Latest News and Events
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Members are reminded that nominations for the next Christopher Monk Award should be received by the Chairman of the Christopher Monk Award Committee by February 1, 2020. Details of the award and the processes attached to it can be found under the ‘Awards’ tab of this site.
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12/10/2019
As the organization continues to grow and evolve, we are reaching out to members - present, past and potential - and to colleagues in the brass performance, research, instrument making and collecting community to ask for your input in shaping the future of HBS. We’d be grateful for ten to fifteen minutes of your time to complete the survey in the link below. It addresses HBS governance structure and terms, the HBS Journal, website and newsletter.
To make sure your voice is heard, please complete the survey by 10 February.
Please feel free to share the link to this survey and this email with any colleagues or friends whom you think might be interested. We want to hear from as many people who are interested in the history of brass instruments, brass literature, performance practice, etc. as possible, not just current and former members.
On behalf of the Board of the Historic Brass Society, many thanks for your help and all best wishes for the New Year.
Historic Brass Society Board Members:
Alexander Bonus
Stewart Carter
Jason Dovel
Sabine Klaus
Steven Lundahl
Arnold Myers
Jeffrey Nussbaum
Bradley Strauchen
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The 2020 edition of the trumpet-building course taught by Bob Barclay will again take place in Cambridge, UK, on July 4-8. As always, participants will make a reproduction of a 1632 natural trumpet by Hainlein. Further information on this educational (and fun) experience is available at the Cambridge Woodwind Makers website.
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It is with great sadness that we inform the HBS membership of the unexpected passing on July 11, 2019, of Dr. Joella F. Utley, wife of the late Dr. Joe Roy Utley (1935–2001). -
On June 12, 2019, Metropolitan Museum musical instrument curators Bradley Strauchen and Herbert Heyde were joined by trumpeter Frank Hosticka, saxophonist Paul Cohen, and HBS President Jeff Nussbaum on an excursion to view Scott Robinson’s eclectic instrument collection housed in every nook and cranny of his home in New Jersey.