Tuba
Faculty: Mike Roylance, BSO
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NEC’s brass faculty is drawn almost exclusively from the neighboring Boston Symphony Orchestra, offering students the opportunity to study with professional musicians who are actively creating music, and who are living and working as successful musicians.
As a student in the tuba program, you will have performance opportunities to work in large and small ensembles such as the NEC Wind Ensemble and the NEC Jordan Winds, as well three full orchestras, which perform throughout the calendar year in venues such as NEC’s own Jordan Hall. You will also attend weekly one-on-one private lessons with distinguished faculty, as well as most recent faculty hire Mike Roylance, who was recently appointed as a tubist with both the Boston Symphony Orchestra and the Boston Pops Orchestra.
Besides studio work and regular performance opportunities, course work in music history and theory will help give depth and understanding to your performance repertoire. The liberal arts curriculum is an opportunity to study major academic disciplines as well as cultural, social, intellectual, and political contexts for music.
Upcoming tuba events at NEC:
October 1: First Monday at Jordan Hall
October 3: NEC Philharmonia
October 11: NEC Wind Ensemble
October 17: NEC Sinfonietta
October 22: NEC Symphony Orchestra
October 25: NEC Jordan Winds
November 5: First Monday at Jordan Hall
November 6: NEC Philharmonia
November 13: NEC Wind Ensemble
November 19: NEC Jordan Winds
December 3: First Monday at Jordan Hall
December 5: NEC Sinfonietta
December 12: NEC Symphony Orchestra
December 13: NEC Wind Ensemble/NEC Jordan Winds
February 4: NEC Philharmonia
February 6: NEC Symphony Orchestra
February 10: NEC Brass Bash
February 13: NEC Sinfonietta
February 14: NEC Wind Ensemble
February 28: NEC Jordan Winds
March 3: First Monday at Jordan Hall
April 2: NEC Sinfonietta
April 7: First Monday at Jordan Hall
April 10: NEC Wind Ensemble/NEC Jordan Winds
April 16: NEC Philharmonia
April 21: NEC Chorus/NEC Sinfonietta
April 23: NEC Symphony Orchestra
May 5: First Monday at Jordan Hall
Mike Roylance of the tuba faculty is a member of the Boston Symphony Orchestra. Find upcoming BSO concerts.