Euphonium Faculty
Brian L. Bowman
BRIAN L. BOWMAN enjoys a distinguished career as a soloist, clinician, recording artist, educator and administrator. A Regents Professor of Music Emeritus in the College of Music at The University of North Texas, Professor Bowman organized and conducted the Brass Band of the University of North Texas.
Dr. Bowman has held the principal euphonium position, in addition to being a featured soloist, in each of the bands he has been associated with: THE UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN SYMPHONY BAND, THE UNITED STATES NAVY BAND, THE UNITED STATES BICENTENNIAL BAND, THE UNITED STATES AIR FORCE BAND and THE RIVER CITY BRASS BAND. He has performed as a soloist in all 50 states, Canada, Mexico, The Virgin Islands, Norway, Finland, Germany, Belgium, Holland, Great Britain, France, Italy, Columbia, Brazil, Switzerland, Australia, Japan, Taiwan, Tonga, Thailand and the People’s Republic of China.
His students occupy prominent positions in professional organizations worldwide including many in Washington, DC and other military bands. He is the author of PRACTICAL HINTS FOR PLAYING THE EUPHONIUM/BARITONE HORN and his edition of the ARBAN COMPLETE METHOD is the only complete bass clef edition of this famous brass method. In 1989 he was awarded the British Magazines “EUPHONIUM PLAYER OF THE YEAR”, and in 1995 was given the LIFETIME ACHIEVEMENT AWARD from the Tubists Universal Brotherhood Association and at the 2010 ITEC, the Clifford Bevan Award for Meritorious Work in Low Brass Scholarship. He is the only living euphoniumist to be included in the book TWENTIETH-CENTURY BRASS SOLOISTS by Michael Meckna. In 2016 The American Bandmaster Association bestowed upon him the EDWIN FRANKO GOLDMAN MEMORIAL given for those who have rendered conspicuous service in the interest of Bands and Band Music in America. Currently residing in Arlington, Virginia, Dr. Bowman teaches each year at the Rafael Mendez Brass Institute, The International Tuba Euphonium Institute, and continues to travel worldwide giving workshops and guest solo performances. He conducts the Brass Band of Northern Virginia.
Gail Robertson
GAIL ROBERTSON has a distinguished reputation as a euphonium artist, teacher, and clinician. She has garnered worldwide attention for leadership, her work as composer/arranger, and as a musical-talent. Robertson serves as Associate Professor of Tuba-Euphonium at the University of Central Arkansas, Visiting Professor of Music (Euphonium) at Indiana University Jacobs School of Music, and Boston University as Euphonium Artist in Residence. She also is on the faculty of the America Band College in Ashland, Oregon. Dr. Robertson is Past President of the International Tuba Euphonium Association and the International Women’s Brass Conference. She is a member of the world-famous Brass Band of Battle Creek, the New Sousa Band, the Blossom Festival Band, and has performed with the Boston Symphony Orchestra, the Detroit Symphony Orchestra, Arkansas Symphony Orchestra, and the Cincinnati Symphony Orchestra. Robertson is a founding member of SymbiosisDuo with Dr. Stacy Baker. The duo tours and performs nationally and internationally and just released their third CD, Dreams, Dances, and Destinations. Gail performed for ten years with the Tubafours at Walt Disney World. Robertson’s euphonium of choice is a Willson 2950TA and bronze Warburton/Robertson mouthpiece.
Richard Harris
RICHARD HARRIS Whether its performing on OSCAR winning soundtracks such as “Joker” the GRAMMY award winning album “Twelve Little Spells” with Esperanza Spalding, or recording solo and chamber music CD’s, Richard Harris has crafted an eclectic musical career. As a soloist, chamber musician, orchestral performer, educator and advocate, his performances have taken him all across North & South America, Europe and Asia.
Richard is currently on faculty at the University of Denver, is the former Assistant Principal Trombone of the Cincinnati Symphony Orchestra, and formerly an Associate member of the Metropolitan Opera Orchestra. He is a regular guest with many of the US’s top symphony orchestras, including the Boston Symphony, Seattle Symphony, Colorado Symphony, Buffalo Philharmonic and is a former member of the Radio City Music Hall Orchestra in New York City, where he has also performed with many other Broadway productions.
Richard recorded with pop-star Sting on his first studio album in a decade and has performed and toured alongside a diverse range of musicians, such as, Rza, Puff Daddy, Snoop Dogg, Vince Mendoza, Natalie Cole, Seth McFarlane, Boyz II Men, Megan Hilty, Roseanne Cash, Bryce Dessner, Chris Botti and classical music stars Luciano Pavarotti and Andrea Bocelli.
Mr. Harris is a member of ‘Decoda’, a New York City based chamber music collective which is the first ever Affiliate Ensemble of Carnegie Hall and he is also a member of Summit Brass. As a chamber musician he has been a guest artist at Chamber Music North West and has performed with The Canadian Brass, The Empire Brass, The Metropolitan Opera Brass Ensemble, The Lincoln Center Trombone Ensemble, the Boston based string ensemble, A Far Cry and he appeared on onstage at the Park Armoury in New York with the Knights Chamber Orchestra in “The Head & The Load” directed by William Kentridge.
A native of Worcestershire, England, Richard was a scholarship student at the Royal Academy of Music in London. He completed his Masters Degree at Indiana University before spending three seasons with the New World Symphony Orchestra led by Artistic Director Michael Tilson Thomas. Mr. Harris is a former fellow of Ensemble ACJW, a program of Carnegie Hall & The Juilliard School and Richard has worked for Carnegie Hall as a teaching artist.