Lecturer in Music, Percussion
Kyle Brightwell joined the Boston Symphony Orchestra at the start of the 2012-13 season. He began his musical studies on piano and guitar at age four, and began focusing on percussion studies at age eleven. An avid performer/percussionist living in Boston, Mr. Brightwell has performed with the Boston Symphony Orchestra, U.S. Navy Band, U.S. Army Orchestra, Orquestra Sinfonica da Bahia (Brazil), Boston Philharmonic, and the New World Symphony, among others. Future and recent performances include those with Kansas City Symphony and the Hyogo Performing Arts Center Orchestra (Japan), as well as his solo debut with the Dubuque Symphony Orchestra performing James MacMillan’s Veni, Veni, Emmanuel in March 2012. Mr. Brightwell’s summer engagements have included fellowships at the Tanglewood Music Center, Pacific Music Festival, and National Orchestral Institute. In summer 2012 he taught at the Boston University Tanglewood Institute (BUTI), where he spent three years as a student while in high school. In addition to his performance career, Kyle Brightwell is very dedicated to community outreach through music. While living in New York City, he was a faculty member at The Juilliard School’s Music Advancement Program (MAP) for underprivileged inner-city youth, and was also appointed a fellow of the Gluck Community Service Fellowship (GCSF), for which he performed concerts throughout New York in homeless shelters, psychiatric wards, AIDS centers, and many more venues in need of music. Kyle Brightwell is a graduate of The Juilliard School, where he studied with New York Philharmonic percussionist Daniel Druckman. He received his master’s degree in 2012 from the Boston University School of Music, where he studied with BSO principal timpanist Timothy Genis.
Lecturer in Music, Percussion
Timothy Genis joined the Boston Symphony Orchestra in May 1993 as assistant timpani of the BSO and timpani of the Boston Pops Orchestra. Mr. Genis attended the Juilliard School and the Eastman School of Music. From July 1991 until his BSO appointment, he was associate timpani and assistant principal percussion of the Honolulu Symphony. Previously he was principal timpani with the Philharmonia Virtuosi and the Radio City Music Hall Orchestra in New York and assistant principal percussion of the Hong Kong Philharmonic for two years. A Tanglewood Music Center fellow in 1990, Mr. Genis also attended the Boston University Tanglewood Institute. Currently head of the percussion department at Boston University, he also runs the BUTI percussion program at Tanglewood and is an active clinician for the Zildjian Cymbal Company, Remo Drum Company, Perl/Adams Drums, and Vic Firth, Inc. In fall 2003 Mr. Genis developed a line of timpani sticks that are currently being marketed by Vic Firth, Inc. Teachers include Roland Kohloff, Chris Lamb, Joe Morello, Elden Bailey, John Beck, William Cahn, and Anthony Cirone.
Chair, Department of Brass, Winds & Percussion; Associate Professor of Music, Trombone and Euphonium
BM, MM, Texas Tech University; North Texas State University; Berklee College of Music; doctoral degree, the University of Houston; Middle Tennessee State University
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Don Lucas, Native of Falls Church, Virginia, USA, received his education as a Fulbright Scholar to London’s Guildhall School of Music (Premiere Prix & Advanced Solo Studies Diplomas), Texas Tech University (BM, MM), North Texas State University, Berklee College of Music, The University of Houston (Doctoral) and Middle Tennessee State University. His principal teachers include Denis Wick, Robert Deahl, Al Lube, Carsten Svanberg, Michel Becquet, Allen Barnhill, John Marcellus, Phil Wilson, Leon Brown, and Dave Maser.
Mr. Lucas has performed with the St. Paul Chamber Orchestra, Santa Fe Pro Musica Chamber Orchestra, the Empire Brass Quintet, New Mexico Symphony, Minnesota Symphony Orchestra, San Antonio Symphony, North Carolina Symphony, and the American Wind Symphony, performing under noted conductors Ivan Fischer, Hugh Wolf, Christopher Hogwood, John Adams, and Leonard Slatkin.
