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Floyd
Cooley - Tuba Classics
www.FloydCooley.com
Tuba
and Piano arranged
by Floyd Cooley
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Composer |
Title
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MP3
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PDF
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Price |
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Bach |
Partita in A Minor
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$12.00
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Bach |
Sonata
in E Flat
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$18.00
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Schumann
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Adagio
& Allegro
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$18.00
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Schumann
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$18.00
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Schumann
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$18.00
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Schumann
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$20.00
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Vivaldi |
Sonata No 2
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$15.00
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Floyd Cooley Solo
Recordings |
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The Romantic Tuba
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The Romantic Tuba
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$16.98
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A Schumann Fantasy
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A Schumann Fantasy
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$16.98
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Floyd Cooley
Nationally and internationally known tubist Floyd O. Cooley
is one of the most skillful and adventuresome tuba
players currently playing.
He has been heard in recital throughout the
US
, Europe and
Japan
, appearing as soloist, clinician, giving Master
classes, and as a member of the San Francisco
Symphony.
Floyd joined the San Francisco Symphony in 1969, at the
time the youngest tuba player in any major
orchestra in the
United States
. Since
then he has soloed with that orchestra on two
occasions, under the baton of Seiji Ozawa and
Jahja Ling, given recitals in a wide variety of
places, including Carnegie Hall, commissioned
works by Earl Zindars and Richard Felciano and
recorded three solo albums, The Romantic Tuba on
Crystal Records, A Schumann Fantasy on Summit
Records, and Friends in Low Places on Albany
Records. He played the 1992-1993 season with the
Chicago Symphony Orchestra.
As a musician of extremely varied activities and interests,
Floyd founded the San Francisco Tuba Quartet. He
has performed on the Visiting Artist Series in the
Quad Cities of
Iowa
and
Illinois
, where he played in schools and factories to over
fifteen thousand people, and has played with the
49ers Jazz Band and Perry's Turkey Bowl Pep Band.
No matter what the activity, Floyd has been
praised for his sensitive playing, mellow tone and
singing melodic line.
The San Francisco Chronicle wrote "the
sheer beauty of tone and technical accuracy were
amazing. The
effect was operatically vocal."
A performer at the Aspen Festival in the
summers of 1968 and 1969, Floyd has been a
participant at the Grand Teton Music Festival from
1975-2001.
Floyd spent one year at
Kansas
University
and received a Performer's Certificate from
Indiana
University
in 1969. While
at
Indiana
he studied with William Bell, and also has studied
with Mstislav Rostropovich, Jacob Krachmalnick and
Mark Lifschey. He Studied with
Arnold
Jacobs from 1973-1998.
In 2001 after 31 years playing with the SFSO he turned his
career towards teaching.
Prior to leaving the San Francisco Symphony Floyd taught at
the San Francisco Conservatory of Music, Stanford
University and DePaul University. His teaching has
taken him to
New Zealand
,
Australia
,
Japan
and
Europe
. Currently he is teaching at
DePaul
University
where he is the Brass Department Coordinator,
teaching tuba; Brass concepts, pedagogy and
teaching people to teach one on one.
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