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Please, help me to know the most important tuba soloists. Some names that I already know: Roger Bobo, Øystein Baadsvik, Roland Szentpáli, Patrick Sheridan, James Gourlay

Help me to make this list bigger

Sam Pilafian.
Harvey Phillips.

Howard Johnson

Michael Lind
Sergio Carolino
Carol Jantsch
Hans Nickel
David Zerkel
Gene Pokorny
Rex Martin
John Manning

John Fletcher
Jim Self

Historic addition: Bill Bell

Most players - with a reasonable amount of experience - can play so low.

Jeez - how did nobody mention the one guy whose tuba solos are probably the most iconic and most widely heard by people all over the planet of any tubist ever via his movie soundtracks - the legendary Tommy Johnson.

I will also add to the list the great Rich Matteson - who spent a couple years with The Dukes of Dixieland on helicon and of course his work with Harvey Phillips in the Matteson Phillips TubaJazz Consort. Those records still hold up all these years later and my local jazz station plays them at least once a week. He also was a phenomenal Euphonium player.

Dave Gannett - the one album I know: "Tubas from Hell". Music for a rainy day on the sofa.
Walter Hilgers, especially the albums "Tubaroque" and "Tubadour" with pianist Sebastian Knauer.
Michel Godard
Andreas Martin Hofmeir
Albert Wieder
Bob Stewart

Robson wrote: Wed Jul 09, 2025 8:41 pm Please, help me to know the most important tuba soloists.

Bargeron, almost all of us olds saw him on tv when we were sprouts.

Almost all of us olds had friends who sought us out to tell us about seeing BS&T tuba on tv

if public acclaim is important...in that time, to us, Dave is very important as a tuba soloist. RiP

https://www.legacy.com/us/obituaries/at ... d=57427029

Another vote for Hans Nickel.

I recently became aware of Bernd Van Echelpoel. He's the tubist for the Antwerp Symphony Orchestra. There's one solo album, titled "Berno", on Spotify. It's worth a listen.

Some of them I already knew, like Hans Nickel but I forgot to mention...
But some names I've never heard before.
Thanks guys!!!

Jens Bjorn-Larsen

Thomas Lélu

I am a little surprised no one has mentioned Eduardo Nogueroles... I really like his playing

Velvet Brown

Siegfried Jung

Zdzislaw Piernik, contemporary music tuba soloist

Thank you for starting this thread!

It feels like i have heard of less
than half the names here, and the youtube posts of playing probably i will appreciate more than the names when i find the time. But yeah, i am relatively ignorant too, so keep 'em coming and maybe i'll be less ignorant eventually.