Internationally, Mr. Lucas has appeared frequently as a soloist, recitalist, adjudicator, and clinician in engagements in the United Kingdom, Russia, Korea, and China including: Wigmore Hall (London), the British Trombone Society Festival, the Repton Brass Festival, the Royal Northern College of Music and Cheathams School of Music (Manchester), the Royal Academy of Music (London), the Guildhall School of Music (London), Trinity-Laban Conservatory of Music (London), the Royal Welsh Academy of Music (Cardiff), the Royal Scottish Academy of Music (Glasgow), the Tchaikovsky Conservatory (Moscow), the Rimsky-Korsakov Conservatory (St. Petersburg), the Fine Arts Institute (Vladivostok), the JeJu International Music Festival, Korea Trombone Festival, Yonsei University, Seoul & Four South Korean Summer Trombone Festivals, Central Music Conservatory, Beijing, Shenyang Conservatory, Xinghai Conservatory, Guangzhou, and the Hong Kong Academy of the Arts.
Other international engagements include: Two Brazilian Trombone Association National Festivals (Rio de Janeiro, Brasilia), University of Rio International Trombone Festival, the Conservatoire Superieur de Music a Rayonnement (Paris, France), Trombones de Costa Rica International Brass Festival (San Jose), Melos Brass Festival, (Corfu, Greece), nine I.T.A. International Trombone Festivals (Paris/France, Feldkirch/Austria, Aarhus/Denmark & USA) & the International Trombone Symposium (Melbourne, Australia).
In the United States, Mr. Lucas has appeared frequently as a soloist, recitalist, adjudicator, and clinician. Past engagements include: Weill Recital Hall at Carnegie, Terrace Theatre at the Kennedy Center, the Julliard School, the Eastman School of Music, Rice University, the U.S. Army Band and Orchestra “Pershings Own”, the U.S. Naval Academy Band, the West Point U.S. Military Academy Band, the Midwest Band and Orchestra Clinic, the Masterworks Festival the Eastern Trombone Workshop (Washington, D.C.), Harmony Ridge Brass Festival (VT), 76 Trombones+4 Trombone Festival, Las Vegas, College Band Directors National Association Convention, the Texas Music Educators Association Convention, Las Vegas Music Festival, Texas Bandmasters Association Convention, Interlochen Arts Academy, Boston University’s Tanglewood Institute, the New York Conference for Brass Scholarships as well as over a hundred appearances at US festivals, conservatories, universities, schools, and camps.
Principal commissions/world premieres include solos by Fisher Tull, Derek Bourgeouis, Franz Cibulka, Henk Badings, Eddie Bass, Elena Roussanova Lucas, Gary D. Belshaw, Mary Jeanne van Appledorn, and Adam Gorb. His solo recordings include Cantabile and Hymns for Trombone (1988). He has also recorded with the St. Paul Chamber Orchestra and the American Wind Symphony.
Mr. Lucas’s honors include the only Premeir Prix Diploma ever awarded to a brass player in the history of the Guildhall School of Music (London); listing in Marquis, Who’s Who in America Music; Bronze Medal L’unamite, Finalist—Toulon International Solo Competition (France); First Prize Winner—International Trombone Association Frank Smith International Trombone Solo Competition; First Place “Fellow”—Harmony Ridge Brass Festival International Solo Competition; First Place (solo and group competitions)—National Christian Artists Seminar; and First Prize (with The American Classic Trombone Quartet)—Summit Brass International Brass Chamber Group Competition.
Mr. Lucas is the Trombone Professor at Boston University. Previous teaching appointments include Texas Tech University, Eastern New Mexico University, Sam Houston State University, and the public schools of Virginia, Texas, and North Carolina.
Mr. Lucas is an Artist/Clinician for the Michael Rath Trombone Company of Honley, England, UK.
Lecturer in Music, Percussion
BM, MM, the Juilliard School
Samuel Z. Solomon also teaches percussion at the Boston Conservatory and the Boston University Tanglewood Institute and is President of the Massachusetts Chapter of the Percussive Arts Society. A fervent supporter of contemporary music, he has been responsible for dozens of world premieres of solo and small ensemble works. His book, How to Write for Percussion, has received critical acclaim from composers, performers, and conductors worldwide and will soon be available in three languages. He has also authored three books on percussion playing and curated two collections of percussion etudes and solos.
Solomon is founding member of the Yesaroun’ Duo and the Line C3 percussion group, from 2005 to 2010 he was percussionist-in-residence at Harvard University, and since 2003 he has been principal timpanist of the Amici New York chamber orchestra. He can be heard as soloist and chamber musician on GM, Albany, Bedroom Community, and Tzadik labels, as well as performing the music of Björk on her soundtrack to Matthew Barney’s film Drawing Restraint 9. He lives in Hull, Massachusetts, with his wife Kristy and son Nicolas. Please visit www.szsolomon.com for more information.
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