Mountain LIght Music Festival - 2017
Mountain Light Music Festival - 2015
The Mission
The Mountain Light Music Seminar (Trombone Summit) will facilitate the improvement of professional ability and skill related to performance and teaching at a very high level. We will focus on peak performance and applied study/chamber coaching. This intensive one week music seminar will serve as a positive scholarly and creative endeavor with multiple faculty collaborating artistically, spiritually and academically. Participants (invited to audition) will participate in individual lessons, trombone quartet and choir performances as well as mock auditions. Time will be spent discussing teaching techniques and developing a school of teaching and developing undergraduate curriculum. We will begin each day with a morning warm up at altitude and break out into classes covering, mental toughness, audition preparation, teaching techniques, collegiate interviewing, recruiting a studio and forming
creative research goals.
Clinics will include:
“The Power of Positive Rituals”
“Energy Clinic”
“Developing a strong performance resume”
“Recruiting the very best”
“Building Leadership within a studio”
“Mental Toughness”
“Initiation of college students”
“Perseverance through Adversity”
We will be performing in several venues throughout the Pagosa Springs Colorado area as a trombone choir and select quartets. Each day there will be master classes, solo recitals and intensive musical study. We will also work on section playing and discuss how to handle interpersonal section dynamics.
There will be several faculty and guest artists/speakers throughout the week. This seminar is unique from a spiritual and physical standpoint and will transform your approach to life, music and work.
Background
I have been teaching at Baylor for ten years now and I have envisioned a week long summit that would help engage younger faculty and elite performers on topics related to our craft. In addition, I feel compelled to lead discussions on topics involving the initiation of men into a world of adventure, art and creativity. I will use wilderness, the Mountain Light Lodge along with my experiences as a mentor, performer, teacher, father and husband. I do not in any way profess expertise in all of these areas. In fact, I have made significant mistakes along the way. Perhaps you have too. I would like to host the Mountain Light Music Festival (Trombone Summit) to help bring former and current students together along with other faculty to pursue our craft as teachers, mentors and performers. I have found that transference of experience, wisdom and knowledge within the dynamics of an applied teaching studio to be a powerful learning tool. This seminar will provide participants the ability to work along side other faculty, former students and current teaching fellows in an environment of performance, study and discovery. Many of the topics will depart from the typical "conference" model. My desire is to delve deeper into the spiritual and personal.
I have been studying the works of Malcolm Gladwell (Outliers, David and Goliath), Daniel Pink (Drive), Daniel Coyle (The Talent Code), Norman MacLean (On the Big Blackfoot, Young Men and Fire and A River Runs Through It), John Eldridge (Wild at Heart, Journey of Desire) and Robert Bly (Society of Siblings, The Power of Shame, The Masculine Road: The Red, White and Black and Iron John). I would like to delve deeper into the questions surrounding the initiation of young men and Christian principles dealing with masculinity and mentor-ship. I believe ultimately that these attributes are expressed through teaching and performing music. After all, it was Beethoven who said that "music is a higher revelation than all wisdom and philosophy."
The Mountain Light Music Festival will take place at the Mountain Light Lodge in Pagosa Springs Colorado under the parent 501c3 outfitter/guide service Voice of the Wilderness. Voice of the Wilderness is a premiere Christian oriented guide service that has been in operation for 42 years with all privileges, insurance, liability, US Forest Service permits, gear and guides. I have been participating on VOW trips since I was nine years old. I am guiding a father-son trip with my two boys through VOW in mid July. Voice of the Wilderness is one of the most experienced and well respected guide services in Colorado. I invite you to take a look at all of the other trips they are offering. VOW is now running trips in Idaho, Grand Canyon, Boundary Waters and has also led treks into the Himalayas. The founder of VOW is Chet Russell. He is a legend in wilderness survival and mountaineering as well as a revolutionary product designer and entrepreneur. He holds many patents, has outfitted multimillion dollar oil companies for arctic exploration and designed products for Marmot, North Face and other international gear companies. Chet will be leading our overnight trek into the wilderness and will be available throughout the week to discuss geologic and historic interests in the Pagosa area. Chet played a very important mentoring role in my life as I began to work for him while still in college. He taught me how to build a business, sell, market, finish a task, delegate and deal with adversity - all of this I am grateful for and use as part of my skill set today. You will want to spend time with him around the fire and at the lodge (that he built)...
