Dr. Kevin Fenske is the Professor of Practice in Euphonium at the University of Houston where he teaches applied lessons and brass chamber music at the Moores School of Music. Additionally, he serves as the Director and Founder of the Texas Low Brass Academy, a summer music camp and educational series for young low brass musicians established in 2019.
As a performer, he has won prizes at various solo and chamber competitions, including the Leonard Falcone International Euphonium and Tuba Festival, International Tuba-Euphonium Conference, The U.S. Army Band “Pershing’s Own” Tuba-Euphonium Workshop, International Women’s Brass Conference, and the Briggs Chamber Music Competition, among others. He has performed as a guest with groups such as the Houston Symphony, Austin Symphony Orchestra, Brno Philharmonic, Akron Symphony Orchestra, and the Texas Music Festival Orchestra. He is a founding member of the Honseo Quartet and A2ba Quartet, and a regular member of the Backburner Tuba and Euphonium Collective. An advocate of new music, he has both commissioned and premiered works by Kevin Day, Alex Shapiro, Gala Flagello, Drew Bonner, Fernando Deddos, Benjamin Horne, Zoe Cutler, and Jose Flores. Fenske has been an invited guest performer, clinician, and adjudicator at universities and events around the country including the United States Army Band “Pershing’s Own” Tuba-Euphonium Workshop, Midwest Regional Tuba Euphonium Conference, National Band Association, Texas Music Educators Association, and the UIL Texas State Solo & Ensemble Contest.
He holds degrees from the University of Michigan, University of Texas at Austin, and the University of Houston in performance, chamber music, and music education. His primary teachers include David Zerkel, Charles Villarrubia, and Danny Vinson.
Kevin Fenske is a Willson Performing Artist.
Program:
Golden Hour by Cait Nishimura,
Two Songs by Anthony Plog,
Limitless by Katahj Copley (Dr. Genevieve Clarkson, tuba)
