PRESENTATION

Andrew Jones

Saturday, May 18, 2024

3:30 P.M. Choral Rehearsal Hall
Moore Musical Arts Center

Program

The Life and Music of Barton Cummings

This lecture recital will shed new light on the life and music (commissions and original compositions) of virtuoso tubist, educator, conductor, author, and composer Barton Cummings (1946-2014).

Part I - Lecture

Part II - Recital

Midnight Variations for Tuba and Tape (1971) | Walter Ross (1936-2021)

Three Abstracts for Tuba (1976) | Jae Eun Ha (b. 1937)
          I. Abstract Vision
         II. Morning Calm
        III. Etude

Fantasia Breve for Tuba and Piano (1989) | Barton Cummings (1946-2014)
          I. Allegro assai
         II. Larghetto
        III. Molto allegro - marcato

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Tubist Andrew Jones holds the Doctor of Musical Arts from the University of Cincinnati, College-Conservatory of Music, a Master of Music in Performance from the University of Arkansas, and a Bachelor of Music Education and a Bachelor of Performance from the University of North Texas. His primary teachers include Timothy J. Northcut, Dr. Benjamin Pierce, Donald C. Little, and Ed Jones. 

Jones is currently a freelance musician based in Cincinnati, OH. He has performed with the Cincinnati Chamber Orchestra, the Dayton Philharmonic, the Dayton Opera, the Dayton Ballet, the Fort Worth Symphony Orchestra, and the North Texas Wind Symphony, among others. He has performed in chamber music settings with the University of Dayton Faculty Brass Quintet, the Seven Hills Brass, the Canterbury Brass, the Oakwood Brass, the Legacy Brass Quintet, and the 5K Brass Quintet, a group he has been a member of since 2018. He has been a semi-finalist and finalist in competitions such as the International Tuba Euphonium Association’s Arnold Jacobs Mock Orchestral Tuba Competition, the International Women's Brass Conference Brass Orchestral Excerpts Competition, and the student and artist divisions of the Leonard Falcone International Tuba and Euphonium Solo Competition.  

Jones teaches applied tuba and euphonium and courses in brass pedagogy at the University of Dayton and Wittenberg University. In addition to his collegiate duties, he also has a large studio of junior high and high school students in the Southwest Ohio region.  

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Updated: 09/18/2024 04:30PM