The ITEA Board of Directors welcomes
Dr. Gail Robertson as the newly-elected Vice-President/President-Elect.
Gail serves as Assistant Professor of Tuba and Euphonium/Jazz at the University of Central Arkansas where she is tubist in the Pinnacle Bra
Tubas Under the Boardwalk.”
She has recently completed her D.M.A. as a University Distinguished
Fellow at Michigan State University studying with Phil Sinder, Ava
Ordman, and Ricardo Lorenz. She has taught on the faculties of Eastern
Michigan University, the University of Central Florida, Bethune-Cookman
University, the University of Florida, Valencia, and Seminole Community
Colleges, and remains active as a teacher, adjudicator, composer,
arranger and free-lance artist, both nationally and internationally.
Robertson is the Chair/Chief Editor of the
International Tuba and Euphonium Press, and serves on the Board of Directors of the
Leonard Falcone Tuba and Euphonium Festival, the
International Tuba and Euphonium Association (ITEA), and the
International Women’s Brass Conference (IWBC).
She has served as President of the IWBC and as a conference host in
2010 and 2006. She has also served as Euphonium and Membership
Coordinator of the International Tuba and Euphonium Association (ITEA)
and was the featured artist on the cover of the
ITEA Journal (Vol. 38:1, Fall 2010). Two of Gail’s original works have also been featured Gems in the
ITEA Journal (
Jazz Encounter No. 1 – Gem Series No. 22, Vol. 38:1, Fall 2010, and
Allegro et Andantango – Gem Series No. 33, Vol. 41:3, Spring 2014).
In 2015, Gail served as the Euphonium Clinician for the prestigious
American Band College in Ashland, Oregon. She was recently awarded the 2014
Clifford Bevan Award for Excellence in Research
for her research manuscript, “Restoring the Euphonium’s Legacy as Cello
of the Wind Band.” Her original work for brass quintet,
Tower Guard Tribute,
was awarded honorable mention by the 2014 International Alliance for
Women in Music’s Patsy Lu competition. In May 2009, Gail recorded a new
CD with Dr. Stacy Baker, Alex Thio, and Dr. Deb Eastwood, called “
SymbiosisDuo.” SYM
BIOSISDUO released their second CD, “
Playground,”
in February 2015. Several of the works recorded by the duo were newly
commissioned works written especially for the duo, including Composers:
Franz Cibulka, Jim Self, James Grant, Christopher Marshall, Brian
Balmages, Chris Sharp, Kimberly Archer, T.O. Sterrett, and Phillip
Bimstein. In 2007, Gail received Tau Beta Sigma’s highest honor, the
“Outstanding Service to Music Award.”
Gail has also been a clinician for the MIDWEST Band and Orchestra
Clinic in Chicago, the Florida Music Educators Association, the Michigan
Music Conference, and numerous ITEA, IWBC, and United States Army Tuba
and Euphonium Conferences. Recently, In December 2016, Gail was
District VI
Jazz Clinician/Artist for Harrison School District in Harrison,
Arkansas. Dr. Robertson has acted as euphonium clinician for the
American Band College (Ashland, OR) and DIxie Band Camp (Conway, AR).
Dr. Gail Robertson served together with Dr. Stacy Baker as Co-Instrumental Advisor and Co-Curriculum Designer for the
Pro-Series Elite Practice Systems for Tuba and Euphonium
providing all exercises, instruction, and quartet arrangements as well
as performing as on-screen talent alongside some of their students for
the revolutionary pedagogical series of 10 DVDs for tuba and 10 DVDs for
euphonium. The project was fully funded and released by American
Product Group, LLC (2013), along with similar series for each of the
wind instruments. Gail has published articles, reviews, and compositions
for the online magazine,
Bandworld, and the
International Tuba Euphonium Association Journal.
Gail Robertson has toured the U.S., Europe, China, and Japan with
Keith Brion’s “New Sousa Band,” the Brass Band of Battle Creek, the
Monarch Brass, the Athena Brass Band, and the Brass Band of Central
Florida. She has also performed as a featured soloist at Carnegie Hall
with Jay Gephart, Director, and Purdue University’s Wind Ensemble, the
Boston Symphony Orchestra, the Detroit Symphony Orchestra, the Ann Arbor
Symphony, the River City Brass Band, Jack Daniel’s Silver Cornet Band,
Euphoniums Unlimited, Symphonia, the Orlando based “Horns and Pipes”
Brass and Percussion Ensemble, and SYM
BIOSISDUO. In
April 2016, Dr. Robertson was tenor tubist for the Sarasota
Orchestra/Sarasota Ballet performance of Balanchine’s “Stars and
Stripes.” Her published works and arrangements are available through GAR
MUSIC, Euphonium.com, and Tuba-Euphonium Press. As a Willson Euphonium
Artist, Robertson’s euphonium of choice is a
Willson 2950TA with a bronze
Warburton/Gail Robertson mouthpiece.
