Email:

gaarober@iu.edu

Department:

Brass, Euphonium

Gail Robertson is visiting professor of music in euphonium at the Indiana University Jacobs School of Music. She has a distinguished reputation as a euphonium artist and teacher, soloist, and clinician. She has also garnered worldwide attention for leadership, for her work as composer/arranger, and as a musical talent.

Robertson has also served as associate professor of tuba and euphonium, and graduate coordinator at the University of Central Arkansas as well as on the euphonium faculty of the American Band College in Ashland, Oregon. She earned a B.A. degree from the University of Central Florida and an M.M. from Indiana University, with a D.M.A. from Michigan State University, where she was a university distinguished fellow.

Robertson has studied with Harvey Phillips, Phil Sinder, Roy Pickering, and Ava Ordman. She performed for 10 years with the world-famous Tubafours at Walt Disney World, Orlando, where she was musical supervisor/chief arranger and produced the highly acclaimed CD Tubas Under the Boardwalk.

Robertson is past president of the International Tuba and Euphonium Association (ITEA) and past president of the International Women’s Brass Conference (IWBC). She currently is the vice-president of the Athena Brass Band and serves on the board of directors of the Leonard Falcone Tuba and Euphonium Festival, and Wind and Rhythm.

Robertson and Stacy Baker tour and perform as SymbiosisDuo. They have recorded three CDs: SymbiosisDuo, Playground, and Dreams, Dances, and Destinations (2024). This summer, they are featured artists at the International Woman’s Brass Conference in Mito City, Japan.

Robertson is a recipient of Tau Beta Sigma’s highest honor, the Outstanding Service to Music Award. She was awarded the ITEA’s Clifford Bevan Award for Excellence in Research for her research manuscript “Restoring the Euphonium’s Legacy as Cello of the Wind Band.” She has published articles, reviews, and compositions in British Brass Band World, Bandworld, and the ITEA Journal. She recently collaborated with Alfred Music for its Sound Artistry Intermediate Euphonium Method for Euphonium.

This past summer, Robertson served on the faculty of the Rafael Mendez Brass Institute and the Brass Band of Battle Creek Youth Band Camp, and as the euphonium coach at the Brass Chamber Workshop in Arcata, California.

Robertson has toured the United States, Europe, Korea, China, and Japan with various ensembles. She has been a longtime member of the Brass Band of Battle Creek, Keith Brion’s New Sousa Band, and Monarch Brass. She has been a featured soloist at the United States Army Band “Pershing’s Own” Tuba-Euphonium Workshop with the U.S. Army Orchestra.

She has also performed as a featured euphonium soloist at Carnegie Hall with Purdue University’s Wind Ensemble and, most recently, with the Boston Symphony Orchestra for its historical performances of Shostakovich’s Lady MacBeth. She has performed as tenor tubist/tubist/bass trumpet with the Detroit Symphony Orchestra, Sarasota Orchestra, Sarasota Ballet, Arkansas Symphony, and Cincinnati Symphony.

Robertson’s published works and arrangements are performed worldwide and are available through Cimarron Music Press and Wright & Round Music Publishers. As a Willson Euphonium Artist, her euphonium of choice is a Willson 2950TA with a bronze Warburton/Gail Robertson mouthpiece.