This session explores how Chicago school brass pedagogy, especially Arnold Jacobs’s song and wind concepts, can inform practical brass fundamentals in today’s ensembles. Designed for a mixed audience with a specific focus on brass, the clinic connects historical brass pedagogy with current research on motor learning, external focus, and inclusive teaching practice. Participants will engage in guided listening, audiation, optional playing, and rehearsal based demonstrations that translate these ideas into immediately usable warmups, cue language, and troubleshooting strategies for diverse school and studio settings.
Target Audience
Elementary through High School band directors, studio instructors
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Clinician Info
Brent Williams
Brent Williams is an instrumental music educator with the Panama‑Buena Vista Union School District in Bakersfield, California, freelance trumpeter, and adjunct trumpet professor at California State University, Bakersfield. A first‑call trumpet player in California’s Central Valley, he performs regularly with a wide variety of ensembles and maintains an active private studio in Bakersfield. His teaching and research focus on brass fundamentals, the Chicago school of brass pedagogy, and research‑informed approaches to motor learning and performance wellness. He is currently pursuing a Certificate of Advanced Graduate Study from Boston University.