Trumpet Jobs

Proship Entertainment, Inc.

Cruise Ship’s Orchestra Trumpet Seat: The orchestra trumpet player, aka
sideman, aka showband musician, is a member of the show orchestra
performing and supporting all main stage performances. You’ve studied
music? You can sight-read? You can improvise? You have a well-developed
high register? Proship has opportunities for you now.

–
Eric Simpson
Recruiter

Proship Entertainment, Inc.
Tel:514.485.8823 ext.237
Fax:514.485.2675
Web: http://www.proship.com
980 St. Antoine Street West, Suite #710
Montreal, Quebec, Canada H3C 1A8

Proship.Com

Proship.Com

Great Work For University Trumpet Players!! I funded my way thru school on the cruise ships. The gigs are not too demanding, the pay is reasonable and I got to see most of the world. Great for sight reading and to study for the upcoming year.

Go to www.proship.com and contact them. If they ask, tell them that Jeff from Vancouver, B.C. sent ya!! I enjoyed the work and still go out for 2 or three weeks at a time to take a paid holiday to play the trumpet! www.proship.com

The US Army Concert Band

Hello Everyone,

I’m writing to you about our audition coming up in January 2010 for a trumpet opening in The US Army Concert Band. You and your colleagues and students may have noticed it in the union paper, and it is also posted on the Army Band website,

http://www.usarmyband.com/jobs/vacancy_-_trumpet_-_army_concert_band.html.

Our principal solo cornet/trumpet/bugler, Woody English will be retiring in the spring of 2010 after more than 33 years of distingushed service. Terry Bingham is our new principal player, leaving a new opening in the Concert Band　section. The winner of this position will be invited to participate in an in-house audition for the Army Brass Quintet, to be held in late January, 2010. The starting salary for this position is $51,000 (without dependents) or $58,000 (with dependents), plus medical and dental benfits, permanent assignment in Washington, DC, 30 days paid vacation per year, and　student loan repayment up to $65,000. (The winning candidate must be able to enter active service before their 42nd birthday.)

I hope that any of your professional colleages and/or qualified students　who are interested will take a look at the website and submit an application packet by October 30th, 2009. The audition will be held at Fort Myer, VA on January 7th-8th, 2010.

Thanks everyone for your time and effort passing this on.

Best Wishes,

Gil Hoffer, SFC

The US Army Band, “Pershing’s Own”

Washington, DC

Graduate Assistantship in Trumpet: Oklahoma City University

The Wanda L. Bass School of Music at Oklahoma City University announces a Graduate Assistantship in Trumpet starting in August of 2008. Duties are to play in the Blackwelder Brass, a graduate brass quintet who’s duties include outreach concerts, university events and church residencies. This graduate assistant will also be expected to play in the university orchestra, wind ensemble and pit orchestra. The winner of this position will receive a full-tuition scholarship and a modest monthly stipend and added pay for church work on weekends. Additional work is available teaching private lessons and freelancing in Oklahoma City.
Recent literature performed by the University Orchestra: Pictures At An Exhibition, Capricio Espanole, Petrouschka and Bruckner 4.

The Wanda L. Bass School of Music at Oklahoma City University is renowned for its exceptional training of musicians in the liberal arts tradition. For 80 years, its graduates have been in demand as singers, conductors, composers, instrumentalists, educators, critics and commentators. School of Music alumni include Grammy, Tony, and Emmy Award winners.

The recently opened Wanda L. Bass Music Center, a $31.5 million, 117,000-square-foot addition more than doubles the size of the Bass School of Music. The Bass Music Center features 60 additional practice rooms, 40 new teaching studios, seven high-tech music labs, six ensemble rehearsal rooms, and a black-box theater. The expansion incorporates new advances in sound isolation and acoustical breakthroughs.

Oklahoma City University offers MM degrees in performance, composition and conducting. The school is a full member of the National Association of Schools of Music.

www.okcu.edu/music
For more information please contact:

Michael Anderson, Professor of Trumpet at:
manderson@okcu.edu or
Office: 405-521-5343
BIO- http://www.okcu.edu/music/faculty/manderson.asp

UNITED STATES AIR FORCE BAND OF THE WEST

The UNITED STATES AIR FORCE BAND OF THE WEST — 1 trumpet position with jazz improvisation emphasis and 1 trumpet position with classical/jazz background (2 positions total)

The Air Force Band of the West is a musical organization from San Antonio Texas that is located at Lackland Air Force Base. The Band of the West is comprised of over 45 talented musicians that come from some of the finest universities and conservatories in the United States and abroad. On a yearly basis, the Band of the West performs for over one million people throughout the states of Texas, Louisiana, New Mexico, and Arizona. United States Air Force Bands support the Air Force Mission by providing world-class musical products and services to support troop morale, recruiting, community relations, and the preservation of our National Heritage.

Job Description

Perform with the USAF Band of the West Concert Band and Ceremonial Band as well as one or more of the following small groups: Dimensions in Blue Jazz Ensemble, Brass Quintet, and Warhawk (Popular Music Group).
Salary/Benefits

Salary can start as high as $34,000 (no dependents) with full military benefits, including complete medical and dental care and 30 days paid vacation per year. Under the College Loan Repayment Program, participants can receive repayment up to $10,000. Under the Post-9/11 Bill, participants can enroll in an educational assistance program that provides up to 36 months of benefits to eligible personnel for education and training opportunities. These benefits may be used for undergraduate and graduate degree programs, books, supplies and monthly housing, and may be transferred to spouses or dependent children.

Please submit a current resume and a 15-20 minute screening CD. Please include selections that will thoroughly demonstrate your tone, flexibility, range, intonation and rhythmic accuracy as well as contain excerpts/samples of your best playing (solo or with ensemble.) Selections must be recorded within the last two years.

Individuals will be selected for live audition based upon performance on the screening CD. This audition will be held at Lackland Air Force Base in San Antonio, Texas.

Screening packets must be postmarked by 1 September and sent to:

USAF Band of the West
Attention: Auditions Department
1680 Barnes Av.
Lackland AFB, TX 78236-5500

For complete information about the USAF Band of the West and the audition please visit our website at www.bandofthewest.af.mil or contact: SrA Chantelle Friedman, Auditions Coordinator, chantelle.friedman@lackland.af.mil at 210-671-3934.