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South Carolinian Ralph Winston Morris (b. 1941), known for his signature "soul patch", is the professor of Tuba and Euphonium at Tennessee Tech University in Cookeville, Tennessee. He is editor of The Tuba Source Book and the Euphonium Source Book. As the conductor of the famed Tennessee Tech Tuba Ensemble, he started promoting jazz tuba performance in an ensemble setting as early as 1967.
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South Carolinian Ralph Winston Morris (b. 1941), known for his signature "soul patch", is the professor of Tuba and Euphonium at Tennessee Tech University in Cookeville, Tennessee. He is editor of The Tuba Source Book and the Euphonium Source Book. As the conductor of the famed Tennessee Tech Tuba Ensemble, he started promoting jazz tuba performance in an ensemble setting as early as 1967. Morris created the world’s first tuba/euphonium ensemble at Tennessee Tech. The Tennessee Tech Tuba Ensemble has performed under Morris' Direction on Bourbon Street and at the New Orleans Jazz Festival, Disney World, the National MENC Conference in Kansas City, the International T.U.B.A. Conference in Austin, Texas, the Kennedy Center in Washington DC, the Spoleto Festival in Charleston, South Carolina and in Carnegie Hall 7 times, produced 22 commercial recordings, some which have been grammy nominated, and generated more than 600 compositions for the tuba, euphonium and tuba ensemble. R. Winston Morris put together the world’s first Euphonium Choir and organized the first ever recording project for Euphonium Choir.
R. Winston Morris was a student of William Bell (tuba player), tuba player for the John Phillips Sousa Band. Winston was also a member of the Matteson-Phillips Tubajazz Consort with Rich Matteson, Ashley Alexander, John Allred, Buddy Baker on Euphonium, Harvey Phillips & Daniel Perantoni.
Morris also created and now conducts Symphonia, a tuba/euphonium ensemble made up of professional players rather than students. A recent reunion concert billed as Tubas of Mass Destruction, held in 2007 at Tennessee Tech University, included over 100 current and former students from his 40 years of teaching as well as noted musicians Gunther Schuller, Harvey Phillips, Joseph Hermann, and Greg Danner. Throughout his teaching career Morris has encouraged his students to arrange and compose pieces of music for the ensemble, which was necessary in the early days of the group as there was virtually no repertoire in existence for them to play. Beside the pedagogical value, student works account for a large proportion of the ensemble's repertoire and have provided challenging material for later tuba/euphonium groups around the world.
Students
Many of his students have gone on to become professionals and teachers across the country. Professionals with the Morris Tech pedigree include:
- Bill Acuff, Chattanooga Symphony Orchestra (retired), Chattanooga Brass Quintet
- Marcus Arnold, Mr. Jack Daniel's Original Silver Cornet Band
- Scott Beaver, West Point Military Academy Band
- Cory Belvin, U.S. Army Signal Corps Band
- Emelyne Bingham, Vanderbilt University, Nashville Symphony Orchestra, Columbus Women's Orchestra
- Lloyd E. Bone, Jr., Glenville State College
- David Brown, U.S. Army Band "Pershing's Own," The Washington Symphonic Brass, Arlington Symphony, Alexandria Symphony, National Philharmonic
- David Butler, Chattanooga Concert Band, Jericho Brass
- Jason Byrnes, University of Northern Colorado
- Gerald Cates, West Pint Military Academy Band, Chappaqua Orchestra
- Bill Cherry, Arranger
- Jesse Chavez, Synergy Brass Quintet
- Alan Clark, Sumner County Symphony, Nashville Wind Ensemble
- Michael Dunn, University of Colorado at Boulder
- Bryce Edwards, U.S. Navy Band
- Sean Greene, University of the Cumberlands
- Carroll Gotcher, Euphoria, Clarion Brass Quintet
- James N. Houston, Las Vegas Legacy Concert and Jazz Bands
- William Huntley, U.S. Naval Academy Band
- Daryl Johnson, Louisville Orchestra
- Jon Jones, Tallahassee Winds
- Benjamin P. Keen, Broadmoor Baptist Church
- Tim Keyser, North Georgia College and State University
- Susan Lewis, Concord Brass Quintet
- Anders Tøfting Swane Lund, Malmö Opera & Musikteate
- Charles A. McAdams, Northwest Missouri State University
- Ben McMillan, Composer/Arranger
- Charles Paul Menoche, Central Connecticut State University
- Joe Murphy, Cumberland University, LOUD mouthpieces, Modern Jazz Tuba Project, Memphis Sound, Miraphone artist
- Scott Myckowiak, Olivet College, Lansing Concert Band
- Kazuhisa Nishida, Osaka University of Arts
- Joseph Northcut The Church Initiative
- Tim Northcut, Cincinnati Conservatory of Music, Dayton Philharmonic Orchestra
- Michael Brian O'Connor, Palm Beach Atlantic University
- Eric Paull, Austin Peay State University
- Richard Perry, University of Southern Mississippi, Meridian Symphony Orchestra, Modern Jazz Tuba Project
- David Porter, The United States Air Force Concert Band, The McLean Orchestra, Camerata Brass Quintet, The Masterworks Festival
- Jimmie E. Self, East Tennessee State University, Symphony of the Mountains
- Joseph Skillen, Louisiana State University
- Kelly Thomas, University of Arizona
- John Truebger, Eastman School of Music (Chief Audio Engineer)
- Mark Walker, Troy University
- Kenyon Wilson, University of Tennessee at Chattanooga, Augusta Symphony Orchestra (Georgia), Tuscaloosa Symphony Orchestra
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