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Andy Schanz ~
Director
Andy graduated
from the University of
Oregon with a Bachelor of
Music Performance and summa cum laude honors
in 2003.Afterwards, Andy completed a year's
worth of music education coursework in 2004,
during which time he studied conducting
under the direction of Robert Ponto. In addition to his
duties regularly rehearsing
the Oregon Tuba Ensemble as
their conductor, Andy
teaches many middle and high
school low brass and
electric bass students in
the Eugene/Springfield area
and does bass transcription
work for Hal Leonard
Corporation.
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Bill Martin ~
began playing euphonium in junior
high school, and continued to play
thru high school and as a
composition music major at
University of Nevada Las Vegas and
North Texas State University. He
picked up the horn 20 years later as
a charter member of the One More
Time Marching Band in Eugene. He has
played with the Ensemble since 1998.
Bill grew up in Las Vegas Nevada.
He retired from the Eugene School
District after being it's
Architectural Drafter for over 15
years. He spends his creative time
painting, drawing and sculpting,
when he is not showing, coursing or
bragging about his dogs, which are
Egyptian
Pharaoh Hounds. He has two
grown sons, and his wife Cynthia is
director of the Oregon Research
Institute.
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Bob Ellis ~
is a retired (1993) band director from the
Springfield Public Schools. He graduated
with a Bachelors Of Music Education from
Willamette University in 1957 and started
his career in teaching at Talent ,Oregon.
Two years later, he accepted a position as
Jr High and High School Band Director on the
Island of Guam. After four years, he came
back to Oregon and attended The University
Of Oregon for further education. Bob
accepted a position as Band Director at
Hamlin Jr. High in Springfield which later
became Hamlin Middle School. In 1970, he
received his Master of Music degree from The
University of Oregon. Bob is married to
JoAnn and they have raised two children,
Sondra, who is the manager of the
Springfield Branch of First American Title
Co. and Sam, who teaches pharmacy at the
University of Colorado. Bob & Jo have two
grandchildren. After playing a couple of
times at the Tuba Christmas, bob decided to
become a member of the Oregon Tuba Ensemble.
This is his third year with the group. He
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Cathy Gray ~
played
trombone starting in 5th grade. Played
through high school and college. After
college played for a
few years with the Eugene community
orchestra. Also played a couple of years
with the Musicians Union Band.
She didn't play her horn for about 30 years,
then needed to help her grandson, when he
decided to play in band and decided that he
would like to learn to play the baritone.
She rented a baritone, he said it was fun
to play, so she bought the baritone and a
new
euphonium. Cathy and her grandson played in
the Tuba Carol Concert in 2005. In 2006
she started playing with the Springfield
Community Concert Band, then in August of
2006, she started playing euphonium with the
Oregon
Tuba Ensemble.
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Clarin Lewis |
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Dave
McKee ~
began playing the tuba in
1947 at Elmira high school. He was part of
the award winning band program under Gladys
Stone (Wright). He also received top honors
as in the state solo contests in his junior
and senior years. He has played tuba in
college, community and church orchestras
and has been a member of the ensemble of the
Oregon Tuba Association for over 25 years.
He is a real estate investor and lives in
Coburg with his wife, Doris.
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Dean
Huston ~
first played Sousaphone as a
Freshman in the
Harrisburg High School Band
in 1950, and Played through 1954. In
1954 I was picked as one of the 14
Sousaphone players in the All
Northwest Music Educators Conference
Band which met in
Bellingham Washington.
It was 28
years later that I told the
Junction City High School band
director I had played in school and he
convinced me to help with the bass parts
in his school band. There was no other
low brass at that time! He also started
a polka band to play at the Scandinavian
Festival in which I played the tuba.
This polka band is still in existence
and I have been the coordinator-director
for many years.
The next
band director in
Junction City started a Brass
Quintet and needed a Trombone
part. There being no trombone
players, He gave me a Euphonium and
I played for about 10 years with this
group.
I played
with the Eugene Community Orchestra two
times, about 20 years ago for a couple
of seasons then about the past 3 years.
Retiring last year. And, with the
Springfield Community band several years
ago.
