Tuesday, December 11, 2018

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.

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