This page will be updated once in a while; check back for more. Last update: 11/1/21
Practice Tools & Online Lesson Tools
Warmups, Fundamentals, & Other Exercises
Listening & Viewing
Luke Malewicz plays the ILMEA Jazz Etudes
Low Brass U - Play along and demonstration videos on all low brass instruments
Suggested Jazz Listening from Naperville North High School
Jazz Play Along Videos
Instruments, Instrument Supplies, Repair Shops
Guide to picking a new trombone
Recommended Instrument Supplies
Chicagoland Brass Repair Shops
Dana Hofer Brass Repair (Des Plaines)
Evanston Band & Orchestra (Skokie)
Keith Polito Brass Repair (Elgin)
Chicagoland Brass Instrument & Sheet Music Shops
These shops may also offer repairs, but I have not used their services.
Horn Stash (Palatine)
PM Music Center (Aurora)
Quinlan & Fabish (Burr Ridge, Arlington Heights, etc.)
Windy City Trombones (Burr Ridge)
Other Brass Instrument & Sheet Music Shops
Brass Exchange (Kirkwood, MO) - excellent selection of used instruments curated by St. Louis trombonist Doug Bert
Dillon Music (Woodbridge, NJ) - exhaustive selection of new and used instruments, mouthpieces, and supplies
Hickey’s Music (Ithaca, NY) - one of the best collections of brass sheet music, as well as mouthpieces and accessories
Horn Guys (Pasadena, CA) - excellent selection of new and used instruments run by LA freelance trombonist Steve Ferguson
Music Camps & Extracurricular Programs
Birch Creek Music Performance Center (July)
Blue Lake Fine Arts Camp (June-August)
Chicago Youth Symphony Orchestra (academic year)
Complete Trombonist Workshop (August)
Eastman Summer Trombone Workshop (July/August)
Elgin Youth Symphony Orchestra (academic year)
Illinois Low Brass Institute (August)
Illinois Summer Youth Music (June/July)
Midwest Young Artists Conservatory (year-round)
Naperville Youth Symphony Orchestra (academic year)