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Shortly after moving to San Diego in 2017, she met Atkinson - the veteran jazz program coordinator for the Athenaeum Music & Arts Library - at an Athenaeum at TSRI Auditorium concert by frequent Douglas collaborator Joe Lovano. Richards’ first New York performance was at the 2008 edition and it helped raise her Big Apple profile significantly. The New York festival was founded in 2002 by trumpeter Dave Douglas. “The festival is not genre-specific to jazz or contemporary music - it’s all about highlighting progressive musicians trying to do something new, with the unifying concept being they all play trumpet,” said Canadian-born trumpeter and UC San Diego music professor Stephanie Richards, who has been a driving curatorial force behind the Festival of New Trumpet Music in New York since 2012. Confirmed performers range from San Diego’s Gilbert Castellanos and Curtis Taylor to former Pat Metheny Group member Cuong Vu, who is flying here from Vietnam.
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It is designed to trumpet the trumpet by showcasing both well-known and under-represented artists, especially those taking the instrument in vital new directions. The Festival of New Trumpet Music West will include concerts in large and small venues, along with film screenings and a jam session. “The trumpet festival is very similar to what the symphony is doing, where they announce a theme and invite people to participate, except our theme is new trumpet music,” said Daniel Atkinson, the director of Public Programs for UC San Diego’s Extended Studies & Public Programs. And two are part of the San Diego Symphony’s month-long “Hearing the Future” festival. Welcome, please, the Festival of New Trumpet Music West, which will take place at eight San Diego area venues between Jan. After growing increasingly diverse and larger over the past 16 years in New York, the Festival of New Trumpet Music is ready to expand across the country for the first time.