The Brass Junkies 79: Adam Frey

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Adam Frey is a phenomenal euphonium player and runs the International Euphonium Tuba Conference every year in Atlanta. Lance and I have known Adam for a very long time, especially Lance, so we had a good time with this one.

From the show notes:

Adam Frey has had a great career as a soloist, publisher, teacher and major proponent of the euphonium and has endured Lance's hump-busting for over twenty years.

He is also the mastermind behind both the fantastic International Euphonium-Tuba (IET) Festival and euphonium.com. He currently teaches at the University of North Georgia.

In this fun and lively conversation, we cover:

• Euphonium jokes
• How Adam and Lance met in the Brass Band of Battle Creek
• Tales of the Badger (dearly departed mega friend, Chris Matten)
• Meeting James Gourlay
• Teaching at the University of North Georgia
• Playing in Macau
• IET Festival, 15th anniversary in the summer of 2018
• How he started the festival and how it is organized
• The importance of good coffee when running a festival
• Being an ambassador of the euphonium and the Ambassador of Euphonium
• Fernando Deddos, David Childs, and other influential current players
• Creating opportunities and the importance of collaboration
• Working with Patricio Cosentino, Scott Hartman, and Jeff Nelsen
• Having good ideas vs. having good ideas and acting on them
• Starting and running euphonium.com

You can check out the complete show notes including all of the links mentioned during this episode over at Pedal Note Media.