Michael D. Hart

THOUSAND OAKS, CA - California Lutheran University will present its first faculty tuba recital at 8 p.m. Friday, Jan. 27.

Music instructor Michael D. Hart will play the tuba and lecturer Eric Kinsley will perform on piano at the concert in Samuelson Chapel. The program will feature original works for the tuba as well as transcriptions. Compositions include Paul Hindemith’s landmark work for tuba, Sonata for Bass Tuba and Piano, Bruce Broughton’s Sonata for Tuba and Piano, Mozart’s Horn Concerto No. 4 in E flat major, K. 495, and Bach’s Sonata No. 1 in G major, BWV 1027, which was originally for viola da gamba and harpsichord.

Hart directs CLU’s Wind Ensemble, Chamber Wind Ensemble and Pep Band and teaches theory and low brass. As a tubist, the Thousand Oaks resident has performed with the Fargo-Moorhead Symphony and The University of Iowa Symphony Band. In 2008, he competed at the International Tuba Euphonium Conference Quartet Competition in Cincinnati. Most recently, he appeared as both a tubist and conductor at the 2010 International Tuba Euphonium Conference.

Kinsley, who teaches piano, is a performing artist, writer, and educator who earned a doctorate at the Manhattan School of Music. The Thousand Oaks resident has been a member of Pacific Classical Winds and the Manhattan Chamber Orchestra and has received grants in early and contemporary music from the National Endowment for the Arts, the New York Harpsichord Society and the Sylvia Marlow Foundation.

Donations will be accepted. For more information, call the Music Department at 805-493-3306 or visit http://www.callutheran.edu/music.