Euphonium.com

Well it was a fun birthday on March 31st!! Been a busy year so far. On April Fool's Day, April 1, I got to drive to Greensboro, NC for a recital and master class with the students at the Univ of North Carolina - Greensboro. Dr. Dennis Askew teaches there and he is a fellow Univ of Georgia grad and studied with David Randolph as well.

We had a fun recital with a great pianist Inara that is one faculty. We played for a convocation of many undergrad music majors so we did a few transcriptions and then talked about the importance of new music and performed movements from the new Brusick Concerto for Euphonium and also from Roland Szentpali's Pearls 2.

We had a long 2 hour master class that featured 7 tuba and euphonium students. Dennis has a great situation at UNCG and the MASSIVE UNCG TUBABAND was great fun to hear 25 tubas and euphoniums. We had some wonderful discussions about interpretation and hope I presented some challenging concepts!!

From GreensBORO, I traveled to GreenVILLE where Eastern Carolina Univ and the studio of Tom McCaslin are located. It was another great visit with some very eager students. The worked and learned much I hope and it was truly great to hear the various students and meet many new hard working students. BTW, Tom's dog Franklin is so friendly and provided great entertainment for sure!!

In the end, it was AWESOME to visit with Dennis, Tom, and the students at both schools and I look forward to hearing them in the future again!!

I am off to Peru this week for a low brass festival...it is going to be great fun!!