Samuel McHenry currently attends the University of Florida where he is pursuing a Doctor of Musical Arts degree in Tuba Performance. He holds a Master of Music degree in Euphonium Performance from the University of Central Arkansas and a Bachelor of Arts in Music from Troy University. His primary instructors have included Dr. Robert Pendergast, Dr. Jason Sulliman, Dr. Gail Robertson, and Dr. Danielle VanTuinen. His accolades include earning First in the Baritone/Euphonium Technical Division of the NABBA Solo Championships, Second in the IWBC Ginger Turner Ensemble Competition as a member of the Varsity Tuba Quartet, Bronze in the Artist Euphonium division of the 2023 Leonard Falcone International Euphonium and Tuba Festival Competition, and semifinals of the 2023 ITEA Tuba/Euphonium Small Ensemble Competition as a member of the Incanto Euphonium Quartet as well as the 2021 Wessex Tubas Player Competition. His lecture titled ““The Most Perfect Instrument Manufactured:” An Examination of Double-Bell Euphonium Marketing” was presented at the 2024 South-Central and South-East Regional Tuba Euphonium Conferences, and his new music review of Ralph Sauer’s arrangement of “Three Folksongs from the County Csík” for euphonium and piano was published in the ITEA Journal and can be found in Volume 51, No. 2. He currently lives in Ocala, Florida with his wife Holley and their three cats, Gully, Opal, and Bagel.
Trumpet Repertoire Reimagined for Tuba and Euphonium
Concertino | Henri Senée (1853–1910)
I Introduction
II Romance
III Ballet
Samuel McHenry, Euphonium
Conference Accompanist, Piano
Concertpiece No. 2 | Vassily Brandt (1869–1923) arr. John Glenesk Mortimer (b. 1951)
