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Richard Murrow is currently the principal tubist with the East
Texas Symphony Orchestra, Texas Chamber Orchestra, Dallas Jazz
Orchestra, American Chamber Brass, is co-leader of the jazz group, “Brazzology”.
He has also played and recorded with both the Dallas Wind Symphony
and the Dallas Jazz Orchestra. In 1996 Mr. Murrow recorded his
first feature CD with Brazzology co-leader, Larry Spencer, entitled “Pick
Yourself Up”. “Pick Yourself Up” has achieved
international success with sales throughout the U.S. as well as
Europe and Japan. He has recorded numerous commercial CD’s,
plus radio and TV jingles. Richard is a former member of the U.S
Naval Academy Band, The Navy Show Band, Plano Symphony and McKinney
Symphony orchestras. In his early career Richard traveled with
the Ringling Bros. And Barnum & Bailey Circus Band, The Moscow
Circus, and Ice Capades. He has also played with a host of international
artists including Mel Torme, George Shearing, Brian Wilson, The
Moody Blues, and Robert Guillaume just to mention a few.
In addition to his love of the tuba, Richard is
also a freelance bass player. Part of his bass duties include being
the staff
bass player with the Celebration Band at Stonebridge United
Methodist
Church in McKinney, Texas, a position he has held since January,
2000. He has also spent countless hours over the past 30 years
playing bass in every musical genre from pop/commercial, rock,
jazz, country, to stage musicals and recording studios.
Richard Murrow has taught Tuba and Euphonium at
Texas Christian University since 1996. Prior to his appointment
at T.C.U.
Richard Murrow taught at the University of Texas at Arlington
for fifteen
years. As an educator Mr. Murrow has given educational clinics
and solo performances at over 250 universities and high schools
during the past ten years. His teaching and performances have
taken him over most of the United States, as well as some
fifteen countries in South America and Europe. In 1999 Mr.
Murrow was
a guest soloist with the National Orchestra of Peru, in Lima,
Peru, where he also taught at the Lima Conservatory. Richard
Murrow is a tuba Artist/Clinician/Design Consultant for the
Miraphone
Corporation of Waldkraiburg, Germany.
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