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Seth
David Fletcher recently completed the Doctor of Musical Arts
degree in euphonium performance and the Certificate in Music Theory
Pedagogy at the University of North Carolina at Greensboro. During
his tenure as a Graduate Assistant at UNCG, Seth
taught music theory and ear training, private euphonium and tuba
lessons, euphonium and tuba studio classes, and has conducted the UNCG
Tuba Band and Euphonium Choir. Additionally, Seth served as a Grogan
College Faculty Fellow in music for the 2006-2007 academic year,
teaching UNS 105 and supervising one of two music learning communities
at UNCG.
Seth has performed and recorded
extensively as a soloist and with several groups, recently performing at
Carnegie Hall with the 40th Anniversary Tennessee Tech
All-Star Tuba Ensemble in January of 2007. In 2003, he appeared as a
featured soloist at Carnegie Hall with the Tennessee Tech Tuba Ensemble,
performing his own arrangement of the finale to Vladimir Cosma’s
Euphonium Concerto, which he later recorded on the CD Carnegie VI.
Additionally, Seth has appeared as soloist with the Tennessee Tech
Symphony Band, the Tennessee Tech Orchestra, the Tintwistle Brass Band
and the Douglas High School Concert Band. He can be heard on
recordings by the Tennessee Tech Symphony Band, the Tennessee Tech Tuba
Ensemble, Euphoniums Unlimited, and the Royal Northern College of Music
Wind Ensemble.
Also
active in promoting new
research in brass pedagogy and performance, Seth recently presented
talks on focal dystonia at the 2007 Southeast Regional Tuba-Euphonium
Conference at Western Carolina University and the 2007 Southwest
Regional Tuba-Euphonium Conference at the University of Arizona.
As a proponent of the development
of euphonium literature, he authored two
chapters concerning chamber music in The Euphonium Source Book,
available from Indiana University Press.
Seth holds a Master of Music degree
in performance from the Royal Northern College of Music in Manchester,
England and a Bachelor of Music in instrumental music education from
Tennessee Technological University. His teachers include Dennis AsKew,
Steven Mead, and R. Winston Morris. Seth resides in Greensboro, North
Carolina with his lovely wife Allison and their two furry children,
Aoife and Rex.
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