Specific goals
This festival will facilitate master classes, clinics, concert performances and ultimately opportunities for faculty, former students and current up and coming junior faculty and performers to explore scholarship/creative research opportunities. We will discuss the following practical applications:
• Forming a performance CV
• Collegiate job interviews in applied study
• Developing a school of teaching within a studio
• Cultivating successful inner studio dynamics
• Teaching techniques
• Audition techniques/skills, Mock audition
• Developing a performance track
• Making a CD (labels, marketing, Pro-Tools and CD mastering)
• Making a winning summer music festival/graduate school audition recording
• Participants and faculty will perform solo recitals and trombone choir and quartet recitals in !various venues in Pagosa Springs
Physical challenge
We will backpack for a day and a night into the wilderness - why - because we spend too much time standing in line at Starbucks ordering things like a half caff skinny Mocha-choca-latta. Instead we will be drinking Cowboy coffee filtered through hiking socks... We will attempt to catch trout in a high mountain stream.
• We will warm up every morning at the lodge which is at 9,400 feet!
• We will hike every day with our trombones to a scenic overlook to play the "Ride" - "Nabucco" and "Locus Iste" just to see how long the reverb lasts.
• We will spend time soaking in the Pagosa Springs natural hot springs
• We will help cut several cords of wood for the upcoming winter season
Faculty
Brent Phillips - Baylor University, Principal Trombone ~ Waco Symphony, Abilene Philharmonic
Thomas Hulten - Principal Trombone ~ Houston Grand Opera, Houston Ballet and faculty at the University of Houston
What if I don't own a backpack or tent?
All gear is provided except the following:
The Mountain Light Music Seminar (Trombone Summit) will facilitate the improvement of professional ability and skill related to performance and teaching at a very high level. We will focus on peak performance and applied study/chamber coaching. This intensive one week music seminar will serve as a positive scholarly and creative endeavor with multiple faculty collaborating artistically, spiritually and academically. Participants (invited to audition) will participate in individual lessons, trombone quartet and choir performances as well as mock auditions. Time will be spent discussing teaching techniques and developing a school of teaching and developing undergraduate curriculum. We will begin each day with a morning warm up at altitude and break out into classes covering, mental toughness, audition preparation, teaching techniques, collegiate interviewing, recruiting a studio and forming
creative research goals.
Clinics will include:
“The Power of Positive Rituals”
“Energy Clinic”
“Developing a strong performance resume”
“Recruiting the very best”
“Building Leadership within a studio”
“Mental Toughness”
“Initiation of college students”
“Perseverance through Adversity”
We will be performing in several venues throughout the Pagosa Springs Colorado area as a trombone choir and select quartets. Each day there will be master classes, solo recitals and intensive musical study. We will also work on section playing and discuss how to handle interpersonal section dynamics.
There will be several faculty and guest artists/speakers throughout the week. This seminar is unique from a spiritual and physical standpoint and will transform your approach to life, music and work.
Background
I have been teaching at Baylor for ten years now and I have envisioned a week long summit that would help engage younger faculty and elite performers on topics related to our craft. In addition, I feel compelled to lead discussions on topics involving the initiation of men into a world of adventure, art and creativity. I will use wilderness, the Mountain Light Lodge along with my experiences as a mentor, performer, teacher, father and husband. I do not in any way profess expertise in all of these areas. In fact, I have made significant mistakes along the way. Perhaps you have too. I would like to host the Mountain Light Music Festival (Trombone Summit) to help bring former and current students together along with other faculty to pursue our craft as teachers, mentors and performers. I have found that transference of experience, wisdom and knowledge within the dynamics of an applied teaching studio to be a powerful learning tool. This seminar will provide participants the ability to work along side other faculty, former students and current teaching fellows in an environment of performance, study and discovery. Many of the topics will depart from the typical "conference" model. My desire is to delve deeper into the spiritual and personal.
