Melbourne Symphony Orchestra Principal Tuba Opening

[Steve Marcus]

I have been off of TubeNet for a number of days. But I can hardly believe that there was no mention here of what was posted on Facebook nearly a day ago:

Congratulations to Tim Buzbee, who won the audition for Principal Tuba of the Melbourne Symphony!

Unless there's a local hot shot, most likely a student of Tim's, who is good enough to take Tim's place in his current position, someone else will need to learn how to speak Icelandic...

[josh_kaprun]

I guess this means that the Icelandic Symphony principal trombone spot will also be opening up.

[UDELBR]

Congratulations to Tim Buzbee, who won the audition for Principal Tuba of the Melbourne Symphony!

Interesting, only in that they'd planned on holding a 9 month trial before awarding the job.

[cambrook]

I'm not sure what you're referring to UncleBeer?

[UDELBR]

One of the advertised requirements was an extended trial: up to 9 months. Guess that got waived...

[cambrook]

No it wasn't waived. Tim won the job subject to the successful completion of a trial period - if he passes that then he will fully have the job.

Maybe this is called different things in different countries; tenure, probation period etc.
Different orchestras have different requirements, sometimes this is as long as 2 years.

Cheers

Cam

[UDELBR]

Maybe this is called different things in different countries; tenure, probation period etc.

To misquote Shaw, Australia and America are apparently "two countries separated by a common language".

[Steve Marcus]

The "tenure/probation" subject is a good point.

For example, it had initially been announced (with some fanfare, given the age and gender factors) that Carol Jantsch was appointed Principal Tuba of the Philadelphia Orchestra (in 2006?). But no PR mentioned that she did, in fact, have a year of scrutiny before she was officially granted tenure. Of course, she came through that with flying colors.

[taipeituba]

Congratulations to Tim Buzbee, who won the audition for Principal Tuba of the Melbourne Symphony!

I agree!! The MSO is a great orchestra and any tubist who wins the position deserves recognition.

I've been out of the loop for a good while, hence, a fairly basic question. Was Fabian Russel the last to hold the principle tuba position? Or has someone been and gone since Fabian left?

Whilst I'm asking Qs about MSO tubists...can anyone tell me what Fabian Russel and Peter Sykes are up to these days? I really enjoyed hearing both of them perform.

[Dave2ba]

Congrats Tim!!!

Dave Saltzman

[hugechunkofmetal]

Congratulations to Tim Buzbee, who won the audition for Principal Tuba of the Melbourne Symphony!

I agree!! The MSO is a great orchestra and any tubist who wins the position deserves recognition.

I've been out of the loop for a good while, hence, a fairly basic question. Was Fabian Russel the last to hold the principle tuba position? Or has someone been and gone since Fabian left?

Whilst I'm asking Qs about MSO tubists...can anyone tell me what Fabian Russel and Peter Sykes are up to these days? I really enjoyed hearing both of them perform.

Fabian Russel is now conducting the Melbourne Youth Orchestra, and Peter Sykes is the conductor for the Hawthorn Brass Band I believe.

[taipeituba]

Peter Sykes is the conductor for the Hawthorn Brass Band I believe.

Yes, your right....there's a blurb about him on the Hawthorn BB site.

http://www.hawthornband.org.au/md.htm

He must have been pretty well jack of the music scene to give it all alway and move to Aussie Home loans. It's good to see he's back into music.

I think he used to have a Yorkbrunner. Whatever it was it sounded great. I wonder if he's still got it?

[cambrook]

He sold it to Skip Gray a long time ago - I think he still has it