Encore Wind Ensemble
Dr. Peter Haberman, Conductor
Selections Include:
Manhattan Beach - John Philip Sousa
Shenandoah - Frank Ticheli
Sparkle - Shafer Mahoney
Deep River - Ben Horne
Spoon River - Percy Grainger
The Engulfed Cathedral - Claude Debussy
Reflections on the Mississippi - Michael Daugherty
Tuba Soloist - Steve Campbell
Peter Haberman, Director of Bands at Concordia College Moorhead, is a conductor and educator who serves as the director of bands and professor of music at Concordia College where he is the conductor of The Concordia Band.
Steve Campbell, principal tuba of the Minnesota Orchestra since 2005, is a native of Brenham, Texas. Steve became interested in music at an early age, as both of his parents are musicians. His father, also a tuba player, was his first teacher. Campbell went on to study at the University of Houston with David Kirk of the Houston Symphony and completed his Bachelor of Music degree at the New England Conservatory of Music in Boston where he studied with Chester Schmitz, formerly of the Boston Symphony.
While in Boston, Steve performed and toured regularly with the Boston Symphony and Pops Orchestras and was principal tuba of the Rhode Island and Vermont Symphonies. Steve then went on to join the Orquesta Sinfonica de Galicia as principal tuba, in La Coruna, Spain. After two years in Spain, Campbell was invited to join the fellowship program with the New World Symphony in Miami Beach. After one year in Miami, Steve moved on to the New Mexico Symphony where he was principal tuba for four years. During his tenure in New Mexico, Campbell also performed with the Seattle and Colorado Symphonies and the Seattle Opera. Steve moved to Minneapolis from Milwaukee where he fulfilled a one-year engagement as principal tuba with the Milwaukee Symphony. He has also performed with the Philadelphia Orchestra, New York Philharmonic, Chicago Symphony, Cleveland Orchestra, and Houston Symphony.
Campbell has participated in many music festivals and chamber ensembles, including the Tanglewood Music Center, National Repertoire Orchestra, Spoleto USA, Moab Music Festival the Boston Modern Orchestra Project, and the Empire Brass Quintet.
Campbell is also an educator. He is on the faculty of the University of Minnesota and has given master classes and lectures in the U.S. and abroad. He lives in Minneapolis with his wife, Michelle, and their sons, Rowen and Leo.
