New Hire: Andrew Doub, Louisville Orchestra

Andrew Doub has recently won the position of Principal Tuba with the Louisville Orchestra and began playing with the ensemble in November 2018. Andrew is a founding member of The Brass Project, a chamber brass ensemble whose playing has been described by the Philadelphia Inquirer as “superb.” He completed two years of undergraduate studies at West Virginia University before transferring to the Curtis institute of Music. He studies with Paul Krzywicki, who is retired from the Philadelphia Orchestra, and with Craig Knox, principal tuba of the Pittsburgh Symphony Orchestra.

New Hire: Jim Andrus, Boulder Philharmonic Orchestra

Jim Andrus is the new Principal Tubist of the Boulder Philharmonic Orchestra. He began playing with the ensemble in October 2018. In addition to performing in the full orchestra concerts, Jim plays in the Boulder Philharmonic Brass Quintet in community and educational concerts throughout the greater Boulder, Colorado area. Jim is a native of Salt Lake City, Utah and is in the final year of his Bachelor of Music program at the University of Utah, where he studies with Gary Ofenloch. He has performed with the Utah Symphony Orchestra and has been selected as Principal Tubist at several esteemed music festivals, including the World Youth Symphony Orchestra at the Interlochen Center for the Arts, where he studied with David Zerkel and Philip Sinder, and the Vancouver Symphony Orchestral Institute at Whistler, where he studied with Peder MacLellan. While in Canada, Jim was selected as one of several finalists in the festival’s concerto competition and made his solo debut with the University of British Columbia Chamber Festival Orchestra in the esteemed Chan Centre for the Performing Arts.