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I'm sure there are many schools which would accept you. Perhaps you are setting the bar too high for yourself. Get in. Establish that you are ready to be serious. Then transfer later, if you wish.

How about Tutgers or West Chester?

Or even better than Tutgers.... Rutgers

Rowan University in south Jersey seems to be hungry for tuba players, they have a good faculty list, including some players connected with the Philadelphia Orchestra. Definitely worth a look if you want to stay in the area.

Give Kent State University a look. Craig Knox is there now as Professor of Tuba. They've got a great music school, and it's probably a two to three hour drive from Johnstown/Indiana.

Kent State University's Hugh Glauser School of Music

My friend goes to Penn State and says the music program there is excellent and Velvet Brown is an amazing teacher!

There is nothing wrong with doing the Community College thing. I couldn't afford to go to a 4-year school. My grades were good enough. I got a good part-time job, lived at home, and saved like the dickens. After 3 years I had taken all the general classes I could and saved up a bundle. Then I transfered to a 4 year school and finished my degree in 2 more years. Then I went on and got my Ph.D.

I see no reason whatsover why a person would not consider a Community College. So what if it is only a Junior College. An education is an education. I'm proud of my time at Delta Community College. It was a LOT cheaper too! The Big Universities better watch out or their enrollment rates are going to drop. With tuition rates growing by leaps and bounds, I bet a lot more people will choose to follow educations paths similar to mine.

CTubaB24 wrote:Scott Mendoker(anyone out there stud(y)(ied) with him?

Scott Mendoker is an excellent teacher, and I would highly recommend meeting him... send me an email if you need his number or anything.

I think the University of Miami is still looking for some tuba players.

You might check in there.


Charlie O.

Tyrone Breuninger teaches undergraduate tuba at Rowan University, with Paul Krzywicki the graduate teacher. Here are Tyrone's credentials (taken from Temple's website):

TYRONE BREUNINGER
B.S.Ed., West Chester University; M.M. (Performance), Temple University; studied with Henry C. Smith III, Robert Harper, and James Thurmon; retired Associate Principal Trombone, The Philadelphia Orchestra.

Indiana University of Pennsylvania is actually a great place to study tuba, and a decent school of music, especially for music education. Dr. Bird is a prominent name as an educator, and the school also boasts Dr. Jack Stamp as their Director of Bands.

What happened with the school in Oklahoma? The one with open admission? That sounded like a great idea: you get an opportunity to set your academic affairs straight, and the school is willing to provide you with a full scholarship. Barring this, though, you really should go to a community college before going back to a big university (in fact, I would contend if your academic past is still haunting you, this will be the only way to set your affairs straight...it's EXACTLY what I had to do...).

Good luck. It is never too late to go back to school, but you have to do it right. Besides, if you're serious about it (and I believe you are), then it's worth taking a semester or two at a community college to convince a larger university that you are ready for their academic standards and curricula.

I am so glad I did what I needed to do before heading to Temple. By attending a community college and taking all academic classes, I proved to Temple (and more importantly myself), that I could handle whatever was thrown at me. Two years later I'm still here and I've got a 3.84 GPA.

You can do it Chris!

Allen V. Carter, Tubist
Temple University
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