we can discuss in this forum. Please send gain more control over the third valve slide (www. comments to [email protected]. trumpetgapper.com). Or check out the variety of trombone grip supports available.