Guest Artist Recital: Tim Buzbee, Tuba
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Illinois State University ISU ReD: Research and eData School of Music Programs Music Spring 2-15-2018 Guest Artist Recital: Tim Buzbee, Tuba Tim Buzbee Tuba Illinois State University Jessica Buzbee Trombone Illinois State University Lu Witzig Piano Illinois State University Follow this and additional works at: https://ir.library.illinoisstate.edu/somp Part of the Music Performance Commons Recommended Citation Buzbee, Tim Tuba; Buzbee, Jessica Trombone; and Witzig, Lu Piano, "Guest Artist Recital: Tim Buzbee, Tuba" (2018). School of Music Programs. 3631. https://ir.library.illinoisstate.edu/somp/3631 This Concert Program is brought to you for free and open access by the Music at ISU ReD: Research and eData. It has been accepted for inclusion in School of Music Programs by an authorized administrator of ISU ReD: Research and eData. For more information, please contact [email protected]. ILLINOIS STATE UNIVERSITY Illinois State University SCHOOL OF MUSIC College of Fine Arts UPCOMING EVENTS School of Music FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 16 ISU Symphonic Winds 8:00 pm CPA Guest Artist Recital Series SUNDAY, FEBRUARY 18 Choral Showcase 3:00 pm CPA Twin Cicy Honor Band Festival Concert 7:00pm CPA Tim Buzbee, Tuba Illinois State Universicy \Vind Symphony Concert with Jessica Buzbee, Trombone 7:00pm Lu Witzig, Piano CPA MONDAY, FEBRUARY 19 Charles W. Bolen Faculcy Recital: Adriana Ransom, cello 7:30 pm Kemp TUESDAY, FEBRUARY 20 Charles W. Bolen Faculty Recital: Faculcy String Quartet 7:30 pm Kemp WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 21 Jazz Ensemble I and II 8:00 pm CPA TUESDAY, FEBRUARY 27 Performance Convocation Hour 11:00 am CPA Kemp Recital Hall February 15, 2018 Thursday Evening 7:30p.m. This is the ninety-seventh program of the 2017-2018 season. Program Western Australia Symphony Orchestra, Dallas W111d Symphony, Malaysia Philharmonic and the Helsingborg Symphony among others. As a soloist, he has performed concerts and masterclasses around the world including Please silence all electronic devices for the duration of the concert. Thank you. the most prestigious universities and conservatories. Currently, Tim has three solo CDs the Albany Record label including ''Raw Emotions," consisting of 4 concertos from 0 orth America ,vith the Iceland Symphony Orchestra. Buzbee also recorded a cd Hammer It! Rick Peperkamp entitled Eruptions, consisting of standard excerpts for low-brass section for the Albany Record label. He has been soloist ,vith the Melbourne Symphony, Iceland Symphony, JABBERWOCKY David Gillingham Singapore Symphony, Acapulco Symphony, Marshall Symphony, and the ''Pershing Own" Army Band in Washington D.C. Buzbee recently was asked to be a featured (born 1947) artist at the Texas Music Association Conference in San Antonio, Texas. Buzbee was also recently featured on the front cover of the International Tuba Euphonium Sang till Lotta Jan Sandstrom Association Journal and has been featured in several other magazines in the past. Tim is (born 1954) on the faculty at Australia National Academy of Music and The University of Melbourne. Tubifer's Saga Tim Buzbee Buzbee knows he would probably be flipping burgers if not for the help of teachers Ed Jones, Gene Pokorny, and Matt Good. Tim enjoys spending any free time ,vith his ,vife Jessica Buzbee, trombone Jessica, and their five kids, and the two family dogs which think they are children Jacob Hilton, Tim Schachtschneider, tlfba number 6 and 7!!! Three Furies James Grant Edwards clinician Jessica Buzbee has enjoyed an exciting career as a trombonist and forming artist. She was the ,vinner of the first prize in the international solo Decidedly jocular (born 1950 mbone competitions, Concours Branimir Slokar 2000 in S,vitzerland and Lieksa Very clean-gently inebriated Combone Competition 1998 in Finland, where she amazed the judges ,vith her Relentless beautiful tone and crystal clear articulations. In 2002,Jessica received the Swedish honor Kristallen den fina (Crystal Prize). \Vhile attending the University of Gothenburg in Sweden,Jessica studied ,vith the trombonists Ingemar Roos and Christian Lindberg. After graduation,Jessica went on to France to study ,vith Iviichael Bequet and later to Chicago, Illinois, to study with Arnold Jacobs,Jay Friedman and Edward Kleinhammer. During her stay in Chicago, she was a About the Artist . .. member of the Chicago Civic Orchestra, where she worked ,vith such noted conductors as Pierre Boulez and Daniel Barenboim. Jessica is a member of the trombone sextet Trombone Unit 2000, a group directed by Tim Buzbee "is a fine musician who can make his tuba variously Christian Lindberg.Jessica has performed ,vith all the major orchestras of Sweden and sing like a violin and bark like an angered dog, and touch all those many others in Europe, including the Munich Philharmonic. bases in between. His sense of phrasing is as astonishing as his sense of his instrument's tone coloring" raved Fanfare Magazine 10ssica's playing has been recorded on many occasions, including a duet with Christian about Ti.m's debut solo cd, BUZZED. In 2011, Tim joined th"' 'ldberg on his CD Christian Lindberg, and Friends Play and a duet with Tim Buzbee on Melbourne Symphony Orchestra as the Principal Tuba. Besides thV Q solo CD Buwd. Melbourne Symphony Tim has held the same position with many orchestras including Iceland Symphony, Malmo Symphony, Galve Symphony, Singapore Symphony, Civic Orchestra of Chicago, and the Acapulco Philharmonic. Jessica is currently teaching trombone at the Australian National Academy of Music Tim has won jobs in 8 different countries! Buzbee has been invited to perform as guest and the Melbourne Conservatorium. tubist with many other orchestras including the Chicago Symphony, Danish Radio Orchestra, Swedish Radio Orchestra, Sydney Symphony, Hong Kong Philharmonic, .