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Biography
Philip Bramwell Catelinet was born in Guernsey in
the United Kingdom in 1910. At a young age, he was
immersed in music and grew to be an accomplished
pianist, composer, arranger, euphoniumist, and
tubist. Catelinet was a dedicated Salvation Army
member and occupied a number of positions for the
Army during his life including becoming an officer
and working in the Music Editorial Department,
bandmaster at Battersea, euphoniumist with the
International Staff Band, and later as a music
consultant to the Salvation Army in Pittsburgh,
PA. As a tubist, his name is synonymous with the
world premiere of the Vaughn Williams
Tuba
Concerto with the London Symphony Orchestra
in 1954. As a composer, Catelinet amassed a large
body of repertoire including 15 orchestral works,
30+ works for wind band, 50+ works for brass band,
a vast number of arrangements and compositions for
brass soloists and brass chamber groups, and an
astounding 200+ works for the Salvation Army. He
and his family immigrated to the US in 1956 to the
Pittsburgh area and one of his last teaching posts
was at Carnegie Mellon University. Philip
Catelinet died in 1995 and on a personal level was
known as a kind and gentle man.
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