Help us Congratulate Hannah Robinson and her family for winning the free Stomvi USA Lightweight Trumpet at our open house.  Thanks everyone for coming see Calvin and KO!

Pete Madsen, Trombone Professor and chair of the brass department
at the University of Nebraska at Omaha, with Radegundis Feitosa Nuñez,
a Julliard alumnus from Brazil doing a residence at the University
of Nebraska at Omaha in '08.

With great sadness, Thompson Music would like to offer our condolences to the family and friends of Radegundis Feitosa Nuñez.  His tragic passing is a great loss to the world's musical community and we will miss him! 

Jay Wise of the Omaha Symphony, highly impressed with a Shires trombone.

K.O. Skinsnes, Jim Manley, and Mike Thompson.
K.O., founder of The Brass Spa and designer and maker of the V-Raptor Trumpets
and Flex Mouthpieces, and Jim, a St. Louis freelancer shown here
with his VRII trumpet, were here to present these new instruments in
masterclasses and an open house here at the store.

Calvin Price, principal trumpet of the San Diego Symphony
and a busy Los Angeles studio player heard
on many major motion picture and television soundtracks,
gives a masterclass here at our shop. He is a Sonare Artist.

Mike Thompson playing a Getzen C cornet.

Mike Thompson with Thomas Jöstlein. Thomas, formerly of the Omaha
Symphony, and the New York Philharmonic.
He has recently accepted a position with the St. Louis Symphony.

Thompson Music trumpet specialist Rebecca Stromquist works
with Pucho Fernandez, a salsa trumpeter from Puerto Rico
who flew in to try out some of the instruments in our store.
His band, Mariachis del Sur, is based in Juana Diaz, Puerto Rico.

University of Nebraska at Lincoln trombonist Paul Niedbalski compares
trombone mouthpieces.