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Haim Avitsur
Instructor - Trombone

Room 229, Swope Music Building
Phone: 610-436-2578
havitsur@wcupa.edu

Trombonist Haim Avitsur has premiered over 60 new pieces encompassing a broad range of styles from solo trombone to chamber music and orchestra. Mr. Avitsur is the Trombone Professor at West Chester University School of Music (PA) and at the Aaron Copland School of Music, Queens College, NY. From 2004-2007 Haim Avitsur was on the faculty of the University of Virginia as well as the Principal Trombonist of the Charlottesville Symphony Orchestra. In 2005 he founded the Summer Trombone Workshop, which has a US residency at Temple University, PA. In the summers of 2007 and 2008, Summer Trombone Workshop had a second residency in Taiwan. There will be a European residency in the 2009-2010 season. Winter STW had its first residency in 2009 at Rowan University in New Jersey. Winter STW 2010 will take place at West Chester University, PA.

In the ‘09-‘10 and ‘10-‘11 seasons, Haim Avitsur will premiere a trombone/shofar concerto composed by Meira Warshauer with orchestras including the Dayton Philharmonic, the USC Symphony Orchestra, the Brevard Philharmonic, the Wilmington Symphony Orchestra and the Western Piedmont Symphony Orchestra. Other upcoming engagements include a solo with the University of Central Florida Symphony and Wind Ensemble.

Haim Avitsur was the only trombonist named a 2005 and 2007 Emerging Artist by Symphony Magazine. His book, “The Avitsur Method”, is now available through Design for Lightning Publishing. Haim Avitsur’s recent solo CD recording, Sonatas for Trombone and Piano by David Loeb, is available on the Vienna Modern Masters Label. Mr. Avitsur is a clinician for the Edwards Instrument Company.

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