Guest Artist Benjamin Pierce, tuba & euphonium

Guest Artist Recital
Thursday, April 3, 2008
7:30 p.m., Gantner Concert Hall
Haas Fine Arts Center
UW-Eau Claire

Free & Open to the Public

Sponsored by the University of Wisconsin-Eau Claire Academic Affairs Professional Development Program, the Department of Music & Theatre Arts, and the Wind & Percussion Division.

Dr. Benjamin Pierce is a member of the music faculty at the University of Arkansas, where he teaches applied tuba and euphonium and directs the tuba/euphonium ensemble. He holds degrees from Bowling Green State University and the University of Michigan.

Pierce has performed with major ensembles including the Detroit Symphony, the Detroit Chamber Brass, the Brass Band of Battle Creek, the Toledo Symphony, and the Flint Symphony. He has served as principal tubist of the Ann Arbor Symphony and the Ann Arbor Brass Quintet and is currently principal tubist of the North Arkansas Symphony Orchestra. He is a founding member of Boston Mountain Brassworks, the University of Arkansas faculty brass quintet.

Dr. Pierce has been a frequent recitalist and clinician at workshops and conferences in the United States and abroad. He has performed as a soloist with numerous ensembles including the Tokyo Symphony, the Oulu Symphony of Finland, the United States Army Band “Pershing’s Own,” the Friuli Veneziano Giulia Symphony Orchestra of northern Italy, the Imperial Brass Band, the Fountain City Brass Band, the Toledo Symphony, and many others.

Pierce has won first prize in many international tuba and euphonium competitions. His two recent solo recordings, Wheels of Life and Cheers, are available directly from www.benpierce.com.

For More Information Contact: 
Dr. Jerry Young
149 Haas Fine Arts Center
Music & Theatre Arts Department
University of Wisconsin-Eau Claire
Eau Claire, WI 54702-4004

Phone: 715/836-3633
Email: jyoung@uwec.edu