Matthew van Emmerik was born in Bendigo, Victoria, Australia in 1978. He is the former principal euphonium player with the Central Band of the Royal Air Force - Uxbridge (United Kingdom) and all Royal Australian Navy Bands respectively. He has also held high profile and principal positions with the worlds leading brass bands including: Black Dyke, Fodens, Leyland, Desford Colliery, Brighouse and Rastrick, Dalewool, Kew Band Melbourne and National Australia Brass.

Matthew recently performed The Philip Wilby Euphonium Concerto with the Tasmanian Symphony orchestra, as the first soloist to perform a euphonium concerto with an Australasian Symphony Orchestra. His playing profile is truly extensive and has performed with the Auckland Philharmonia, Melbourne Symphony, Sydney Symphony and West Australian Symphony Orchestras respectively.

Matthew is the solo euphonium player with Australia’s premiere brass band National Australia Brass and has adjudicated contests all across Australia, New Zealand, the USA and Europe.

Matthew is an Adams Instruments Performing Artist.

Adam Frey is a Yamaha Artist.

Hailing from Brazil, Fernando Deddos has established himself as one of the most versatile young euphoniumists. He performs as a soloist, chamber musician, and composers regularly. He has performed with the Parana State Symphony Orchestra, for two years with Femusc Professors Orchestra, Porto Alegre Symphony Orchestra, São Paulo State Symphony Orchestra, PUC-PR Symphony, Cordoba Wind Orchestra (Arg.).

At the 2010 ITEC (International Tuba-Euphonium Conference), one of his works (“Rabecando”) received the first prize in the Harvey Phillips award for Composition Excellence and his recording Euphonia Braziliaro also received the first place in the Roger Bobo Awards for Excellence in Recording (ITEC2010).

Fernando Deddos is an Adams Performing Artist.

The American Steve Rosse enjoys an exotic international career as orchestral tubist, tuba soloist, educator, and presenter of international festivals and other educational events for tuba/ brass. Based in Sydney, Australia as Principal Tuba with the Sydney Symphony in the famed Sydney Opera House, Rosse spends on average 4-5 months a year traveling the globe with his tuba(s), mainly to his favorite destinations: Japan, Thailand, France, and Italy. When in Sydney and while away, he runs the bulk of the Brass Program at the Sydney Conservatorium of Music, where he has an all-star list of current and former tuba students from around the globe, many which now occupy major orchestral positions throughout Europe, Asia, and Australia. Rosse has recently performed with the symphony orchestras of Boston, San Francisco, San Diego, Philadelphia, and continues to perform and tour quite often with groups as diverse as the Philadelphia Orchestra to several Sydney-based community brass bands.

Steve Rosse is a Miraphone Performing Artist.

Dr. Brian L. Bowman enjoys a distinguished career as a soloist, clinician, recording artist, educator and administrator. Dr. Bowman has held the principal euphonium position, in addition to being a featured soloist, in each of the bands he has been associated with: The University of Michigan Symphony Band, The United States Navy Band, The United States Bicentennial Band, The United States Air Force Band and The River City Brass Band in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania.

He is in demand as a guest soloist with high school, university, municipal and professional ensembles. He has performed as a soloist in all 50 states, Canada, Mexico, The Virgin Islands, Norway, Finland, Germany, Belgium, Holland, Hungary, Great Britain, France, Italy, Switzerland, Australia, Japan, Tonga Taiwan, Thailand and the People’s Republic of China. He has appeared as tenor tubist with the National Symphony, the Pittsburgh Symphony Orchestra, the Colorado Symphony, the San Francisco Symphony, Oklahoma City Philharmonic, the Dallas Symphony Orchestra and the Orchestra Symphonica of Xlapa, Mexico. He has performed concertos with the Lexington Kentucky Symphony, the Sapporo Japan, Symphony Orchestra the North Carolina Symphony and the Madison Wisconsin Symphony Orchestra.

Dr. Bowman is a Willson Performing Artist.

Staff Sergeant Lauren Veronie, US Army Field Band

Staff Sergeant Lauren Veronie serves as euphoniumist with the United States Army Field Band in Washington, D.C. She has been a featured soloist with the Concert Band in eighteen states and regularly performs with the Field Band’s Brass Quintet. SSG Veronie is a graduate of the University of North Texas, where she studied euphonium with Brian L. Bowman. She graduated Summa cum laude in 2005 with a bachelor’s degree in performance and went on to earn a master’s in 2007.

SSG Veronie was the winner of the 2004 Potomac International Euphonium Competition. She has recorded extensively with the North Texas Wind Symphony, performed with the Dallas Wind Symphony and spent her early years with the Houston Symphonic Band. When not on tour with the Field Band, SSG Veronie enjoys hiking, reading science fiction, and cooking Cajun food. She maintains a blog about her travels at www.laureneuph.com.

Martin Cochran, Univ of Alabama - Birm.

Dr. Cochran is a Sterling Performing Artist.

Chris Blaha, Appalachian State Univ