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| Brian Bowman |
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Characterized by a virtuosic technique and a warm, rich, velvet tone, Brian Bowman’s playing has thrilled audiences for more than a quarter of a century. His superb musicianship and dedication to fine brass playing have made him one of the foremost euphonium soloists in the world today. His history of euphonium “firsts” is impressive:
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• First euphonium recital in New York’s Carnegie Recital Hall, 1976
• First euphoniumist to serve as president of the Tubists Universal Brotherhood Association (T.U.B.A)
• First euphonium concert tour of Japan
• First Guest Euphonium Artist at the Falcone International Euphonium Competition
• First euphonium master class at the Paris Conservatory Superior of Music, France
• Master teacher at the first Deutsche Tubaforum workshop to include the euphonium, tenor horn and baritone, Hammelburg, Germany, 1991
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Dr. Brian L. Bowman enjoys a distinguished career as a soloist, clinician, recording artist, educator and administrator. Dr. Bowman has held the principal euphonium position, in addition to being a featured soloist, in each of the bands he has been associated with: The University of Michigan Symphony Band, The United States Navy Band, The United States Bicentennial Band, The United States Air Force Band and The River City Brass Band in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania.
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He is in demand as a guest soloist with high school, university, municipal and professional ensembles. He has performed as a soloist in all 50 states, Canada, Mexico, The Virgin Islands, Norway, Finland, Germany, Belgium, Holland, Hungary, Great Britain, France, Italy, Switzerland, Australia, Japan, Tonga Taiwan, Thailand and the People’s Republic of China. He has appeared as tenor tubist with the National Symphony, the Pittsburgh Symphony Orchestra, the Colorado Symphony, the San Francisco Symphony, Oklahoma City Philharmonic, the Dallas Symphony Orchestra and the Orchestra Symphonica of Xlapa, Mexico. He has performed concertos with the Lexington Kentucky Symphony, the Sapporo Japan, Symphony Orchestra the North Carolina Symphony and the Madison Wisconsin Symphony Orchestra.
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In addition to his live performances, Dr. Bowman can be heard on over 35 service band recordings and his six solo albums. He has appeared as featured soloist on Iowa Public Television with the Karl King Fort Dodge Municipal band and performed with the New Sousa Band in the Wolftrap PBS television special.
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Perhaps it is his dedication to outstanding musical performance that makes him such an inspiring clinician and educator. Currently, Professor of Music (Euphonium) in the College of Music at The University of North Texas, Dr. Bowman has also served on the music faculty of eight other universities. His students occupy prominent positions in professional organizations world wide. He is the author of Practical Hints for Playing the Euphonium/Baritone Horn, and he frequently publishes articles in professional journals. His edition of the Arban Complete Method is the only complete bass clef edition of this famous brass method. His work as a clinician and soloist at such conferences as the Mid-West International Band & Orchestra Clinic, The British Association of Symphonic Bands & Wind Ensembles and many national and international brass symposia have won him international recognition. In 1989 he was awarded the British Magazines “Euphonium Player of the Year”, and in 1995 was given the Lifetime Achievement Award from the Tubists Universal Brotherhood Association. He is the only living euphoniumist to be included in the book Twentieth-Century Brass Soloists by Michael Meckna.
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As an authority in the field of euphonium performance, Brian Bowman has been asked to serve as adjudicator of many national and international euphonium competitions over the past thirty years. He has been a member of competition juries for international professional music competitions in the United States, France and Japan. He was the president of the TubaMania euphonium solo competition in Australia in December 1999. In 1994, an annual competition in Sapporo, Hokkaido, Japan, was named the Brian L. Bowman Euphonium Solo Competition in his honor.
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Brian Bowman is a member of the Symphonia Ensemble, a Tuba/Euphonium ensemble of professional players and teachers, which has performed throughout the United States and in Europe and recorded three compact discs with that group. He is the euphonium member of the Summit Brass Ensemble, composed of the leading soloists, chamber musicians and orchestral players in the country. He is a regular artist faculty member of the Rafael Méndez Brass Institute. Each summer he has been the euphonium artist faculty member at the International Tuba-Euphonium Summer Workshop at the University of Oklahoma.
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Brian Bowman has contributed significantly to the field of euphonium instrument design and was instrumental in the development and success of the Willson euphonium, produced by the Willson Musical Instrument Company in Flums, Switzerland. He has also been a frequent consultant for other musical instrument companies and has designed a special line of Brian Bowman euphonium mouthpieces distributed by DEG Music Products.
Dr. Bowman has contributed significantly to the body of literature available for euphonium performers today. Not only have composers written new works at Bowman’s specific request, but also many compositions have resulted merely from the composer being acquainted with Bowman and having heard his performance capabilities. Of the seven new euphonium works commissioned by the Tubists Universal Brotherhood Association since its inception in 1974, Bowman has premiered four. A major thrust of Bowman’s career has been working to generate quality new compositions for his beloved instrument.
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Many of Dr. Bowman’s accomplishments and contributions have been documented in a doctoral dissertation, “The Life and Career Contributions of Brian L. Bowman through 1991," written by Sharon Elise Huff at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, 1994.
