Adam Frey has begun a new position as graduate euphonium professor at Georgia State University through a Dual Appointment with the University of North Georgia. His duties at Georgia State will include teaching graduate euphonium students, while he also serves as Associate Professor of Music and Director of Instrumental Studies at UNG. Adam is internationally recognized as a euphonium performer and educator, hosts the International Euphonium Tuba (IET) Festival at Emory University each summer, and maintains www.euphonium.com, which contains a multitude of low brass music. Adam is a Yamaha Perf ..read more

Dr. Patrick Young has recently been appointed as the new Assistant Professor of Low Brass and Director of Bands at Idaho State University in Pocatello, Idaho. He will direct the ISU Wind Ensemble and Symphonic Band, and teach low brass lessons, conducting courses, and music education courses. He will also perform in the faculty brass quintet. Patrick holds degrees from the University of Colorado-Boulder, the University of Georgia, and Young Harris College. His primary tuba teachers include Michael Dunn, David Zerkel, Dr. David McLemore, and Dr. Simon Wildman. His conducting influences are Dr ..read more

Michael Fleming has recently won a tuba position with the United States Naval Academy Band. He began performing with the band in August 2022. His duties include playing in the concert band and chamber ensembles. Michael began playing the tuba at age 13 in his hometown of Curwensville, Pennsylvania. He attended Carnegie Mellon University where he studied with Craig Knox and earned his Bachelor’s degree in Music Performance and Education. He then attended Yale University where he studied with Carol Jantsch. He has performed with the Pittsburgh Symphony Orchestra, Buffalo Philharmonic Orchestra ..read more

David Saltzman is the new Visiting Associate Professor of Tuba at Oberlin Conservatory. The appointment began in July 2022. His duties include teaching weekly undergraduate tuba lessons, coaching small ensembles, and leading a repertoire class. David is also the Associate Teaching Professor of Tuba & Euphonium at Bowling Green State University in Bowling Green, Ohio, and he will be continuing in this role while teaching simultaneously at Oberlin. David is the Principal Tubist with the Toledo Symphony Orchestra and the Glimmerglass Opera Festival. He lives at home with his amazing wife, th ..read more

Ross Knight is the new Professor of Tuba at the Haute École de Musique de Genève. He will begin serving in this role in September 2022. His duties will be to teach and mentor the tuba students to guide them in their musical careers, whether that be as an orchestral musician, soloist, chamber music player, teacher, etc. In addition to this new position, Ross is the Solo Tuba player of the Orchestre de la Suisse Romande in Geneva. Before joining the OSR, he was an Academist of the prestigious Karajan Academy of the Berlin Philharmonic and has performed with several of the world’s top orchestras ..read more

Fabien Wallerand is the new tuba teacher at the Conservatoire National Supérieur de Musique et de Danse de Paris. He will begin serving in this role in September 2022. His duties will include teaching tuba students pursuing Bachelor’s and Master’s degrees at the conservatory. Unanimously awarded first prize for tuba at the Conservatoire National Supérieur de Musique de Lyon (the class of Melvin Culbertson), Fabien Wallerand won prizes at the international competitions of Guebwiller (France) and Markneukirchen (Germany). He has played in the Orchestre de Paris, the Orchestre National de France ..read more

Michael Waddell has recently accepted the position of Assistant Professor of Music at Longwood University. He will begin serving in this role in Fall 2022. His duties include conducting the Longwood University Wind Symphony and teaching applied lessons on euphonium, tuba, and trombone. Prior to joining Longwood’s faculty, Michael served as Director of Bands at Hiram College since 2018, where he directed the Wind Ensemble, Pep Band, Jazz Ensemble, taught low brass lessons, and many other courses, such as music entrepreneurship. Active as a performer, he can be heard on several recordings, incl ..read more

Mason Soria will be the new tubist with the Los Angeles Philharmonic, and he will begin performing with the orchestra in September 2022. Mason is originally from Burbank, CA but grew up in Frisco, TX where he began his tuba studies at the age of 10. He holds a Bachelor's degree in Music Performance from the University of North Texas and a Master’s degree in Music Performance from the University of Miami. His main teachers include Dr. Aaron Tindall, Donald Little, Matthew Good, and Warren Deck. Before winning the LA Phil tuba audition, Mason held the principal tuba position with the Baton Roug ..read more

Alec Mawrence has recently won a position as tubist with the West Point Brass Quintet at the United States Military Academy. He will begin serving in this role in November 2022. The West Point Brass Quintet is the ceremonial brass quintet for the West Point Band. The quintet provides support for West Point ceremonies as well as other outreach events throughout the greater New York City area. Alec received a master’s degree from the University of Michigan in 2022 and a bachelor’s degree from Northwestern University in 2020. He spent three summers at the Aspen Music Festival, where he studied w ..read more

Ricardo Carvalhoso is the new Tuba Instructor at the University of Music FRANZ LISZT Weimar in Germany. He began teaching in this role in October 2021. Ricardo is a Portuguese tuba player who is the Solo-Tuba with the Munich Philharmonic Orchestra. He has also been Solo-Tuba of the Nice Philharmonic Orchestra in France and the Orchestra of the Zürich Opera House - Philharmonia Zürich. In addition he has performed regularly as a featured artist in several Music Festivals and Masterclasses in Europe, South and North America, and Asia. Ricardo is a Yamaha performing artist ..read more