Mark
Cox
Mark
Cox,
associate professor of tuba and euphonium, holds the bachelor of
music and doctor of musical arts degrees in performance from the
Eastman School of Music, and a master of music degree in performance
from Northwestern University. While attending the Eastman School of
Music, he received the prestigious performer's certificate in tuba.
Dr. Cox has performed with numerous professional organizations,
including the Rochester Philharmonic Orchestra (NY), Midland (MI),
and Penfield (NY) Symphony Orchestras principal tubist, and Syracuse
Symphony (NY) and the New World Symphony Orchestra (FL) as
substitute tubist. He has held faculty positions at the Eastman
School of Music; State University of New York at Geneseo; and
Nazareth College (Rochester, NY). In the summer, he has held the
position of tuba and euphonium instructor at the New England Music
Camp, a summer music institute in Maine for talented high school
musicians. Dr. Cox is a board member and has judged for the Leonard
Falcone International Euphonium and Tuba Solo Competition. He is
also member of T.U.BA. and the music fraternity Phi Mu Alpha
Sinfonia. His teachers have included Cherry Beauregard, professor
of tuba and euphonium at the Eastman School of Music, principal
tubist with the
Rochester
Philharmonic and tubist with Eastman Brass Quintet; Arnold Jacobs,
tubist with the Chicago Symphony Orchestra and breathing guru;
Ronald Bishop, principal tubist with the Cleveland Symphony
Orchestra; Rex Conner, professor of tuba at the University of
Kentucky at Lexington and instructor of tuba and euphonium at the
National Music Camp at Interlochen, Michigan; and Roger Bobo,
international recording artist and principal tubist with the Los
Angeles Symphony Orchestra. Dr. Cox has performed in most of the
major concert halls in the United States, Germany, and Japan and has
performed with numerous international performers including
trumpeters Wynton Marsalis and Randy Brecker; saxophonists Branford
Marsalis and John Herle, flutist James Galway, pianists Shera
Sherkaski and Jeffrey Jacob, trombonist J.J. Johnson, and drummer
Max Roach. Recordings on which Dr. Cox can be heard include
Carnaval with Wynton Marsalis (CBS Masterworks); Pied Piper
Fantasy with James Galway (Sony); Live in Osaka with the
Eastman Wind Ensemble (Sony), Chorale Works of Anton Bruckner
with the Roberts Wesleyan College Chorale; Music of Ingolf Dahl,
with the New World Symphony Orchestra; and the music education
series Jump Right In (G.A.A. Publications). Dr. Cox
gives seminars on teaching, performing, and offers his popular
seminar, “Proper Breathing Techniques for Musicians,” throughout the
United States. Dr. Cox’s students are active throughout Michigan
and the United States, both as public school teachers and
professional performers. His former students have won the Yamaha
Young Artists Competition; placed in the artist division of the
Leonard Falcone International Solo Competition; are members of
Pershings’ Own, the top United States Army Band; and have had
numerous solo performances around the nation. Mark Cox is a Yamaha
performing artist.
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