Korie Brewer
Performer, Educator & Collaborator
Stay Personal, Ready to Reinvent, and Always Up to Improvise.
KORIE BREWER
Mission Statement:
Always push to learn new things. grow your brand establish routines, and most importantly, set your stage. There is an audience waiting for you!
Korie Brewer is the Applied Instructor of Low Brass at Albion College. She is a classically and jazz trained trombonist with a diverse background in instrumental and choral music. In addition to her teaching roster at Albion, she currently holds a private studio of 11 students across Michigan as well as serving as a low brass instructor at various middle and high schools: Okemos School District, Macdonald Middle School in Lansing, Marshall School District, and the Detroit Public School District. As a freelance musician, she has served as a member of the Gathering Jazz Orchestra based out of Detroit, is a member of the Chromatic Brass Collective, and currently serves as a traveling artist for the Brass Animals. While she was in Austin, TX for a gap year before moving forward with her master’s degree at Michigan State, she served as a performing artist for the Austin Civic Orchestra, Austin Brass Band, Austin Symphonic Band, and subbed for U.T. Austin’s Hispanic Caribbean Ensemble, Lab Orchestra, and their second Jazz Ensemble. During her most recent performance career while in school, she participated in Michigan State’s Wind Symphony, Symphony Orchestra, Honors Brass Quintet, and Musique 21.
About
KORIE
Throughout the journey from her roots of Cape Girardeau, MO, to Murray KY, Austin, TX, and now Lansing, MI, Korie Brewer is a constant force in the classical and jazz scene on trombone. She thrives to clear all genres and sub genres of learning and music to ensure she is able to go above and beyond for herself and future students. The former Murray State University undergrad and current graduate student of Michigan State University seeks to continue a professional career in classical and jazz performance and education. Entering her fifteenth year of playing, she is still on a mission to perfect her craft and make room for herself on bandstands everywhere.
"The real innovators did their innovating by just being themselves."
COUNT BASIE
Performances
Resources
TIPS
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Listen to as many genres as possible
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Mark your music!
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Drink water, stretch, and maintain healthy habits
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Create your best foundation of air support
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All sounds are good sounds
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Work in 3s: Warm up, pick 2 etudes Lyrical and Technical Etudes/Methods Books, then work on Solo and Ensemble repertoire
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Leave room for growth in all aspects
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Socialize and make connections
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Your highest notes are your lowest notes!
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There will never be another you, so make it count!
Practice Routine
1. Begin the day with clearing your head, breathing, and stretching- repeat this process throughout the day
2. Go through various mouthpiece buzzing exercises
3. Transition to a series of Lip Slurs, widening the Dynamic range, Articulations, and flow studies
4. Each week, pick a new etude from both of your selections of technical and lyrical method books
5. After an efficient warm up and etude studies, be sure to retain all of the good habits you just created and continue to move towards working through various solo and ensemble work
6. End with something fun and be proud of your progress regardless of the end result!
BOOKS
Marco Bordogni and Joannes Rochut
H.W. Tyrell
Complete Method for Trombone and Euphonium
Jean Baptiste Arban
Reginald Fink
Bill Watrous
Mark Nightingale
Sammy Nestico- for You to play
Jamey Aebersold
David Vining
The Real Book V.3 Bass Clef Instruments
Compiled by Berklee College of Music Students
Vladislav Blazhevich