I have been studying the works of Malcolm Gladwell (Outliers, David and Goliath), Daniel Pink (Drive), Daniel Coyle (The Talent Code), Norman MacLean (On the Big Blackfoot, Young Men and Fire and A River Runs Through It), John Eldridge (Wild at Heart, Journey of Desire) and Robert Bly (Society of Siblings, The Power of Shame, The Masculine Road: The Red, White and Black and Iron John). I would like to delve deeper into the questions surrounding the initiation of young men and Christian principles dealing with masculinity and mentor-ship. I believe ultimately that these attributes are expressed through teaching and performing music. After all, it was Beethoven who said that "music is a higher revelation than all wisdom and philosophy."
The Mountain Light Music Festival will take place at the Mountain Light Lodge in Pagosa Springs Colorado under the parent 501c3 outfitter/guide service Voice of the Wilderness. Voice of the Wilderness is a premiere Christian oriented guide service that has been in operation for 42 years with all privileges, insurance, liability, US Forest Service permits, gear and guides. I have been participating on VOW trips since I was nine years old. I am guiding a father-son trip with my two boys through VOW in mid July. Voice of the Wilderness is one of the most experienced and well respected guide services in Colorado. I invite you to take a look at all of the other trips they are offering. VOW is now running trips in Idaho, Grand Canyon, Boundary Waters and has also led treks into the Himalayas. The founder of VOW is Chet Russell. He is a legend in wilderness survival and mountaineering as well as a revolutionary product designer and entrepreneur. He holds many patents, has outfitted multimillion dollar oil companies for arctic exploration and designed products for Marmot, North Face and other international gear companies. Chet will be leading our overnight trek into the wilderness and will be available throughout the week to discuss geologic and historic interests in the Pagosa area. Chet played a very important mentoring role in my life as I began to work for him while still in college. He taught me how to build a business, sell, market, finish a task, delegate and deal with adversity - all of this I am grateful for and use as part of my skill set today. You will want to spend time with him around the fire and at the lodge (that he built)...
Specific goals
This festival will facilitate master classes, clinics, concert performances and ultimately opportunities for faculty, former students and current up and coming junior faculty and performers to explore scholarship/creative research opportunities. We will discuss the following practical applications:
• Forming a performance CV
• Collegiate job interviews in applied study
• Developing a school of teaching within a studio
• Cultivating successful inner studio dynamics
• Teaching techniques
• Audition techniques/skills, Mock audition
• Developing a performance track
• Making a CD (labels, marketing, Pro-Tools and CD mastering)
• Making a winning summer music festival/graduate school audition recording
• Participants and faculty will perform solo recitals and trombone choir and quartet recitals in !various venues in Pagosa Springs
Physical challenge
We will backpack for a day and a night into the wilderness - why - because we spend too much time standing in line at Starbucks ordering things like a half caff skinny Mocha-choca-latta. Instead we will be drinking Cowboy coffee filtered through hiking socks... We will attempt to catch trout in a high mountain stream.
• We will warm up every morning at the lodge which is at 9,400 feet!
• We will hike every day with our trombones to a scenic overlook to play the "Ride" - "Nabucco" and "Locus Iste" just to see how long the reverb lasts.
• We will spend time soaking in the Pagosa Springs natural hot springs
• We will help cut several cords of wood for the upcoming winter season
Faculty
Brent Phillips - Baylor University, Principal Trombone ~ Waco Symphony, Abilene Philharmonic
Thomas Hulten - Principal Trombone ~ Houston Grand Opera, Houston Ballet and faculty at the University of Houston
What if I don't own a backpack or tent?
All gear is provided except the following:
If you have been invited to participate and have sent in your audition materials please click on the "Make a Payment" link at the top.
If you are interested in participating, please contact Brent Phillips
If you are interested in participating, please contact Brent Phillips