Joshua Johnson, Co-Founder and Director of SALBI, is originally from San Antonio, TX, where he maintains a full low brass studio. He is currently a lessons instructor with Comal, New Braunfels, and Northeast ISD. Joshua is a graduate of Texas Lutheran University with degrees in Music Education and Tuba Performance. He was a multi-year member of the TLU Wind Ensemble, helped in the formation of many small ensembles, and was a student leader. He is excited to be one of the directors and instructors of San Antonio’s first low brass camp, and to bring this amazing opportunity to the students!
A native of Howard County, Maryland, Co-founder of SALBI and Chief Curriculum Officer, Sam Baronowsky is known for his versatility and enthusiasm for performing in a variety of ensembles and styles. As a member of the Parkway Brass Quintet and an active freelancer, he can be heard all across the Washington DC and Baltimore region.
Sam is extremely passionate about developing the next generation of musicians, and is looking forward to bringing his experience to the low brass students of San Antonio. His private students fill the ranks of honors ensembles and youth orchestras at every level, and many have been admitted to prestigious summer programs, world-class drum corps, and collegiate music schools across the country. In addition to his large private studio, Sam frequently presents professional development sessions, masterclasses, and low brass clinics in schools throughout the region and has also been on the instructional staff for area marching bands at both the high school and collegiate level for over a decade.
Sam graduated from Northwestern University in 2014, studying primarily with Rex Martin. While there, he was a member of the symphonic Wind Ensemble under Mallory Thompson and can be heard on their CD entitled Rising.
This Grammy nominated music educator juggles, reads, runs, composes, sings in the shower, smiles and laughs a lot in Seguin, Texas. Since 2000, Keith Robinson, dubbed Grand Pooh-Bah of SALBI, has loved his wife Nelwyn very much. And since 2003, they have loved their daughter Jillian very much: a beautiful busy gift from God, brought to them from India as a toddler.
Born in Michigan, transplanted to the Lone Star state, Keith attended high school and college in Kingsville, Texas, graduating from Texas A&I University in 1985. In 2008, he received his Master’s degree from Texas State University. He has taught all levels of music, ranging from pre-kinder to college to octogenarians, teaching elementary music and directing choirs and bands. He currently teaches in the Seguin Independent School District at Jefferson Avenue Elementary School, directs the Choir at First Methodist Church, Seguin, and, since 2005, he has taught at Texas Lutheran University. His teaching responsibilities at TLU include Tuba Lessons, Elementary Music Methods, and Music for the Child.
Keith was introduced to his first tuba by Roger Lund in Ann Arbor, Michigan in the 7th grade Cadet Band. From his public school band beginnings, he has gone on to become an active professional tubist, educator, and motivational clinician, performing in Texas, Mexico, Oklahoma, Louisiana, New Mexico, Las Vegas, Michigan, the Pacific Northwest, and the Azores Islands. He has performed with the Air Force Band of the West, the San Antonio Symphony, the San Antonio Brass, the San Antonio Festival Orchestra, the 49th Armored Division Band, the Laredo Philharmonic, the Laredo Brass Quintet, the Blue Lake Fine Arts Band, and the Corpus Christi Wind Symphony, (Charter Member). Currently, Keith performs freelance work and holds the position of tubist with Hill Country Brass.
His teachers include Joseph Blaha, Paul M. Hageman, Michael Sanders, Lee Hipp, and Steven Bryant. He has also studied with Sam Pilafian, Warren Deck, David Kirk and Pat Sheridan. Keith has designed and launched http://www.tuba4u.com, a web site providing creative, challenging, fun, free tuba music for tubists around the planet.
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