Edward Carroll on Giving Yourself Permission to Play the Music You Love

In this segment from our interview with Edward Carroll at Chosen Vale in the summer of 2018, he discusses the importance of giving students permission to find their voice and play the music they love. Edward Carroll is a 2020 Ictus International Music Competition Jury Member (www.ictusmusic....) Mr. Carroll serves as Professor of Trumpet and Coordinator of Brass Studies at the California Institute of the Arts) Professor at the Bard College Conservatory of Music, and as a Senior Lecturer at Dartmouth College. Edward Carroll is the Director of the Center for Advanced Musical Studies at Chosen Vale, (www.chosenvale...) and was responsible for the music programming of the California State Summer School of the Arts from 2006-2008. He also chaired the commissioning committee of the International Trumpet Guild (ITG) from 2005 - 2011. Mr. Carroll has served as Principal Trumpet of the Rotterdam Philharmonic (James Conlon, Jeffrey Tate, and Valery Gergiev, Music Directors), the San Diego Symphony (David Atherton), and as Associate Principal Trumpet of the Houston Symphony (Lawrence Foster), touring most of the world’s major concert halls and festivals, and recording for Sony, EMI, Virgin, and Erato. A frequent guest with the Chamber Music Society of Lincoln Center, Edward Carroll directed, recorded, and toured with the New York Trumpet Ensemble from 1979 to 1988. He is a frequent adjudicator of international competitions, including Porcia (Italy), Rangsit (Thailand), at the Central Conservatory (Beijing), chair of the Ellsworth Smith (Provo), Concert Artists Guild, Young Concert Artists, and Chamber Music America.
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[@RW-ob4en]

What a nice guy with a philosophy that is uplifting to behold. Having taught instrumental music in public schools for 33 years it really resonated with me his point about “being told what to do”.
Institutionally I get it.
But For the sake of the individuals affected I chafe at this point of departure esp as it is perpetuated well beyond the point of students lacking existing knowledge or context. Culturally we’ve done well at quelling natural curiosity concurrently with attaching some onerous cloud over “school”, “learning”, etc.
I’ll stop…rabbit hole for this guy.

[@lefthandwarlock8503]

I think the same way. Could’ve used you as my trumpet teacher lol. Do you find that your answers are frustrating to some?
You sound like an INFJ.