notable tubist conductors

tubafatness · Post by **tubafatness** » Sat Oct 01, 2005 3:33 pm

Does anyone here no of any notable conductors who were or are tuba players? I've noticed that a lot orchestral conductors today are pianist and violinists, for the most part. The only conductor I've seen that I thought was a tubist was the conductor of the Jack Daniel's Silver Cornet Band.
Thanks, Aaron H.

Steve Marcus · Post by **Steve Marcus** » Sat Oct 01, 2005 4:42 pm

tubafatness wrote:Does anyone here no of any notable conductors who were or are tuba players?

Depending upon what you consider "notable," Roger Bobo immediately comes to mind.

There are tubists who, due to their academic positions, serve as conductors, such as John Stevens, Winston Morris, Sam Pilafian, etc.

There are also tubists who, although they occasionally conduct, are better known as composers, e.g. James Barnes, Philip Wilby, Steven Winteregg, etc.

The only conductor I've seen that I thought was a tubist was the conductor of the Jack Daniel's Silver Cornet Band.

If you're going to include Brass Band conductors, you have to list Steve Sykes, James Gourlay, and TubeNet's own Tony Z!

windshieldbug · Post by **windshieldbug** » Sat Oct 01, 2005 5:01 pm

AndyCat · Post by **AndyCat** » Sat Oct 01, 2005 5:31 pm

Bramwell Tovey, ex tubist, composer of many fine works, but especially for brass band (this years British Open piece "A Night To Sing") and also conductor of the Vancouver Symphony.

Bramwell Tovey, the outstanding British conductor, works internationally with a prestigious list of orchestras - including the New York Philharmonic, Toronto Symphony, Montreal Symphony, Los Angeles Philharmonic and the City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra - in addition to his music directorships with the Vancouver Symphony and the Luxembourg Philharmonic Orchestra.

Kevin Miller · Post by **Kevin Miller** » Sat Oct 01, 2005 5:37 pm

Skoken (or not) with true brevity Windshieldbug.

Kevin Miller · Post by **Kevin Miller** » Sat Oct 01, 2005 5:39 pm

I meant to say sPoken, not skoken...obviously not with brevity.

JB · Post by JB » Sat Oct 01, 2005 6:13 pm

bloke wrote:I have no idea if that music director is still there, but I believe the conductor at Winnipeg is (was?) a baritone player...

bloke "who was a finalist for that job years and years ago, but (ignorantly) chose to play the Bydlo solo on F tuba "

I think it might have been Bramwell Tovey; (and see post above). I recall hearing recently that he was conducting NY Phil (at least I think that is what I heard...).

[Out of curiosity, Bloke: what year would you have been at that audition? Somewhere around 88--90'ish?]

Mark · Post by **Mark** » Sat Oct 01, 2005 6:17 pm

bloke wrote:bloke "who was a finalist for that job years and years ago, but (ignorantly) chose to play the Bydlo solo on F tuba "

Okay, I'll bite. What should you have played Bydlo on?

Chuck(G) · Post by **Chuck(G)** » Sat Oct 01, 2005 6:31 pm

Steve Marcus wrote:If you're going to include Brass Band conductors, you have to list Steve Sykes, James Gourlay, and TubeNet's own Tony Z!

I believe that George Hespe was another. And if you include euphoniums in the broad category of "tubas", the Childs brothers, of course.

tuneitup · Post by **tuneitup** » Sat Oct 01, 2005 6:54 pm

The orchestra director from Texas Tech was a tuba player.

JB · Post by JB » Sat Oct 01, 2005 8:17 pm

bloke wrote:
Mark wrote:Okay, I'll bite. What should you have played Bydlo on?
the friggin' Yamaha bariphone that I owned a the time, o' course!

Bloke: what year would you have been at that audition? Somewhere around 88--90'ish? Wondering if some of the folks here were there at the same one.

Dylan King · Post by **Dylan King** » Sat Oct 01, 2005 10:21 pm

Mark · Post by **Mark** » Sat Oct 01, 2005 10:55 pm

SJSUW wrote:Mr. Keating Johnson

Yes, absolutley!

JB · Post by JB » Sat Oct 01, 2005 11:25 pm

bloke wrote:(brrrrrrrrRRRR!!!!!!

Yeah! And that was during their few yearly days of "warm" weather

[I flew in a couple of days ahead; and from the 'scratchy throat' that was gowing from the instant I took off in from southwestern US 'til the time when I landed there (including the multiple connections) with the worst head cold I've ever had in my entire life, it was scripted to be nothing but a 'sport audition']

In hindsight, the best possible result was not winding up staying there

(However, met a lot of nice tuba playin' folks at the post-audition 'debriefing/beerfest' )

tuneitup · Post by **tuneitup** » Sat Oct 01, 2005 11:56 pm

Also, I read somewhere that Toscanini wanted to be a tuba player. But, I don't think he actually was one.

Scott Sutherland · Post by **Scott Sutherland** » Sun Oct 02, 2005 12:05 am

Matt Garbutt is the tubist in the San Diego Symphony and is also their pops conductor.

porkchopsisgood · Post by **porkchopsisgood** » Sun Oct 02, 2005 12:08 am

I'm going for a masters in conducting....

I'll post another to this thread in a few years....

We'll see.....hehehehe

tubajoe · Post by **tubajoe** » Sun Oct 02, 2005 6:18 pm

A couple come to mind:

Ken Singleton (Univ of North Co)
Douglas Bostock (Tokyo Kosei)

vince · Post by **vince** » Sun Oct 02, 2005 7:09 pm

Walter Hilgers (tuba player with German Brass) is also a conductor in Germany.

Vince

bttmbow · Post by **bttmbow** » Sun Oct 02, 2005 7:20 pm

Orcenith Smith was the conductor of the Chicago Youth Symphony, as well as the Orchestra conductor at Depauw University. He put me through the wringer at my audition with a bunch of excerpts I didn't know at the time. He was a great influence to me.

Chris Hall,
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