Dr. Thomas Lukowicz
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Associate Professor of Low Brass
Dr. Thomas Lukowicz is the Assosiate Professor of Low Brass at the Ä¢¹½Ä¢¹½, Tuba-Artist Faculty at the Tennessee Valley Music Festival, and has held the Principal Tuba position of the since 2007. Additional performance appearances include the Cincinnati Symphony, Glimmerglass Opera Orchestra, Louisville Orchestra, Pittsburgh Symphony Orchestra, Pittsburgh Symphony Brass, the Chamber Orchestra of New York, the Naples Philharmonic, and the New World Symphony. In 2001-2002, he was a member of the North American touring cast of Blast!.
Prior to his position at UNA, he was on the faculty of Wright State Ä¢¹½Ä¢¹½, Kent State Ä¢¹½Ä¢¹½ and Notre Dame College. He has also served as an instructor at Carnegie Mellon Ä¢¹½Ä¢¹½, Riverside Community College, and the Oberlin Conservatory. He has led masterclasses or performed guest recitals at Rutgers Ä¢¹½Ä¢¹½, Illinois State Ä¢¹½Ä¢¹½, Ä¢¹½Ä¢¹½ of Akron, Bowling Green Ä¢¹½Ä¢¹½, Carnegie Mellon Ä¢¹½Ä¢¹½, Indiana Ä¢¹½Ä¢¹½ of Pennsylvania, Ithaca College and Columbus State Ä¢¹½Ä¢¹½. He has presented or performed at numerous Midwest, Southeast, Northeast and International Tuba Euphonium Conferences.
Dr. Lukowicz has recorded with the Chamber Orchestra of New York on two CDs, “Ottorino Respighi” and “Salvatore Di Vittorio.” Both recordings contain world premiers and “Ottorino Respighi” has spent weeks on the Gramophone Top 20 Classical Chart. He can also be heard on the Pittsburgh Symphony Brass recording “A Song of Christmas,” available from Four Winds Entertainment.
He earned his doctorate at Michigan State Ä¢¹½Ä¢¹½, where he served as the Teaching Assistant for the studio. Additional studies include Carnegie Mellon Ä¢¹½Ä¢¹½ (AD), Ä¢¹½Ä¢¹½ of Southern California (MM), and the Oberlin Conservatory of Music (BM). He has studied privately with Phil Sinder, Craig Knox, Murray Crewe, Norm Pearson, Tommy Johnson, Chester Schmitz, Wesley Jacobs, James DeSano, and Roy Poper.