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CBA(Ontario) Expert's AdviceWelcome to the Expert's Advice area! Based on your questions asked to our CBA(ON) experts you will receive invaluable information.
Brass Tips The first Expert area, Brass Tips, is hosted by Stephen Chenette. Steve got a cornet for his 7th birthday, but had no private lessons until he was fifteen. By then, he had acquired lots of bad habits. His first lessons, with Rafael Mendez, got him started on the right track, and Steve went on to study with the principal trumpeters of the New York Philharmonic, Philadelphia Orchestra, and Boston Symphony, plus the noted pedagogue, Arnold Jacobs. Steve played in major orchestras for sixteen years, including principal trumpet with the Minneapolis Symphony (now renamed the Minnesota Orchestra), the Boston Pops, Denver Symphony, and St. Paul Chamber Orchestra. He is Professor Emeritus at the Faculty of Music, University of Toronto, where, for twenty-nine years, he was Professor of Trumpet, Head of Brass, and conductor of the Concert Band and Wind Symphony. Steve will answer brass questions (but not about specific brands of trumpets or mouthpieces). Write to him at brasstips@cba-ontario.ca . Click here for Brass Tips #1 ______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________ Woodwind Tips The latest Expert Area, Woodwind Tips, is hosted by David Bourque David Bourque has played bass clarinet in the Toronto Symphony since 1983. He has also played with the National Arts Centre Orchestra. L’Orchestre Symphonique de Montreal, National Ballet and Canadian Opera Company Orchestras and at the Stratford Festival. David is Instructor of Clarinet and Bass Clarinet, University of
Toronto, Faculty of Music, Faculty, National Youth Orchestra of Canada, Faculty, Orford Arts Music, Visiting Lecturer, Jacobs School of Music, Indiana
University, Adjudicator, YouTube Symphony Orchestra II. He is the Music Director of the Northdale concert Band in Toronto. He can be reached through his website www.davidbourque.ca Click here for Woodwind Tips #1
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