Roger Bobo

Roger Bobo ( born June 8, 1938 in Los Angeles ) is an American musician (tuba, bass horn, French horn ) and music educator.

Life and work

Bobo earned a bachelor's degree at the Eastman School of Music and played from 1956 to 1962 in the Rochester Philharmonic Orchestra, conducted by Erich Leinsdorf; then he was employed from 1962 to 1964 under Bernard Haitink at the Concertgebouw Orchestra. After that, he was for 25 years at the Los Angeles Philharmonic Orchestra; During this time he worked under Zubin Mehta, Carlo Maria Giulini and André Previn. As a session musician, he also played with shots of Don Ellis ( Autumn, 1968), Neil Diamond, Gerry Mulligan (The Age of Steam, 1971), Earth, Wind & Fire, Jaco Pastorius (Word of Mouth, 1981), Van Dyke Parks and the Meridian Arts Ensemble (Smart Went Crazy ) and the Los Angeles Brass Quintet. In addition, he also worked in the soundtrack of the Steven Spielberg film Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom (1984 ) with.

On one of his albums in his own name Tuba Libera (Crystal Records) he performed compositions by Dmitri Shostakovich, Krzysztof Penderecki, Trygve Madsen, Ion Dumitrescu and Jean -Baptiste Arban. Recordings from the 1970s and 1980s contained the 2007 released album Rainbo -Bo: The Man With The Golden Tuba, including Morton Subotnick with The First Dream of Light ( 1980).

Bobo designed the bass horn as a 5- ventiliges horn, blown with a very large cup mouthpiece in the tonal range of a tuba.

As a music educator, he worked at the School of Music in Fiesole, at the music conservatories in Lausanne and Rotterdam, at the Royal Northern College of Music in Manchester. Bobo now lives in Japan and teaches at the Musashino School of Music in Tokyo. Pay his pupils, inter alia, Øystein Baadsvik, Michel Godard, Mark Hötzel, Roland Fröscher and Christian Lindberg. He is the author of the textbook Mastering the Tuba (Editions Bim ).

Alexander Arutiunian devoted Bobo his 1992 Concerto for Tuba arisen and Symphony Orchestra in 3 Movements. The International Association tuba euphonium writes the annual Roger Bobo Awards For Excellence in from recording.

Disco Graphical Notes

  • Bobissimo (1969)
  • Tuba Nova (1981 )
  • The Music of William Kraft ( Cambria, 1993)
  • Tuba Libera (1994 )
  • Gravity Is Light Today (1997), with Frøydis Ree Wekre, Roger Kellaway
  • Rainbo - bo: The Man With The Golden Tuba (2007)
Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra Word of Mouth (Jaco Pastorius album) Discogs Integrated Authority File
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