Competitions: 1981 & 1983 Jugend musiziert solo national competition each with highest award 1982 & 1983 concerto competition winner Interlochen 1984 International competition Markneukirchen highest award 1984 International Brass Conference Bloomington, Indiana: highest award tuba solo competition
Orchestra musician: 1984-85 German Air Force music corps 1 Neubiberg 1984-86 Radio Symphony Orchestra Saarbrücken 1987-93 Principal Tubist Orchestra of BeethovenhalleBonn since 1993 Principal Tubist Bamberg Symphony Orchestra – Bayerische Staatsphilharmonie.
He is well known for winning many competition awards and performing concert tours in Europe and USA. 1987 he founded the German Melton Tuba Quartet and is intermittent member of German Brass.
Arnold Maurice Jacobs was an American tubist who spent most of his career with the Chicago Symphony Orchestra. He held that position from 1944 until his retirement in 1988.
John Marcellus was a trombone musician and teacher. He was Professor of Trombone at the Eastman School of Music of the University of Rochester and Chair of the Woodwind, Brass, and Percussion Department. In addition to his trombone teaching responsibilities at Eastman, Marcellus was the conductor of the Eastman Trombone Choir, Eastman Bionic Bones, and the trombonist with the Eastman Brass. Marcellus joined the faculty of the Eastman School in 1978, and was named the Kilbourn Professor from 1982 to 1983. He succeeded the trombonist and teacher Emory Remington, who served as Professor of Trombone at Eastman close to 50 years. Marcellus retired in 2014 after 36 years at Eastman.
Edward Gregson is an English composer of instrumental and choral music, particularly for brass and wind bands and ensembles, as well as music for the theatre, film, and television. He was also principal of the Royal Northern College of Music.
John Fletcher was an English tubist and French Horn player.
Velvet Brown is an American tubist and euphonium player. She is currently a Distinguished Professor of Music at Pennsylvania State University, prior to which she taught at Bowling Green State University and Ball State University.
David Fedderly is an American orchestral tuba player and teacher.
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Jan Koetsier was a Dutch composer and conductor.
Frigyes Hidas was a Hungarian composer.
James Gourlay is a Scottish conductor and tubist.
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Gary Alan Kulesha is a Canadian composer, pianist, conductor, and educator. Since 1995, he has been Composer Advisor to the Toronto Symphony Orchestra. He has been Composer-in-Residence with the Kitchener-Waterloo Symphony (1988–1992) and the Canadian Opera Company (1993–1995). He was awarded the National Arts Centre Orchestra Composer Award in 2002.
Gregory Fritze is a former chair of the Composition Department at the Berklee College of Music. Fritze has also been a performer with Boston Ballet, Rhode Island Philharmonic, and other orchestras.
James Martin Self is an American tubist and composer from Los Angeles. Self has performed extensively in Los Angeles and internationally as a soloist, chamber musician, orchestral tubist, and, most notably, as a studio musician in the Los Angeles movie studios having appeared on over 1500 soundtracks. He is also known for his association with the Pasadena Symphony, the Pacific Symphony, the Los Angeles Opera and the Hollywood Bowl Orchestra.
Kerry Turner is an American composer and horn player. Turner is a recognized name in the horn and brass industry. Turner’s major ensembles with whom he performs include the American Horn Quartet, the Virtuoso Horn Duo, and the Luxembourg Philharmonic Orchestra. Turner has performed internationally as a soloist and clinician. Turner also sings tenor in a semi-professional octet.
David McLemore is an American tubist and Instructor of tuba and euphonium at Central Washington University in Ellensburg, Washington.
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Constance Weldon was an American tuba player, who was the first woman to play the instrument in a major American orchestra.
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