Tuba & Euphonium Institute

David Zerkel is Professor of Tuba and Euphonium at the University of Michigan, leading an active career as both a performer and educator. Before his arrival at Michigan, he taught in a similar position at the University of Georgia. His students have distinguished themselves by winning international and national competitions and attaining positions with professional performing organizations. He is a Past President of the International Tuba Euphonium Association and was selected as the inaugural recipient of the ITEA Teaching Award.

David began his performing career as a member of the United States Army Field Band and The United States Army Band, both located in Washington, DC. He has had the good fortune to perform with many orchestras and brass ensembles through the course of his career.

David has performed as a featured soloist at many workshops and symposia, including the Leonard Falcone Festival, several International Tuba Euphonium Conferences, and the United States Army Band Tuba Euphonium Workshop. In addition, he has performed as a solo recitalist at many of the leading colleges and conservatories in the United States. He has released three solo CDs: American Music for Tuba, Tuba Helper, and his latest CD, Journey, which features the music of John Stevens.

David has served as the President of the International Tuba Euphonium Association. His summer teaching activities include a position at the Interlochen Arts Camp. He lives in Dexter, Michigan with his lovely bride, Kristin.

Mike Dunn joined the faculty at the University of Colorado at Boulder as Assistant Professor of Tuba and Euphonium in the fall of 2005. Prior to assuming his position at Colorado, Mr. Dunn served on the faculty at the University of Alabama for eleven years. He has also held adjunct faculty positions at The University of Alabama at Birmingham, Samford University and Shelton State Community College in Alabama. He holds degrees in Music Education from Tennessee Technological University and Music Performance from Arizona State University where his primary teachers were R. Winston Morris and Daniel Perantoni. Mike began his performance career with “The President’s Own” U.S. Marine Band in Washington D.C. from 1984-1989. He played for three seasons with the Alabama Symphony and toured nationally with Mr. Jack Daniel’s Original Silver Cornet Band. He has performed with such organizations as the Colorado Symphony, Colorado Ballet and Opera Colorado, the National Symphony Orchestra, the Kennedy Center Opera Orchestra, the Arizona Opera Orchestra and the Maryland Symphony as well as the St. Louis Brass Quintet and Dallas Brass. His performing opportunities have taken him throughout the United States, Ecuador, France, Russia and Belgium. Mr. Dunn’s many students populate orchestras, military bands, college-university positions, and numerous public school music programs across the United States and abroad.

Mike can be heard on several recording labels including Summit Records, Crescendo Records, Mark Records, Intrada and Silver Cornet Productions, Inc. Outside his musical responsibilities Mike enjoys adventures with his wife Jennifer and daughters Anna, Emily and Laurel.