Jay Krush
Tubist and composer Jay Krush is Artist-in-Residence in tuba and euphonium at the Boyer College of Music at Temple University. He is a founding member of the Grammy Award-winning Chestnut Brass Company and has performed with them on both modern and historic instruments on 14 recordings and on tours through all 50 states, and in Europe, South and Central America and Asia.
He is also a tubist with the Philadelphia Ballet Orchestra. As a composer he has written over 80 works including symphonies, concerti, music for orchestra, for wind ensemble, and chamber and choral music. His work as an arranger includes scores for the Philadelphia Ballet, the Royal Ballet of Flanders, and dozens of arrangements for the Chestnut Brass Company.
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He was one of the most famous musicians in the United States in the first half of the 19th century. But Francis Johnson, a Black, native-born Philadelphian, was almost swallowed by history. Here's how it happened, and how it's being redressed.
