Lecturer in Music
Marty was principal/solo tubist with the United States Navy Band in Washington, D.C., where he served for twenty-six years. He has been the principal Eb Tubist with the Brass Band of Battle Creek for the past fifteen years and is a founding member of Millennium Brass Quintet, The Symphonia tuba-euphonium ensemble, and the Tuba-Percussion duo Balance with percussionist Alison Shaw.
Having served on the faculties of Penn State University and Eastern Michigan University, Mr. Erickson is in his fifth year as Lecturer of Tuba, Euphonium and Chamber music at the Conservatory of Music at Lawrence University and performs with the Lawrence Brass faculty brass quintet.
Mr. Erickson has performed as a soloist/clinician throughout Western and Eastern Europe, Japan, Scandinavia, United Kingdom. Bermuda, Cuba and in 48 of the 50 United States. He has performed with the Boston Pops Orchestra, the National Symphony and Annapolis Chamber Orchestras (with performances at Carnegie Hall and the J.F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts), the Baltimore Opera Orchestra, the Maryland Symphony, the Washington Masterworks Orchestra, and the Smithsonian Masterworks Jazz Orchestra under the direction of Gunther Schuller, and most recently, as principal tuba with the Green Bay Symphony. He has also performed as soloist on concert and recital series programs with the United States Army Band, The United States Army Field Band, the United States Marine Band and the Army Garrison bands of Oulu and Helsinki, Finland. In April 2008, Mr. Erickson performed four concerts with the Chicago Symphony Orchestra, serving as “extra tuba” in performances of Symphony Fantastique with CSO tubist and longtime friend Gene Pokorny, under the direction of Maestro Kenneth Nagano.
He has been a featured jazz and classical performer at five International Tuba-Euphonium Conventions, which will include ITEC 2008 at the Cincinnati Conservatory of Music. He was a featured jazz soloist and member of the Balance Duo which performed at the International Women’s Brass conference at Illinois State University this past June. In May 2007, Marty was the guest jazz performer and “docent” at the Deutsches Tuba Forum International Conference in Hammelburg, Germany, his fourth consecutive conference of service in that country.
In addition to his solo jazz CDs "My Very Good Friend" and "Smile," Mr. Erickson may be heard on over forty recordings of orchestra, concert band, brass band, dixieland jazz, folk, and children's music. His most recent recordings include performances with the Millennium Brass Quintet, the Brass Band of Battle Creek, and the New Columbian Brass Band on the Dorian label, as well as Grammy-nominated recordings with the Symphonia Tuba-Euphonium Ensemble. His newest CD is a collaboration with trombonist Wycliffe Gordon entitled “You and I,” released in the late spring of 2008.
A Past-President of Tubists Universal Brotherhood Association (now ITEA-International Tuba and Euphonium Association), Mr. Erickson is currently the jazz editor for the ITEA Journal publication. He is the Adjudicating Chairman for the Leonard Falcone International Euphonium and Tuba Festival (LFIETF), and serves on the Board of Directors for the Colonial Euphonium Tuba Institute (CETI), as well as the Quorum Chamber Arts Collective. Most recently, Mr. Erickson served as clinician and adjudicator for the National Association for Brass Bands in America (NABBA) championships in New Albany, IN.
Marty is a clinician/design consultant for the Willson tubas distributed by the Getzen Company in the US, and performs on the Willson 3400S Eb Tuba, the 3100S BBb Tubas and the Erickson Signature mouthpieces he helped to design.
Contact by e-mail: marty.erickson@lawrence.edu
Marty Erickson's personal webpage: http://www.martytuba.com
