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Raul Rodriquez

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Meet Raul Rodriguez

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Raul Rodriguez
ASSOCIATE PROFESSOR
School of Music
College of Fine Arts and Communication
512.245.3843
rr13@txstate.edu 

Areas of Interest: Brass Pedagogy, Tuba, Euphonium, Chamber Music, Music Performance, Education 

Appointed in 1995, Raul Rodriguez is Associate Professor of Music at Texas State University teaching applied tuba and euphonium and working with chamber music ensembles. Since 2001 he has performed as principal tuba with the Breckenridge Music Festival Orchestra in Colorado and has performed with the symphony orchestras of Austin, San Antonio, Santa Fe, Ft. Worth and the Victoria Bach Festival, in addition to serving as principal tuba with the symphonies of Garland and Las Colinas from 1992-95. Other performance credits are quite diverse having performed with a variety of chamber ensembles, rodeo bands, polka bands and many brass quintets including the SouthWest BrassWorks, Breckenridge Brass plus the tubajazz combo TubaTzars. His book, Low Blows for Tuba, released in April 2015, is published by and available at Balquhidder Music. 

He still continues his involvement in youth education by dedicating time to presenting clinics and master classes in the public schools. In the summer of 2002 Mr. Rodriguez was appointed principal tuba of the Texas Philharmonic to record the soundtrack for the musical score Spy Kids 2: The Island of Lost Dreams.