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
Extracurricular Programs (Chicagoland, during the academic year)
Chicago Youth Symphony Orchestra (academic year)
Complete Trombonist Workshop (August)
Elgin Youth Symphony Orchestra
Midwest Young Artists Conservatory (year-round)
Naperville Youth Symphony Orchestra (academic year)
Summer Music Programs
Blue Lake Fine Arts Camp (June-August)
Birch Creek Music Performance Center (July)
Eastman Summer Trombone Workshop (July/August)
Illinois Low Brass Institute (August)
Illinois Summer Youth Music (June/July)
Midwest Young Artists Conservatory
University of Wisconsin-Madison Summer Music Clinic (June-July)