Find everything Denise Tryon has done with The Brass Junkies: https://www.brassjunkies.com/denise-tryon Get something interesting from the world of brass every week in The Brass Junkies Newsletter: https://www.brassjunkies.com/newsletter Horn interviews, masterclasses, and resources: https://www.brassjunkies.com/horn Trumpet interviews, masterclasses, and resources: https://www.brassjunkies.com/trumpet On This Episode of The Brass Junkies: • Andrew speaks with hornist Denise Tryon, Professor of Horn at Indiana University and former Fourth Horn of The Philadelphia Orchestra, back on the show nine years after her first appearance • In the premiere of Career Corner, presented by Hitz Academy, Andrew speaks with Dr. Julia Bell, Assistant Professor of Trumpet at Texas Tech University and founder of the Magnolia Brass Quintet • Andrew's thoughts on the Phoenix Symphony suspending its season and laying off its musicians, and why your support should go directly to the musicians • On a scale of nine to 10, exactly how much Denise missed Andrew • Her brand new album, Borrowed Bach, featuring Bach Cello Suites 1 through 5 on horn, and the companion book • The first movement of the album that made Andrew stop working and say "wow" out loud • The childhood piano lessons where she only wanted to play Bach, much to her teacher's chagrin • Chuck Kavalovski introducing her to the Wendell Hoss transcription in college • The decision she made at 19 or 20 that became a lifelong, "somewhat nagging" project • The suggestion that led her to create her own transcription, and how she chose the key for each suite • Gail Williams's request that changed how the book is laid out • Why Suite No. 6 didn't make the cut • How the book is designed to encourage players to make their own choices instead of copying hers • Andrew's first lesson at Northwestern with Rex Martin and the two very different Glenn Gould recordings of the Goldberg Variations • The dance between technique and musicianship over a career, and the Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau recordings she has her students compare • The recording sessions that COVID and a series of setbacks postponed for years, and why she's glad she waited • Her approach to the repeats: first time as written, then adding ornamentation the second time • The Gavotte from Suite No. 5 that had her wondering what life decisions led her to that moment • The advice Sam Pilafian gave Andrew before he produced his first recording session • Working with engineer and producer Paul Eachus, a bass trombonist formerly of the Honolulu Symphony, and his rare gift for saying anything without her getting defensive • Why her best takes came when she let go, and the instinct to drive with your foot hovering over the brake • What she did 15 minutes into that Gavotte to get herself to the finish line • The pizza place discovery she credits as her secret sauce for keeping her face fresh • Recording in a church in Nashville, Indiana, its tree of life stained glass window, and why they ended up using the microphones closest to her • Why Borrowed Bach is the recording she's most proud of • The post-project slump her husband sees coming every single time • Why all of her students now play out of Bach, and the composer she begged not to write in her every nuance • Teaching creative problem solvers instead of teaching to the test • Why your job in an audition is to sell people on you, and Andrew's first date analogy • The advice from a colleague in her 30s that changed how she thought about her career • Being comfortable being different, and making a slower tempo convincing • The difference between an earned slowdown to breathe and a convenient one • Her train analogy for breathing in fast Bach movements (and the one train stop not to emulate) • Breathing as a low horn specialist, and Andrew's recommendation that everyone be 6'4" • The next recording project she might already be planning for this summer • What Andrew loves most about Denise's approach to music and to life • Career Corner: the simple theme that runs through everything Julia has done in her career so far • How her goal of an orchestral career evolved during her master's degree • What she did once she figured out what a trumpet professor's job actually requires • How she started a brass quintet with four women she had never met • Why you should apply even when you're sure you won't get the job • Andrew's seventh-grade audition for the Junior Massachusetts Youth Wind Ensemble, and why you should never say no for other people • Why seasoned players can tell right away when someone is driven and asking the right questions • All seven of Andrew's conversations with Julia are coming to The Brass Junkies YouTube channel Links: Phoenix Symphony Musicians on Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/phoenixsymphonymusicians Musicians of the Phoenix Symphony: https://musiciansofthephoenixsymphony.org/ Borrowed Bach on Navona Records: https://www.navonarecords.com/catalog/nv6901/ Borrowed Bach on YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=OLAK5uy_mj5h5taGDvS7Gp1BND9ZaGO82tkrFb30o Bach Cello Suites I-V for Horn, Transcribed by Denise Tryon: https://denisetryon.com/product/bach-cello-suites-i-v-for-horn-transcribed-by-denise-tryon/ Denise Tryon: https://denisetryon.com/ TBJ67, Denise's first appearance: https://www.brassjunkies.com/episodes/episode67 TEM174: Sam Pilafian on Producing: https://www.tem.fm/blog/tem174 Dr. Julia Bell at Texas Tech University: https://www.depts.ttu.edu/music/aboutus/faculty/julia-bell.php Gail Williams on The Brass Junkies: https://www.brassjunkies.com/gail-williams Parker Mouthpieces: https://parkermouthpieces.com