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Dr. Bowman believes that music is a most effective art form when used to communicate. To hear him or study with him is to know he is a powerful communicator and a master of that art form. Dr. Bowman's current and future projects include: performing solo/clinic/teaching tours throughout the world; creating CD recordings of all levels of literature for euphonium; commissioning and inspiring composers to write for the euphonium; and working to create performance, teaching and research opportunities for future generations of euphoniumists.
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| Matthew K. Brown |
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| Matthew K. Brown, a native of Reading, Pennsylvania, began his musical studies on the classical guitar at the age of seven and started playing the tuba at the age of fifteen. At the age of seventeen he became the grand-prize winner of the Pennsylvania Sinfonia Concerto Competition, and made his concerto debut with the Pennsylvania Sinfonia later that same year to rave reviews: “Brown was exciting…..a tour de force!” (Allentown Morning Call); “The best performance of the {Vaughn Williams} tuba concerto I recall hearing!” (Bethlehem Globe Times). |
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| While a tuba student at Boston University, he studied with Sam Pilafian of the Empire Brass Quintet, and began his professional chamber music career as tubist and founding member of the award-winning Paramount Brass Quintet. Mr. Brown went on to study at the Peabody Conservatory of Music at Johns Hopkins University with David Fedderly, principal tubist of the Baltimore Symphony. From 1991 through 1993, Mr. Brown was a member of the Washington Brass Quintet, based in Washington, D.C. |
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| A founding member of the Avatar Brass Quintet, he has performed hundreds of concerts throughout the United States, including weekly internationally televised performances from the Coral Ridge Presbyterian Church in Fort Lauderdale, Florida. Mr. Brown is an active arranger, having arranged and transcribed over one hundred pieces for various brass ensembles, many of which are published by his own publishing company - Hawkeye Music Publications. |
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| Mr. Brown has held the principal tuba position with the Palm Beach Opera Orchestra, and has also performed with the Florida Philharmonic Orchestra, the New World Symphony, the Miami City Ballet, Ballet Florida, the Greater Lansing Symphony Orchestra, the Ann Arbor Symphony, Alea III, and Ensemble 21. |
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| From 1994 through 2000, he served as a member of the Artist Faculty at the prestigious Harid Conservatory of Music (now the Lynn University Conservatory) in Boca Raton, FL, where he taught applied tuba, coached chamber music, and conducted the brass ensemble. He has also served on the faculty at the Blue Lake Fine Arts Camp in Twin Lake, Michigan, Michigan State University, and Florida Atlantic University where he was a Schmidt Distinguished Teaching Fellow. |
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| Currently, Mr. Brown resides in Reading, Pennsylvania with his wife and two daughters. In addition to performing and conducting, he is well known as an avid collector and dealer of antique phonographs, and researcher/lecturer/impersonator of John Philip Sousa. He currently serves on the faculty at Millersville University. |
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Matthew K. Brown is a Yamaha Performing Artist and Clinician
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| Adam Frey |
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One of the elite young brass soloists in the world, Adam Frey travels the globe invigorating the international music scene with his virtuoso talent, sensitive lyricism, and connection with audiences. Whether Adam’s performing with orchestras, wind bands, brass bands, or in solo recitals, audiences love his charismatic personality and accessible musical interpretations, and critics rave over his technical prowess and tenacious promotion of the euphonium.
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| A native of Atlanta, Georgia, Adam received his musical training at the University of Georgia and the Royal Northern College of Music in Manchester, England. As a major young ambassador of the euphonium, Adam has more than 60 works that have been composed or specifically arranged for him. |
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| Adam has played with ensembles the world over, including the world famous Boston Pops, Cheju Symphony Orchestra in South Korea, and the Vaasa Symphony Orchestra in Finland along with symphonies in Seattle, Oregon, Atlanta, Greensboro, and Charleston in the United States. He also performs regularly with wind bands and brass bands that have included Soli Brass in Holland, Point of Ayr in Wales, the National Youth Brass Band of Switzerland and wind bands from Singapore, Germany, Hong Kong, and the United States to name but a few. |
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| As a champion for the euphonium, Adam has accomplished many firsts for the euphonium with especially noteworthy success in his early years in Young Artist competitions. Realizing success in these, he afforded audiences and conductors the chance to hear the euphonium elevated to the orchestral concert stage and also gain respect for the instrument’s repertoire and abilities. As a standout figure in the realm of euphonium players, Adam advocates a strong musical education for young players and has published articles internationally and served as an assistant editor of the Euphonium Source Book, a text dedicated to all things euphonium. He serves as president of The Euphonium Foundation Inc., a non-profit established to promote the euphonium, and as Artistic Director of The International Euphonium Institute, a one of a kind experience for young players from around the world to work up close and personal with leaders in the field of euphonium. Adam also serves as Adjunct Professor of Euphonium at Georgia State University and as an Artist Affiliate with Emory University. |
