I want to make ITEA as relevant as possible to all kinds of members worldwide. We want to create member services that make your life with the tuba or euphonium more fun, easy, educational, and interesting – and, if you are a professional, more profitable.
For this, I need your help.
Would you like to serve on one of our new committees? Purpose: To develop ideas on how to make ITEA better for you. Please see the description under each committee below. Only committees with vacancies are listed.
You will join a very dedicated group of people on our newly assembled board of directors, including amateurs/enthusiasts, freelancers, jazz players, educators, orchestra musicians, and business leaders.
See below for how to apply.
-Øystein Baadsvik, ITEA President
What is an ITEA committee?
A group of 3-5 people that meet regularly to discuss and suggest solutions to the committee’s purpose. Your job is quarterly to write a report with actionable advice and pass it on to the Executive Director. The Executive Committee will then evaluate and prioritize, and have our professional staff realize as many of your ideas as our resources allow.
How much work is it?
Each committee will work independently and have 3-4 online meetings per year.
What qualifications do I need?
The most important is that you are positive, driven, and like to share and discuss ideas with others. I am looking for members from all constituencies. Beginners, students, amateurs and professionals.
Look for a committee that interests you. English will be the main language in the committees.
I am looking for members of all nationalities, genders, and creeds.
The Committees that need members:
Endowment
Purpose: To quarterly review our endowment and to recommend endowment policies.
Chair: Beth Chouinard Mitchell
Members: Jim Self
Development
Purpose: To review strategy, plan, and assist with yearly annual fund and endowment fundraising.
Chair: Rod Matthews
Investment
Purpose: To review ITEA’s investment mix. How do we manage our financial assets in the best possible way?
Chair: Vacant
Jazz/Freelancers
Purpose:
- Make ITEA relevant to freelancers and jazz musicians.
- Make freelancers and jazz musicians join ITEA.
- Make ITEA a useful resource for jazz musicians.
- Advice on how to promote these resources.
Chair: János Masura
Amateur/Enthusiast
Purpose:
To identify and communicate how ITEA can be relevant for amateur/enthusiast players worldwide. This includes all aspects of ITEA activities, such as:
- Journal content
- Website content
- ITEC program
- Day-to-day activities of ITEA
Chair: David Paulson
College Students
Students Wanted!
Purpose:
- Make ITEA relevant to college students.
- Make more students members.
- Help students create local Chapters.
- Help with guest artists.
- Help with travel grants, instrument.
Chair: Jesse Orth
Professional Educators
Purpose:
- How can ITEA be relevant to professional educators on all levels, in all countries?
- Make more students members.
- Coordinate and consolidate educational ideas.
- Investigate exchange and support possibilities between institutions and countries.
- Create online Q&A resource. For students and educators.
- Suggest other useful services for professional educators.
Chair: Aaron Tindall
Orchestral Development
Purpose:
- Make ITEA relevant to orchestra players worldwide.
- What can ITEA do to help orchestra players worldwide?
Chair: Vacant
Audit Committee
Purpose:
- Oversee the financial operations of the Organization.
- Monitor compliance by the Board of Directors with applicable law and best practices for nonprofit organizations.
- Making recommendations to the Board regarding the removal of Directors from the Board.
- Monitor compliance by directors with the Organization’s conflict of interest policy.
- Review and evaluate the work performance of the organization’s hired staff.
Chair: Vacant
ITEA Awards
Purpose:
- Coordinate the ITEA awards.
- Consolidate the award announcement text and rules, and update deadlines.
- Make sure the award is properly announced.
- Collect and vet submissions.
- Oversee the voting process.
The professional ITEA staff will be at the committee’s disposal for practical action such as website updates, mass emails, and similar.
Chair: Warren Deck
Social Outreach
Purpose: Help talented but underprivileged tuba/euphonium players worldwide with learning possibilities and instruments. Ideas: Free online learning, Scholarships, Travel support, Borrow a tuba program.
Chair: Benjamin Ordaz
Merchandise
Purpose: Create an online store with merchandise for our existing website. We use WordPress. Find a suitable selection of items (Hats, pens, scarves, shirts etc) Come up with a good design. Suggest logistical setup. Drop shipping or other solutions.
Chair: Vacant
DEI (Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion)
Purpose: To develop strategies for expanding the DEI reach of ITEA.
Chair: Dan Burdick
