TubaChristmas is a time for tuba and euphonium players to gather together and play their instruments for the public. "It's fun," Chris Sherman, who conducts and organizes the annual event ...

How did you become a tuba player? Bolton: Well, I started band in the fourth grade on trumpet, and I was a terrible trumpet player. Out of 12 kids, I was the 12th chair for three years.

Nowadays, they have kids coming in saying, ‘I want to be the tuba player.’” Much of that is thanks to Phillips’ father, renowned tuba player and teacher Harvey Phillips, who launched the ...

Sean Turner, a band director at Whiteaker Middle School in Keizer, has participated as a musician in the annual assembly of tuba players since he was about ten years old. Now as a band ...

As a tuba player throughout high school ... Robotics Competition team at the School at Marygrove in Detroit. “The kids call me ‘Coach P,’ but I’m more like a cheerleader because the ...

Tuba players are like unicorns (which literally ... or someone even younger; high-school-age kids have been accepted to Curtis. They take high-school classes locally or online while studying ...

Tuba enthusiasts celebrated the 15th annual TubaChristmas on an unseasonably warm afternoon on Sunday at Valparaiso University. Reid Venstrom, 9, of Valparaiso, came in shorts. “I just like the ...