Tuba Faculty
Timothy Northcut
TIMOTHY J. NORTHCUT is Professor of Music and Instructor of Tuba and Euphonium at the University of Cincinnati College-Conservatory of Music (CCM), where he also serves as Music Director/Conductor of the CCM Brass Choir. A three-time recipient of CCM’s Ernest N. Glover Outstanding Teacher Award (1997, 2003, 2010), he was further recognized with the University of Cincinnati’s Mrs. A. B. (Dolly) Cohen Award for Excellence in University Teaching in 2003 and named one of Ohio’s Top 100 Educators in Ohio Magazine.
From 1998-2001, he was Executive Director of the Rafael Mendez Brass Institute, an international seminar for brass musicians in collaboration with Summit Brass, America’s premiere large brass ensemble. In 2008, he served as Artistic Director and Host of the 2008 International Tuba Euphonium Conference.
Currently, Tim performs as Principal Tuba with the Dayton Philharmonic Orchestra and is a member of both the Carillon Brass Quintet and Summit Brass. His career also includes service as a member of The United States Army Field Band (Washington, DC), along with numerous solo and chamber music engagements.
Tim holds a Bachelor of Science in Music Education from Tennessee Technological University, a Master of Music in Performance from The Catholic University of America and has completed coursework toward a Doctor of Musical Arts degree at Arizona State University. Tim attributes his success to the mentorship of his teachers: James Garrett, R. Winston Morris, Harvey Phillips, David Fedderly, Warren Deck and Daniel Perantoni.
Aaron Tindall
With his orchestral playing praised as “a rock-solid foundation” and his solo playing described as being “remarkable for both its solid power and its delicacy,” Aaron Tindall is the the principal tubist of the Naples Philharmonic, the professor of tuba and euphonium at the Frost School of Music – University of Miami, and the tuba professor at The Colburn School in Los Angeles, California. In the summers, he teaches and performs at the Festival Napa Valley in Napa, California and at the Eastern Festival of Music in Greensboro, North Carolina, where he also serves as principal tuba with the EFM Festival Orchestra under the direction of Gerard Schwarz.
Aaron has previously served as the principal tubist of the Sarasota Orchestra, the acting principal tubist of the Iceland Symphony Orchestra, held the principal tuba position with the Aspen Festival Orchestra where he was an orchestral fellow and has collaborated as guest tubist with orchestras such as the Los Angeles Philharmonic, Chicago Symphony Orchestra Brass, Teatro alla Scala Opera and Ballet Orchestra, Milan, Italy, Melbourne Symphony Orchestra, Australia, Baltimore Symphony Orchestra, Cincinnati Symphony Orchestra, Colorado Symphony Orchestra, The Florida Orchestra, National Symphony Orchestra-Kennedy Center, New Jersey Symphony Orchestra, New World Symphony, Rochester Philharmonic Orchestra and the Utah Symphony.
He is a frequent soloist, guest artist/clinician and orchestral tubist throughout the United States, Europe and Asia. He has been featured at a majority of the International Tuba and Euphonium conferences since 2006, performed in England with the National Champion Grimethorpe Colliery Brass Band and his solo playing has been heard on NPR’s Performance Today radio show.
Aaron has been a prizewinner of many competitions (solo and chamber) across the world. He has also been a two-time finalist in the prestigious Concert Artist Guild Competition, and released four highly acclaimed solo recordings — Yellowbird (solo tuba and jazz piano trio), Transformations (winner of the International Tuba Euphonium Association’s Roger Bobo Excellence in Recording award and winner of two 2017 Global Music Awards), This is My House… (awarded two 2015 Global Music Awards) and Songs of Ascent.
Many of his students have obtained prestigious principal positions with the top professional orchestras in the U.S. and Canada, and also in the premier military bands of Washington, D.C., West Point, and the U.S. Coast Guard. They are also frequent prizewinners at various national and international solo and chamber music competitions.
Aaron is an International Yamaha Performing Artist and a Denis Wick – London artist and design specialist, having designed their complete Ultra Range AT signature series tuba mouthpieces.
Kathleen Brantigan
KATHLEEN AYLSWORTH BRANTIGAN is Artistic Director and, along with her husband, Chuck, founder of The Denver Brass. She formerly served as Adjunct Assistant Professor of Music at the University of Denver Lamont School of Music. As a professional tubist, Kathy performed more than 80 concerts annually with The Denver Brass and the recital quintet, Denver Brass5, as well as with the Summit Brass at the annual Rafael Méndez Brass Institute. Kathy has been the Executive Producer of more than 20 recordings by The Denver Brass, heard on the Delos, Centaur, Klavier and Denver Brass labels. She is actively involved with the International Tuba-Euphonium Association, serving as its treasurer from 1999 through 2008, and as Host of the 2006 International Tuba-Euphonium Conference at the University of Denver.
Warren Deck
WARREN DECK, former Principal Tubist of the New York Philharmonic, held the positions of Principal Tubist with the Houston Symphony, and tuba professor at Rice University and the University of Denver. He made his solo debut with the New York Philharmonic by performing the world premiere of Roger Kellaway’s Songs of Ascent for Tuba and Orchestra. He has made four recordings with the Canadian Brass for Sony Classical and Phillips labels, and Tuba, a recording of leading tuba and euphonium players from Germany and the U.S. on EMI Angel Records. Deck is a faculty member at the Aspen Music Festival and the San Francisco Conservatory of Music.