- Jay Krush
Jay Krush is a native of the
Philadelphia area whose busy career includes performing, composing, arranging, teaching and conducting.A founding member of the
Grammy Award -winningChestnut Brass Company , he has performed on tuba and historical brasses with that ensemble for twenty five years, touring to forty nine of the U.S. States and to Europe, South America, Asia, Canada and the Caribbean. He can be heard on recordings with the Chesntut Brass Company on the Sony Classical, Naxos, Newport Classic, Polygram, Albany, Musical Heritage Society and Crystal labels.Mr. Krush is also a tubist with the
Pennsylvania Ballet Orchestra and on the faculty of the Boyer College of Music atTemple University where he teaches tuba and euphonium and directs the Contemporary Music Ensemble.As a composer he has written over seventy works, including two symphonies, for a wide variety of media and has received grants and awards from the
National Endowment for the Arts , thePennsylvania Council on the Arts , theAmerican Composers Forum and others.Mr. Krush holds a Bachelors degree in composition from the
Eastman School of Music and a Masters in performance fromNorthwestern University , where he studied with the Chicago Symphony’sArnold Jacobs .
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