Tuba and Euphonium students at the Eastman School of Music study with Dr. Justin Benavidez, joining a musical community rich with cultural, social, and intellectual diversity. Students receive an intensive professional education in their musical discipline and are prepared with an exceptional foundation in music and an expansive education in the liberal arts.
All students participate in a weekly studio class, fundamentals class, and applied lessons. These elements create a rigorous program of study that is devoted to the pursuit of the highest level of musical artistry in solo, wind ensemble, orchestral, and chamber music. In addition to the vast large ensemble and chamber ensemble opportunities at the Eastman School, tuba and euphonium students also perform in the Eastman Tuba Mirum, a tuba and euphonium ensemble that presents one concert every semester.
Graduate students are involved as teaching assistants and their responsibilities often include organizing studio classes, conducting Tuba Mirum, teaching methods courses, and teaching non-major lessons.
The tuba and euphonium studio is forged by a combination of enthusiasm and esprit-de-corps and boasts an incredible legacy of alumni. Graduates from the studio are distinguished in nearly every aspect of the musical community throughout the world, from the concert stage to the public school classroom, from the recording studio to the collegiate classroom and administrative positions. Alumni of the studio have been awarded positions with the Los Angeles Philharmonic, the St. Louis Symphony Orchestra, the Detroit Symphony Orchestra, the Cleveland Orchestra, the United States Marine Band “President’s Own”, Indiana University, and the Canadian Brass.
