Octubafest

Program

Tower Music | Vaclav Nelhybel

Love thou for Beauty | Clara Schumann (1819-1897), arr. Joanna Ross Hersey

Portraits | Brady Fortman (2004)
       I. New Beginnings
      II. Fog
     III. Light
     IV. Fly

Euphoniums: Zephyr McQuade, Alex Noser, Alex Stetson, Hannah Crowe, Myriad

Tubas: Alyssa Shimmel, Noah White, Braeden Scheirer, Trey Reed, Sam Gillerman, Benton Harris, Ethan Morris, Jacob Stierman, Keith Seppala, Nick Johnson

~Brief Intermission~

Arioso Gloria | Barbara York (1949-2020)

Mandoline | Gabriel Faure (1845–1924)

Caro mio ben | Giueseppe Giordani (1751–1798)

Mythos Suite | Lynn Blake John (1948-2023)
      II. Medusa
      IV. Prometheus

Waltz for Betz | James Grant (b. 1954)

Lion | Connor Gibbs (b. 1995)

Untitled | Andy Frederick (b. 1996)

BIOGRAPHY

Anderson Johnson is Principal Tubist of the Fort Wayne Philharmonic and an adjunct lecturer at Purdue Fort Wayne. He holds a Bachelor of Music in Music Education from Bowling Green State University, Master of Music from the University of Tennessee, and is currently a doctoral candidate at Michigan State University. 

An avid orchestral musician, Johnson has enjoyed performances with the Detroit Symphony, Detroit Opera, Toledo Symphony, and Knoxville Symphony, among others. He is also passionate about chamber music, having performed with numerous quintets, quartets, trios, and tuba-euphonium ensembles on both tuba and euphonium. Johnson is a founding member of the Leonidas Quartet and is a member of the Fort Wayne Philharmonic Brass Quintet. 

As a soloist, Johnson has been named a finalist in concerto competitions at both UT and MSU, as well as two regional tuba/euphonium conference solo competitions. An advocate for new music, he has participated in consortiums for Craig Adams’s Thermopylae, William May’s AirPress and C.J. Kemp’s The Blue Room, and has premiered works by Connor Gibbs, Andy Frederick, T.J. Cole, and others.

Johnson primary teachers are Dave Saltzman, Alex Lapins, Phil Sinder, and Chance Huiet. He has also studied with Yasuhito Sugiyama. 

In his free time, AJ enjoys weightlifting and reading.

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