New Hire: David Earll, Ithaca College

Dr. David Earll has been appointed as the Assistant Professor of Tuba/Euphonium at Ithaca College. He will begin teaching there in Fall 2018, and his primary duties will include teaching applied tuba/euphonium, conducting tuba/euphonium ensemble, teaching tuba/euphonium literature and pedagogy courses, coaching chamber music ensembles, and performing with the faculty brass quintet. David currently serves as the Assistant Professor of Tuba, Euphonium, & Trombone at the University of Wisconsin-Platteville. He also currently performs with Sam & Dave's Brass Extravaganza, the UW-Platteville faculty chamber group Ensemble Nouveau, the Tallgrass Brass Band, and has also performed with the Dubuque Symphony Orchestra, the University of South Dakota Faculty Brass Quintet, the Boston-based Nautilus Brass Quintet, and the Paris-based Opus 333 - Quatuor de Saxhorns. David also maintains a busy schedule as a soloist, chamber musician, and clinician throughout the United States and abroad. His most recent tours have included appearances in New York, Texas, Virginia, Tennessee, the greater Midwest, Germany, Austria, Switzerland, France, the Netherlands, and Hong Kong. David completed his Doctorate of Musical Arts in Tuba Performance at Arizona State University under the tutelage of Dr. Deanna Swoboda and received the 2016 Clifford Bevan Award for Excellence in Research for his dissertation. He also holds a Master of Music in Tuba Performance from Arizona State University, where he served as a Teaching Assistant for Professor Sam Pilafian, and a Bachelor of Music in Music Performance at the University of South Dakota. David Earll is a Willson Tuba Artist, and performs exclusively on the Willson 3200 F Tuba and the Willson 3050 CC.