Dr. David Mathie joined the faculty of the Department of Music at Boise State University in 1992. He has a Bachelor of Music in Music Education from Ithaca College, a Master of Music in Trombone Performance from The Julliard School of Music, and a Doctor of Musical Arts in Trombone Performance and Music Education from the University of Georgia. His doctoral dissertation explored the twentieth-century performance practices and pedagogy of the alto trombone. As a performer, Dr. Mathie was the principal trombonist in the Juilliard Symphony, and played with the Metropolitan Opera orchestra, the Stamford Symphony, Hudson Valley Philharmonic, Connecticut Symphony, and the Hartford Symphony. He is now the second trombonist in the Boise Philharmonic and trombonist with the Boise State University Faculty Brass Quintet.
Dr. Mathie has published in the International Trombone Association Journal, the International Horn Society Journal, the Kansas Music Review, the Idaho Music Notes, and the Instrumentalist, and has presented research papers and performed at many International Trombone Association conferences. He has served on the Research Committee of the International Trombone Association and review board for the On-Line Trombone Journal. Dr. Mathie started editing musical arrangements for trombone after finding that existing works had been edited beyond the composer’s intent, with excessive embellishments such as staccatos, accents and slurring. Studying the original compositions, he tries to recover some of the purity of intent and execution in the music. His arrangements have been performed by collegiate groups and professional ensembles, including Juilliard’s trombone choir and the Los Angeles Philharmonic brass section, as well as groups in Berlin and Vienna.