Hello! I am principal tuba with New Jersey Symphony Orchestra and Albany Symphony Orchestra. I also teach tuba at Bard College Conservatory, tuba and euphonium at Montclair State University, and low brass Kean University. Thanks for watching my videos, enjoy!!
I notice in some of your videos when playing in the extremely low register, you use entirely your upper lip, leaving your lower out of the mouthpiece. I have found that what works best for me is to only use my lower lip. Are there any advantages to your method over the one I use, or is it just preference?
Really solid technique and great musicality! I wanted to hear and enjoy other versions of this masterpiece, I only have the great Roger Bobo’s great version. Both you and Emi on the piano, what a tremendous performance.
One of the most elegant solo brass works performed most elegantly on tuba! It really reminds that the tuba's inventor, VF Červený, was the leading ('French') horn designer and maker of the early 19th Century, who conceived a contrabass cousin to the horn. Dennis Brain is smiling from above. Bravo!! Encore!!
Idk if it’s just the thing you’re recording on , but the low register when you speed up sounds a little muddy. Other than that, you sound great and I wish I sounded that good lol
I love this tune! Back for more after a bunch of years. So well played. I like that it's a tube sonata with piano accompaniment as well as a piano sonata with tuba accompaniment.
I don't get why people say this song is good, can you please explain why it sounds good to you? To my ears it sounds dissonant and consistently out of balance, and the best parts are when only one of the parts is playing. I'm sure its just something to do with tastes, but I've been recommended this piece multiple times and I feel crazy.
Not a tuba player but a bass trombonist so I can appreciate the pedals. No hunting or breaking up of a note you nailed it every time. And how you played that falling gliss like Tim at the end ? Unbelievable. Curious what size # of mouthpiece ?
