Research Room
The 50th Annual International Trumpet Guild Conference
Rochester, NY (USA)
The Results are In…
Paper Presentations
Sam Oatts, From Classical to Country: Expanding Trumpet’s Role Through Genre Fusion: a Compositional and Performance Framework for Genre Syncretization
Drew O’Dell, The Development Of Twenty-First Century Accessibility Technology for Trumpeters with Right-Hand Injuries and Disabilities: A Case Study
Virtual Paper+Poster Presenters
James Sherry, Fireworks: The Life and Career of Los Angeles Trumpeter Joseph Valenti (virtual only)
Joseph Moore, The Sonata for B-flat Trumpet and Piano by Burnet Corwin Tuthill: A Guide to Performance Practice
Wing Heng Victor Yuen, Rediscovering Late-Romantic Germanic Trumpet Concertos: A Comparative Analysis of 1930s Trumpet Concertos by Karl Pilss and Oscar Geier
Additional Poster Presentations
Jim Thornton, What Note Would Louis Armstrong Play
Andrew J Dunn, Closed-end wind instruments: Choices for students
Carter Glass, Understanding the bookends of Red Nichols’ career through touring
Enjoy the Research Room Presentations!
Applications for the 2026 Research Room are now closed.
The ITG Research Room Committee invites proposals for research presentations at the 50th International Trumpet Guild Conference in Rochester, NY (USA), May 26-30, 2026. Research Room offers a blind, peer-reviewed, international forum for students, professors, performers, industry professionals, and others to present experimental, action, qualitative, or quantitative research involving trumpet performance, repertoire, history, and/or pedagogy. Presentations should represent an original contribution to the field, based on primary sources or empirical evidence.
Submissions will be evaluated by double-blind peer review. The highest-rated submissions will be selected for a fifteen-minute oral presentation in the Research Room paper session. Additional submissions may be selected to present a fifteen-minute pre-recorded virtual presentation and/or present an academic poster at the Research Room poster session. Recordings of presentations, posters, and all accompanying materials will be published as an open-access resource through the ITG website. Presenters benefit from sharing their work with the ITG community at the conference and in publication on the ITG Website. This visibility and networking may pave the way for future collaborations, both nationally and internationally.
Researchers should submit a 500-word abstract of the research, in Word (.doc/.docx) format, clearly articulating the (1) thesis/purpose, (2) methodology and/or analytical framework(s) employed, (3) data and/or primary sources used, (4) conclusions drawn, and (5) relevance of the work to the field.
Please include a bibliography and any figures or tables that might be relevant for the committee to understand the nature and quality of your work. For citations within the abstract, use author-date endnotes (e.g., Tarr, 2008). Endnotes, bibliography, and any accompanying figures do not count toward the 500-word limit. Review examples of successful prior abstracts at https://trumpetguild.org/resources/research-room.
The deadline for submission is November 1, 2025, at 11:59 p.m. A panel of experts will review submissions. Accepted presenters will be notified around or before January 5, 2026. Questions should be directed via email to the ITG Research Room Chair.
