Research Room

The 49th Annual International Trumpet Guild Conference
Salt Lake City, Utah

The ITG Research Room Committee invites proposals for research presentations at the 49th International Trumpet Guild Conference in Salt Lake City, Utah (USA), May 27–31, 2025. 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 all 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 to 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 PDF 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). End-notes, 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, 2024, at 11:59 p.m. (Eastern Standard Time, GMT-5). Submissions will be reviewed by a panel of experts. Accepted presenters will be notified around or before December 15. Questions should be directed via email to the ITG Research Room chair, Dr. Fred Sienkiewicz: [email protected]