Roger Bobo

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

Live and act

Bobo received his bachelor's degree from the Eastman School of Music and played in the Rochester Philharmonic Orchestra from 1956 to 1962 under the direction of Erich Leinsdorf ; then from 1962 to 1964 he was employed in the Concertgebouw Orchestra under Bernard Haitink . He was then a member of the Los Angeles Philharmonic Orchestra for 25 years ; During this time he worked under Zubin Mehta , Carlo Maria Giulini and André Previn . As a session musician, he also played on recordings by 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 others the Meridian Arts Ensemble (Smart Went Crazy) and the Los Angeles Brass Quintet. He also worked on the soundtrack of the Steven Spielberg film Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom (1984).

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

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

As a music teacher he worked at the music school in Fiesole , at the music conservatories in Lausanne and Rotterdam , and at the Royal Northern College of Music in Manchester . Bobo now lives in Japan and teaches at the Musashino School of Music in Tokyo . To his students pay u. a. Øystein Baadsvik , Michel Godard , Markus Hötzel , Roland Fröscher and Christian Lindberg . He is the author of the textbook Mastering the Tuba (Editions Bim).

Alexander Arutiunian dedicated his 1992 Concerto for Tuba and Symphony Orchestra in 3 Movements to Bobo . The International Tuba Euphonium Association annually announces the Roger Bobo Awards For Excellence in Recording .

Discographic 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)

Web links

• Roger Bobo at Allmusic (English)
• Portrait at Crystal Records
• Roger Bobo at Discogs (English)

Individual evidence

1. ^ Roger Bobo Awards For Excellence in Recording