Philip Jameson Explained

Philip Jameson

Philip Jameson (born December 7, 1941, in Wooster, Ohio) graduated from Wooster High School in 1959 and attended Baldwin Wallace College for one year.

Education

In the fall of 1960 he was accepted by audition to The Juilliard School of Music on a full scholarship. He was subsequently appointed principal trombone with the Juilliard Orchestra, a position he held for the next five years. He graduated from Juilliard with a Bachelor of Music Degree in 1964 and a Master of Science degree in 1965. He then enrolled in Columbia University (NYC) and received a Master of Music Education Degree in 1967 and completed his Doctorate of Music in 1980. His PhD dissertation was entitled "The effect of timbre conditions on the prompted and simultaneous pitch matching of three ability groups of trombone performers". It is available from Dissertation Abstracts.

Career

Jameson was the professor of trombone and music at the University of Georgia, where he founded the UGA Brass Quintet and the UGA Trombone Choir in the fall of 1967 to the spring of 2009, retiring as Distinguished Professor Emeritus. He is a lifetime member of the International Trombone Association and has had numerous articles published in the ITA Journal. Jameson is listed in The International Who's Who in Music,[1] Fifteenth Edition, International Biographical Center, Cambridge, England, and Who's Who in American Music. Former students have earned places in major performing organizations across the world. During his tenure at the University of Georgia, former students substituted in orchestras ranging from the New York Philharmonic to the San Francisco Symphony. Jameson has been a significant teacher in the world of trombone.

He was a charter member of Leopold Stokowski's American Symphony Orchestra at Carnegie Hall and the Mostly Mozart Orchestra at New York's Lincoln Center. He has also performed with the New York City Ballet, the Band of America, the Musica Aeterna Orchestra at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, the Radio City Music Hall Orchestra, and the American Wind Symphony Orchestra. He was a Fromm Foundation Fellow with the Boston Symphony Orchestra at Tanglewood, the recipient of the Juilliard School Naumburg Prize, the Sarah Moss Fellowship for doctoral study at Columbia University, and a Senior Fulbright Professorship with the National Symphony Orchestra of Korea. While on sabbaticals, he held teaching appointments at the Juilliard School, the Horace Mann School, the Queensland Conservatorium of Music(Australia), and Seoul National University. He was actively engaged in acoustical research, and presented many papers in this area at national symposiums.

In 2005 trombone students of Jameson at the University of Georgia won three major trombone solo competitions in the US. David Nelson won first place in the US Army/ Eastern Trombone Workshop National Solo Competition in Washington D.C. Charles Reneau won first place at the International Trombone Association Solo Competition in New Orleans and the Zellmer International Trombone Competition Sponsored by the Minnesota Symphony Orchestra. Two of the four current trombonists with the New York Philharmonic, James Markey and Amanda Stewart Davidson, were students of his at the Interlochen Arts Camp, where he taught from 1984 to 2004. Other students who have studied with Jameson at the University of Georgia have attained professional positions with the major orchestras including: the St. Louis Symphony, Gerry Pagano; the Oregon Symphony Orchestra, Charles Reneau; and Steve Norrell of the Metropolitan Opera Orchestra.

The University of Georgia Trombone Choir

Jameson is the founder (1967) of the University of Georgia Trombone Choir. Under Jameson's direction, his trombone students form the University of Georgia Trombone Choir, one of the longest-standing premier trombone ensembles in the United States. In recognition of his teaching excellence and musical direction, the trombone choir has received regular invitations to perform at both National and International conferences, several of which are listed below.

13 Invited Ensemble Performances at the International TromboneAssociation's Eastern Trombone Workshop, 1975 - 2007.U.S. Army Band, Washington, D.C., 1992–2002, yearly.U.S. Navy Band, Washington, D.C., 1984.University of Miami, 1983.Florida State University, 1982.Florida State University, 1981.Townsend State University, 1979.Townsend State University, 1975.

Invited Ensemble Performances, Georgia MusicEducators’ Convention, Savannah, GA. 2002, 2001, 20001999,1998,1986,1985, 1982, 1978Invited Ensemble Performance Southern Division Music EducatorsNational Conference, Savannah, Georgia, 2003

Former private applied trombone teachers 1956–1967

Performance and creative activities as trombonist/conductor

As a founding member of the UGA Brass Quintet (1967), many of Jameson's performances were with that group. The highlights of the UGA Brass Quintet's international performances have been their 1987-month-long concert tour of the Pacific Rim, 1990 tour of Finland, and their 1998 Concert tour to Narbonne France. Listed below are other significant performances and clinics.

International performances

Additional performance activities

Honors received for academic/music achievement

References

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Notes and References

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