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| At the completion of the 2008 Northeast Tuba Euphonium Workshop we proudly changed our name to the Cosmopolitan Tuba Euphonium Workshop or CTEW (pronounced see-tew) for short. Our name change was necessary to accommodate the exposure that the workshop has been getting on a national and international level over the past three years. Although the Cosmopolitan Tuba Quartet had it's debut concert at the 2007 workshop, and returned again in 2008 and 2009, the name change has no relation to the ensemble. The definition of the word cosmopolitan is: |
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| Free from local, provincial, or national ideas, prejudices, or attachments; at home all over the world. Belonging to all the world; not limited to just one part of the world. |
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| This is exactly what both the workshop and the quartet are. So the name is fitting in both cases. |
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| Most people that know me, and anyone who has attended the Workshop, knows that I have a profound passion for teaching and performing. There is nothing equivalent to the feeling I get when I see a person I am working with improve. At the workshop individuals improve on their instrument, as musicians, and as people. I wanted the camp to be non-competitive and I wanted each person that attended to get out of it what THEY individually needed. This is what we do. We work with each person at their current level of playing and experience, and by the end of the workshop - everyone has improved. Everyone is at the camp for their own benefit, and no one else's. Sometimes it's easy to forget about this! Individuals attend the camp for themselves - not for us, their families, their friends, their colleagues, or anyone else - THEMSELVES. They leave better than when they got there. THIS is the goal of the workshop. |
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| I can go on and on about my experience with this workshop and of course I will keep telling everyone how great it is - because everyone that has been involved with the workshop (participants, faculty, staff, and guest aritists) have made it so. However, I feel that nothing speaks louder than the comments that participants have made via our feedback forms telling us what THEY thought of THEIR experience. This is important to me. It is THEIR experience that is the most important. It is THE reason the workshop exists...to help people. Each year I want to make the experience not only as good as the last, but better. I pay close attention to what our participants say and it gives me great confidence in knowing that we are doing the right thing. What an incredible feeling! |
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| THANK YOU to ALL of the participants of the 2006, 2007, 2008 and 2009 workshops. Each year I am MORE eager to get started, and each year adds to my list of career highlights! |
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| If there is ANY doubt whether or not this workshop is for you - please read the testimonials. If after reading them you are still not sure - this workshop is not for you. |
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| Eagerly awaiting the 2010 workshop... |
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| Most Sincerely, |
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| Michael S. Milnarik, Director |
| Cosmopolitan Tuba Euphonium Workshop |
| www.c-tew.com |
| info@c-tew.com |
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