 Seth Fletcher, low brass, (Senior Lecturer) recently completed the Doctor of Musical Arts degree in euphonium performance and the Certificate in Music Theory Pedagogy at the University of North Carolina at Greensboro. Prior to joining the faculty at U.N.K, Seth served as founding director for the Manchester Community Band, a community outreach and educational organization in Manchester, TN.
Seth has performed and recorded extensively as a soloist and with several groups, recently performing at Carnegie Hall with the 40th Anniversary Tennessee Tech All-Star Tuba Ensemble in January of 2007. In 2003, he appeared as a featured soloist at Carnegie Hall with the Tennessee Tech Tuba Ensemble, performing his own arrangement of the finale to Vladimir Cosma’s Euphonium Concerto, which he later recorded on the CD Carnegie VI. Additionally, Seth has appeared as soloist with the Tennessee Tech Symphony Band, the Tennessee Tech Orchestra, the Tintwistle Brass Band and the Douglas High School Concert Band. He can be heard on recordings by the Tennessee Tech Symphony Band, the Tennessee Tech Tuba Ensemble, Euphoniums Unlimited, and the Royal Northern College of Music Wind Ensemble.
Also active in promoting new research in brass pedagogy and performance, Seth recently presented talks on focal dystonia at the 2007 Southeast Regional Tuba-Euphonium Conference at Western Carolina University and the 2007 Southwest Regional Tuba-Euphonium Conference at the University of Arizona. As a proponent of the development of euphonium literature, he authored two chapters concerning chamber music in The Euphonium Source Book, available from Indiana University Press.
Seth holds a Master of Music degree in performance from the Royal Northern College of Music in Manchester, England and a Bachelor of Music in instrumental music education from Tennessee Technological University. His teachers include Dennis AsKew, Steven Mead, and R. Winston Morris.
 email: fletchersd@unk.edu
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