Send a text Introducing The Embouchure Project Podcast! Join host Frankie Lo Surdo and producer Gabriel Radford, as they interview world-leading experts in the fields relating to embouchure health, dysfunction and rehabilitation! This podcast was created with the intent to become a resource for performers, educators, and medical professionals as we seek to understand the brass player's embouchure. Enjoy! Visit us at www.theembouchureproject.org and sign up for our mailing list! Also, join us...
Send a text Today we welcome legendary teacher and horn player, Gail WIlliams. She began her career in the Chicago Symphony Orchestra in 1978 and stayed there until 1998, when she became professor of horn at Northwestern University. She continues to play and teach around the world. She is known for her kindness, wisdom and honesty. She will modestly tell you that she teaches the same thing over and over, but those who have been lucky enough to study with her know that you will never get to th...
Send a text Dr. Bronwen Ackermann is back for more with The Embouchure Project Podcast! This time she gets into more of the nitty gritty of how medical professionals who are not in the field of musician injury and rehabilitation can join the fun with us musicians! ---------------------------------- Bronwen is Associate Professor of Biomedical Science at the University of Sydney and the Sydney Medical School. She is a specialist in musicians' physiotherapy, musculoskeletal anatomy and musici...
Send a text The Embouchure Project Co-Founder and Podcast Producer, Gabriel Radford is back! This time, he goes into his own experience with embouchure dysfunction, and his journey coming back from that. ---------------------------------------------------------------- Gabriel Radford is Third Horn of the Toronto Symphony, a position he has held since 2002. He taught for many years at the University of Toronto and is Horn instructor at the Glenn Gould School at the Royal Conserva...
Send a text Today, we welcome Glen Estrin, an in-demand horn player who spent years working, recording and touring as Frank Sinatra’s go-to horn player. in May 1998, he lost his ability to play and was subsequently diagnosed with Embouchure Dystonia by Dr. Stephen Frucht. After an overwhelming response to an article they wrote together about the condition in the newsletter for AFM Local 802 - New York - they decided to form a new support group called Musicians with Dystonia, n...