The 2026 Chosen Vale International Trumpet Seminar
June 15 – 27, 2026
As we celebrate the 20th Chosen Vale International Trumpet Seminar, this milestone season promises to be one of our most inspiring yet. Designed to elevate the artistry and careers of early-stage trumpeters, Chosen Vale offers unparalleled access to distinguished faculty, meaningful mentorship, and a vibrant community of peers. The seminar continues to serve as a launching point for the next generation of exceptional artists—fostering bold ideas, lasting relationships, and transformative musical growth.
The 2026 seminar information will be posted in September 2025.
Our campus is an integral part of the Chosen Vale experience. We will convene once again on the grounds of the Enfield Shaker Museum, whose intimate setting facilitates a unique musical and social environment that has contributed so much to the success of our participants since the seminar opened in 2006.
A Note From the Director
“The speed and accessibility of information has blurred the line between those who seek to innovate and those who simply co-opt, resulting in difficulty distinguishing original ideas from a multitude of facsimilies.
Careful observation of the past fifty years or so of musical study has identified two alarming trends — a rigid separation of performers from composers, composers from performers (and audiences from both!) and an inflexible specialization by young musicians, training to gain a professional foothold in a rapidly changing musical world.
Musical societies in the coming decades will require musicians to be increasingly flexible, original, and to have an ever broadening set of skills. We believe that rather than simply fostering a steady accumulation of inert, skill-based knowledge, each and every musician should be focusing on developing a wide-ranging and original musical voice in order to become the type of artist who will thrive in the emerging world. Music education has to not only keep pace with change, it must foster change as well.
As traditional ways and places to make music evolve, musicians will be required to be increasingly original and entrepreneurial. Total musical immersion at the Center for Advanced Musical Studies will illuminate paths that develop individual musical invention in parallel with musical discipline.”
~Edward Carroll, Director
The Center for Advanced Musical Studies is a place for talented musicians who share the mutual goals of exploring their own personal voice and expanding their artistic capacities.