Chris Branagan

TMEA 2008

We’re getting ready to head to San Antonio (although some of us are already there) and are looking forward to seeing old friends and meeting many new ones. Once again, we’ll have Leonard Candelaria, Paul Tynan, and Bill Takacs helping out with the trumpets. Chris Branagan, Christan Griego, and Joshua Brown will be working with...

Behind the Scenes at Alessi Seminar III

by Chris Branagan NYACK, NY – The Alessi Seminar is now in its third year in the US. I had the pleasure of sitting down with Joe Alessi to discuss his motivations for doing a festival of this kind, and to gain a little insight into what goes into a workshop of this size and...

ITF 2002: Tales from the Edwards Booth

by Chris Branagan From the outside, the College of Music at the University of North Texas looked like any other big music school. But once you passed through the doors, you could tell something was different about this place. There were no sounds of clarinets, vocalists, or saxophone players, but the building was not quiet....