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| Adam has an impressive collection of recordings that range from his first solo recording, Listen to THIS!!,, with piano to Collected Dreams, an enchanting collection of traditional Scottish, Irish, and classical melodies with synthesizer to his pioneering recordings released with the New Zealand Symphony Orchestra entitled Majestic Journey and Taking Flight. He also has partnered with former trombonist with the Empire Brass, Scott Hartmann, along with the Metropolitan Wind Symphony and Lawrence Isaacson in Little Buckaroos, which exhibits two virtuoso soloists and some lovely duets, including an entertaining rendition of the infamous Duelin’ Banjos (really duelin’ euphonium and trombone). In 2007, Adam released Beyond the Horizon featuring new works for the euphonium, many specifically composed for him. He also appears on ten other recordings as a collaborative artist and has been a featured soloist in broadcasts on BBC Radio 2, Swiss Cable Radio, and on numerous NPR stations in the US. |
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Adam Frey is a Yamaha Performing Artist and Clinician
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| Don Harry |
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Buffalo Philharmonic Orchestra Tubaist Don Harry was born in Anadarko, Oklahoma, and is a member of the Delaware Nation. Principal teachers include William Rose, principal tuba of the Houston Symphony, William Bell, Indiana University, Harvey Phillips, Indiana University and Joseph Novotny, New York Philharmonic
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Mr. Harry became the tubaist of the Oklahoma City Symphony in 1972 and joined the Buffalo Philharmonic as principal tuba a year later during the tenure of Michael Tilson Thomas. While yet in Oklahoma, he was the tuba instructor at Langston University, the first of several important teaching posts he has held since that time. From 1978 through 1988, he served as the tuba instructor at the Juilliard School of Music in New York City. In 1983 and 1984, he also served as the principal tuba and teacher at the Eastern Music Festival in North Carolina. From 1995 through 1997, Mr. Harry was the tuba instructor at Baldwin-Wallace Conservatory, in 1990 he was became a member of the Eastman Brass then in 1996 he became an Associate Professor of Tuba at the Eastman School of Music in Rochester.
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In addition to appearing as a soloist with the Buffalo Philharmonic in performances of the Vaughan Williams Concerto for Tuba and Orchestra, Don has also been a featured soloist with the Colorado Philharmonic, the U.S. Military Academy Band at West Point, the U.S. Army Band in Washington, D.C. and Sousa Live at Wolf Trap. He has also been featured in performances and master classes at various universities including UCLA, Mansfield University, SUNY Fredonia and at UB with the Creative Associates at the Center for the Creative and Performing Arts.
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Don is a member of the Delaware Nation and an amateur historian of Lenape / Delaware history he is also President of Neto Hatinakwe Onkwehowe, Inc. (see netobuffalo.org) , a Native American Arts group in Western New York. He is also a serious photographer, with a strong preference for images of nature.
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| INNOVATA BRASS |
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| INNOVATA was born in late 1998 and has been heard throughout the Northeastern United States and Canada, in such major cities as New York, Philadelphia, Montreal and it’s hometown - Boston. Some performance highlights have been the Bar Harbor Music Festival - hailed by critics as “The proving grounds for young artists.”, the Arcady Music Festival, Bay Chamber Concerts, Music from Greensboro (VT), aboard the historic U.S.S. Constitution by invitation of the United States Navy, at PNC Park by invitation of the Pittsburgh Pirates baseball team, on various public radio stations and at the famous Liederkranz Club in New York City. |
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INNOVATA is made up of top talent from around the country. The musicians have performed around the world and have appeared with such renown orchestras as the Boston Symphony, Boston Pops, Chicago Symphony, Key West Symphony, and with other world class organizations ranging from chamber groups through Dixieland, jazz and pop music.
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| Unique to INNOVATA is music by composer Sanae Kanda. The style that Dr. Kanda writes in is very much like a movie composer. Her pieces each have a distinctive character to them that distinguishes one from the next. Dr. Kanda’s music is immensely popular with INNOVATA audiences and have become a staple of the INNOVATA repertoire. |
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| INNOVATA places special emphasis on education. All of the musicians have their own private music studios, and some hold college level teaching positions. Wherever they travel, INNOVATA always tries to make themselves available to young audiences. Individually, as well as collectively, the members of INNOVATA perform about 100 educational shows per year. |
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| COSMOPOLITAN QUARTET |
| tuba quartet |
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| cosmopolitan [koz-muh-pol-i-tn] adjective - Free from local, provincial, or national ideas, prejudices, or attachments; at home all over the world. Belonging to all the world; not limited to just one part of the world. |
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| This quartet truly lives up to it's name! The members are euphonium players Roland Froescher (Berne - Switzerland) and Adam Frey (Georgia - United States) and tuba players Matthew K. Brown (Pennsylvania - United States) and Michael S. Milnarik (Massachusetts - United States). These four players come from varied backgrounds performing with brass bands, brass ensembles, symphony orchestras, concert bands, brass quintets, Dixieland bands, jazz ensembles, and as soloists. The level of experience each member brings to the quartet formed an immediate cohesive sound. |
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| All of the members of the Cosmopolitan Quartet maintain college/conservatory level teaching studios, as well as their own private studios. |
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