I played
with the
Oregon Tuba Association Tuba
Carol Concert at Christmas time a few
times during those years, finally
joining the Association and Ensemble
about 15 years ago.
I started
at 2nd Euphonium, then switched to 3rd
tuba part, occasionally filling in at
2nd or 1st when needed.
I have been
President of the
Oregon Tuba Association for 2
years.
I am
greatly pleased at the progress the
Oregon Tuba Ensemble has made
under the direction of Andy Schanz.
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Dick
"Dutch" Kaufman ~
first played a tuba in a Middle School band
and the church band at his church in 1952.
It wasn’t long before he began playing in
the Los Angeles County Sheriff’s Boys Band
and the concert band at The Angeles Temple
in Los Angeles for Amy Semple McPherson. As
a young high school band and orchestra
player he also played with the Baldwin Band
at the Phil Kerr musicals and the San
Gabriel Valley Concert band. After a year
and a half of infantry assignments with the
101st. Airborne Division, Dick
auditioned for the 101st.
Airborne Division Band and was excepted in
the only all parachute qualified band in the
world. In addition to being a security
platoon for General Westmoreland, the band
traveled, parachuted and played at many
events around the world and eventually was
deployed to Viet Nam. Dick retired as a
fire captain in Los Angeles in 1992. He
worked at the Kennedy Space center and began
playing the tuba again in the Brevard
Concert Band in Brevard, Florida. He has
played Tuba 2 with the Oregon Tuba Ensemble
for 5 years now in addition to playing with
the Springfield Community Concert Band.
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George Walker ~ I began playing
various band instruments in grade
school, settling on the sousaphone
in Jr Hi and continuing at Medford
High, in concert band, musicals and
ensemble competitions. After a 40
year pause, I again took up the
tuba. and have been involved with
the Springfield Community Concert
band and the Oregon Tuba Ensemble,
playing the 3rd tuba part. I’m a
long term employee for the City of
Springfield now working in the
Environmental Services Water
Resources Section. |
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Janette Friel ~
began playing the baritone in
December of 2005. She had played flute
and piccolo since 1949 in school, community
concert, and marching bands. After hearing
her first Tuba Christmas concert in December
of 2004 in Atlanta, however, she vowed to
learn to play the baritone so she
could actually perform in aTuba Christmas
concert. Janette moved to Eugene during the
summer of 2004, and is a new member of the
Oregon Tuba Association and the Eugene
Ensemble. |
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Susan
Daily
~ has been with the
ensemble since 1995, playing the second
tuba part. She also has been a part of the
Springfield Community Concert Band and the
Junction City Polka Band. Her band
experience began in fifth grade and went in
to college. She works in the medical field
and lives in Eugene with her husband, Bill,
two cats, Jack and Rooster, and her pretty
yellow Harley Davidson Low Rider. |
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Jim
Seaberry ~
started playing tuba in
1939, and was assigned to the 1st
Marine Air Wing Band in Tiajin (Tientsin),
China in 1946. While attending Glendale
City College, Jim was a member of the
Vaquero Marching and Pep Bands. Other
ensembles performed with include: San
Fernando Valley Adult Concert Band, Burbank
Symphony Orchestra, Eugene Symphonic Band
(14yrs) and now completing his 16th
year with the Oregon Tuba Ensemble. Jim
retired in 1990 and lives in Falcon Wood
with his wife, Elizabeth. |
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George Wild ~
Born in England
started playing the cornet at the age of 6
in The Salvation Army, changed over to
Trombone at 15. Emigrated to the
USA
in 1968 continued to play in Salvation Army
Bands as my wife and family moved around the
States. Played Euphonium since arriving in
Eugene in 2003.
Hobbies --- Motorcycling, Soccer,
Video editing.
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Bill Jensen ~
started playing the baritone horn in fifth
grade when his school’s music teacher got
tired of the terrible sounds he was making
on the trumpet. He played through junior
high school and then had to turn in his
school loaned instrument because he had no
time to take music classes. Almost 40 years
later, with his wife’s encouragement, he
began playing again but this time on the
euphonium. Before retiring and moving to
Springfield, Oregon, he played with the
orchestra of the First Evangelical Free
Church of Fullerton, California, and with
the Cypress Symphonic Winds at Cypress
College. |
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