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He is a member of the board of directors of the International Tuba Euphonium Association, [5] where he served as treasurer from 2008 to 2010, [6] [7] and is the proprietor of the Baltimore Brass Company, a large brass sales and repair shop in Catonsville, just west of Baltimore.
Arnold Maurice Jacobs (June 11, 1915 – October 7, 1998) 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.
Principal Tuba of the Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra [68] Bennie Pete: 1976– American Jazz Founder of the Hot 8 Brass Band [69] Velvet Brown: c. 1980s – American Classical Soloist and chamber musician. Professor of tuba and euphonium at Pennsylvania State University [70] [71] Bill Muter: 1984– American Avant-garde tubist
Gene Pokorny (born May 15, 1953) is an American tubist.He has played with the Chicago Symphony Orchestra since his appointment by Georg Solti in 1988. [1] He has also played with the Israel Philharmonic, the Utah Symphony, the Saint Louis Symphony Orchestra, and the Los Angeles Philharmonic. [1]
Unable to make the rent at times, Holton was known to pawn instruments at a shop on Clark Street between 1898 and 1900. [7] By 1907, a skilled horn maker had been hired, and the production of Holton instruments required the construction of a factory on the West Side of Chicago. [7] It would be home to Frank Holton & Company for only a decade.
Akins studied the tuba with Ronald Bishop of the Cleveland Orchestra, Arnold Jacobs of the Chicago Symphony Orchestra, Robert Ryker of the Montreal Symphony, Fredrick Schaufele Jr. at Lakewood High School, and Robert LeBlanc of Ohio State University. He received his Bachelor of Music in 1978 and Master of Music in 1982 from Ohio State University.
Howard Lewis Johnson (August 7, 1941 – January 11, 2021) was an American jazz musician, known mainly for his work on tuba and baritone saxophone, although he also played the bass clarinet, trumpet, and other reed instruments. [1] [2] He is known to have expanded the tuba’s known capacities in jazz. [3]
In 1997 he was commissioned by the Chicago Symphony Orchestra to write a tuba concerto. [1] His work is also featured on the Mark Hetzler 2015 recording Blues, Ballads and Beyond . An accomplished performer, Stevens was the original sousaphone soloist in the Broadway production Barnum and is a member of Symphonia , the world's first ...