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I am wondering if anyone out there can name schools that offer a performance degree (Masters or DMA) with a [i]specialization in low brass[/i] (trombone, euphonium, and tuba).

Thanks in advance for your help!

I'm pretty sure that at Michigan State you can do this. Contact Phil Sinder over there for more details.

You might want to contact Dennis Askew at UNC-Greensboro and president of ITEA.

Given that a not entirely unknown Assistant Professor of Tuba and Euphonium at the Univ. of Alabama (Roll Tide!) is currently wrapping up his DMA ... in TROMBONE performance, I'll go way out on a limb and say that you might want to inquire about the possibilities at 'Bama.

Colorado, LSU, FSU, Miami, UGA, USC, UCLA, Ariz. St, U of Ariz, Oregon, U of Washington, UW-Milwaukee, UW-Madison, U of Mich, Mich. St, Alabama, Arkansas, Oklahoma, Ok St, Illinois, Ill. St, Indiana, Wright St, Bowling Green, Kentucky, South Carolina, UNC-G, George Mason, New England Conservatory, Boston U, Julliard, Yale, Rutgers, Manhattan School, Mannes, Curtis, Carnegie Mellon, Ball State, Southeastern Louisiana University, U of Denver, Boise St, Pitt, Duquesne, IUPUI, U of New Haven etc etc etc etc etc etc

You can get a master's at all these schools in performance on tbone, euph, or tuba. Most have DMA degrees. (off the top of my head, Arkansas, UW-Milwaukee do not)

Search around. If you know who you want to study with, start there. If you know what region of the country you want to study in, start there. Google is your friend in this case!!!

Andy Larson

LARSONTUBA wrote:You can get a master's at all these schools in performance on tbone, euph, or tuba. Most have DMA degrees.

I believe the OP is looking for schools where he can earn a degree in "low brass," i.e., 'bone, euph, AND tuba, rather than a degree in 'bone, euph, OR tuba.

I'm actually working on taht right now...my major is officially "music performanca with a concentration in brass". My interpritation-trombone's ok (and my teacher said he will let me have a semester on euph to really nail that down)

If that is the case, I mis-understood the original post.

That greatly reduces the number of schools that apply. The list I put down above are schools where you can get a MM and/or DMA though.

I completed a Masters in Music Performance on low brass at Ithaca College in 1979. It was originally a MM in Brass (trumpet, horn and trombone) but they allowed me to do it on the low brass instruments. Frank Meredith and I played euphonium, bass trombone and tuba in that masters program. Bowling Green University in Ohio may have a low brass MM too.

LARSONTUBA wrote:The list I put down above are schools where you can get a MM and/or DMA though.

No DMA in music is currently available at Oklahoma State. They have had a Masters program since 1997 (I was among the first class of Masters candidates) and they have some very fine faculty, though. It's a hidden gem for all studies relating to wind band performance and literature.

Professor Paul Compton teaches both trombone and euphonium and would most likely also instruct you in tuba if tweaked about it. I'm not sure if your diploma would actually say "MM in Performance - Low Brass" or not...is that the goal?

West Virginia University just started a degree like this a few years back.

You pick a primary horn (like tuba), on which you must be very proficient. You are required to pass a less-strict proficiency test (jury) on both euphonium and trombone as well.

bloke wrote:I seem to recall that the University of Kansas (at least it did years ago) offers the type of degree you seek.

While walking into the music building for my graduate school audition at Kansas, I carried a small Miraphone and a euphonium on which to play. At the time, I thought demonstrating some proficiency on euphonium might be a good idea for someone applying for a graduate assistantship (looking back, that may actually be the last time I touched a euphonium!).

I received some interesting looks from the local tuba majors. From that and my experiences in Lawrence, I can infer that they either don't offer such a degree or had no candidates for it in the time I was there. Still, it is a wonderful school and I imagine some sort of individual study plan could be devised to meet the needs of the OP.

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Univ. of Central Arkansas has one of the world's most well known trombone/euphonium instructors (though apparently in the goold ol' USA he's not well known but if you go to any other country, everyone knows about him) in Dr. Dennis Winter and our tuba instructor is a heck of an instructor, Christian Carichner. We have other tuba faculty that are well known as well. We don't offer DMA but we do have a master's program. Our trombone GA just graduated and is going off to North Texas if that says anything and we are getting a really good euphonium GA from what I've been hearing.