Brass Day

Saturday, Jan. 25, 2025
8:30am–5pm - REVISED TIMES

Participation

Open to brass enthusiasts of all ages and levels

Cost

$30 (+HST=$33.90)
Includes pizza lunch
Free for current Western Music students and Western Youth Wind Ensemble members

Location

Music Building
Western University

1151 Richmond St

London ON N6A 3K7

Directions

Registration

Saturday, January 25, 2025 | 8:30am–5pm*

*REVISED TIMES

Join us for Brass Day at the Don Wright Faculty of Music! A full day of events and activities for trumpet, horn, trombone, tuba, and baritone/euphonium enthusiasts of all ages.

Planned activities include lessons and clinics, masterclasses, workshops, a vendor room, a guest artist recital, performances from Western Music brass faculty, and even a pizza lunch!

This year's guest artist is David Cooper, Associate Principal Horn of the Los Angeles Philharmonic.

Masterclasses, workshops, lessons and clinics with Western Music faculty and students
Instrument trials and sponsor exhibitions
An included pizza lunch
A finale concert^* featuring guest artist David Cooper plus Western Music brass faculty Aaron Hodgson and Shawn Spicer, trumpets; Ron George, horn; Denis Jiron, trombone; and Brent Adams, tuba
...and more! View schedule

Please note:

Participants should bring their instrument
Participants can bring a piece of music for a potential mini-lesson, and some workshops may encourage participation in a masterclass style

^*Finale concert is free and open to the public. Note updated time!

Registration

$30 (+HST=$33.90). Includes pizza lunch.

*Free for current Western Music students
*Free for Western Youth Wind Ensemble members

HST number: 10816 2587 RT0001

Guest artist

David Cooper

Associate Principal Horn
Los Angeles Philharmonic

David Cooper is the Associate Principal Horn of the Los Angeles Philharmonic. Prior to his LA Phil appointment, he was principal horn of the Chicago Symphony Orchestra appointed by Zell Music Director Riccardo Muti in 2019, and principal horn of the Dallas Symphony, a position he held since May 2013 after joining the symphony as third horn in 2011. He also served as principal horn of the Berlin Philharmonic from 2017–18; acting principal horn with the Victoria Symphony in Victoria, British Columbia, from 2006–08; and co-associate principal horn of the Fort Worth Symphony from 2008–11. He has been guest principal horn of the Philadelphia Orchestra, New York Philharmonic, Los Angeles Philharmonic, London Symphony Orchestra, Hong Kong Philharmonic, Baltimore Symphony, Saint Paul Chamber Orchestra and Liceu Opera in Barcelona, Spain. Cooper is an avid chamber musician and performs as a soloist all over the world. David Cooper is Artist Faculty at Roosevelt University and has given masterclasses in America, Asia, Europe and Australia. He began his horn studies with Dale Bartlett in Lansing, Michigan coming from a horn-playing family, where both his uncle and grandmother performed as professional horn players in the Lansing Symphony. While still in high school, Cooper began performing with the Michigan State University orchestra and later went on to attend the Curtis Institute of Music, where he earned his bachelor's degree in music. While at Curtis, Cooper received a Tanglewood Fellowship and later spent three consecutive summers at Marlboro Music Festival in Vermont beginning in 2011. He studied with Jerome Ashby while at the Curtis Institute of Music, and Eric Ruske was his main teacher after leaving Curtis. In his free time, Cooper enjoys being a father in addition to doing Pilates and swimming. He loves animals and being outdoors.

2025 Schedule

Room locations will be supplied on arrival.

8:30am- 9am	Registration
9:00am- 9:30am	Group warmup
9:30am- 10:15am	Brass ensemble reading session
10:15am-10:30am	Sponsor introduction
10:30am-12pm	Guest artist masterclass with David Cooper
11am-12:30pm	Exhibit areas open for viewing
12:30- 1:30pm	Lunch hour, mini-lessons and exhibitors
1:30pm- 2:30pm	Impact Brass and faculty quintet concert
2:30pm- 3:50pm	Afternoon classes
4pm- 5pm	Final concert (end-time approximate)