Dr. Zach Collins is professor of Tuba and Euphonium at Indiana University of Pennsylvania. At IUP, Zach teaches applied lessons to all tuba and euphonium majors, leads the IUP Tubaphonium Ensemble, and teaches classes in music technology. In 2019, he released his first solo album, Chronicle. Chronicle was recognized with the 2021 International Tuba and Euphonium Association Roger Bobo Award for Excellence in Recording for the best Solo Tuba Album. 

Zach performs with Eastern Standard, a horn, tuba, piano trio he formed with Heidi Lucas and Jacob Ertl. Eastern Standard aims to commission and record new works for this unique instrumentation. To date, the ensemble has released two commercial albums, Eastern

Standard and Wanderlust. Wanderlust was named a finalist in the Chamber Music Category of the 2021 ITEA Roger Bobo Award for Excellence in Recording. In addition to Eastern Standard, he regularly performs with the Keystone Wind Ensemble, Keystone Chamber Winds, Altoona Symphony Orchestra, and West Virginia Symphony Orchestras.

In 2020, Zach was named the Dean's Outstanding Researcher for the Indiana University of Pennsylvania College of Fine Arts. In 2015 he received theDistinguished Faculty Award for Creative Arts by IUP. In 2014 he was named a National Arts Associate by Sigma Alpha Iota music fraternity.

In addition to his position at IUP, Zach also maintains a busy solo and chamber schedule. He has performed as a soloist or chamber musician at the International Tuba and Euphonium Conference (2008, 2010, 2014, 2016), International Euphonium and Tuba Festival (2018), Northeast Regional Tuba Euphonium Conference (2011, 2013, 2015, 2017), US Army Band Tuba-Euphonium Conference (2010), and Western PASSHE Low Brass Consortium (2010). Recent solo and chamber engagements have taken him to Ohio, West Virginia, Washington, DC, New York, Texas, and Moscow, Russia. His interpretation of William Kraft's Encounters II for Solo Tuba was released on Cambria Master Recordings in August 2009.
Zach has written a number of works for brass instruments. His compositions and arrangements for tuba and euphonium can be purchased from Cimarron Music and Eighth Note Publications. Beginning in summer 2015 he began publishing a series of duets with scrolling music notation to YouTube. They can be found on the Bass Clef Duets web page.

Prior to his appointment at IUP, Zach had numerous freelance performing opportunities in Texas and California. He has performed with ensembles such as the Los Angeles Philharmonic, Pacific Symphony, Festival Orchestra of the San Luis Obispo Mozart Festival, Riverside County Philharmonic, Santa Barbara Symphony, Monterey Symphony, Texas Chamber Orchestra, and the Texas Wind Symphony. In these ensembles Zach has performed under the baton of conductors such as Bramwell Tovey, Esa-Pekka Salonen, and Helmuth Rilling. In Los Angeles Zach performed on several motion pictures, including Spider-Man 3, Pirates of the Caribbean: At World's End, X-Men 3, Bobby, Next, Rocky Balboa, and Live Free or Die Hard. In 2007 he performed with the band Korn on The Tonight Show with Jay Leno. Zach Collins earned his bachelor of music in tuba performance from Texas Christian University (2003) and his master of music (2005) and doctor of music (2007) in tuba performance from the University of Southern California. While at TCU, Zach's primary studies were with Richard Murrow, a freelance musician in the Dallas/Fort Worth area. At USC his teachers were Jim Self and Tommy Johnson, both studio musicians, and Norm Pearson, principal tubist of the Los Angeles Philharmonic.

Zach Collins is a Miraphone artist and performs on the Miraphone Elektra F Tuba.

Dr. James M. Green serves on the music faculty of Ohio Northern University where his primary duties include teaching applied tuba, euphonium, and bass trombone, conducting student brass ensembles, and performing in the faculty brass quintet, Polaris Brass. He concurrently serves as Adjunct Professor of Low Brass at Ohio Christian University. Additionally, he maintains a sizeable private low brass studio in central Ohio.
Dr. Green also serves as the Research Abstracts Database Coordinator for the International Tuba Euphonium Association.

As a tuba soloist, Dr. Green has performed at several universities, including the University of Oklahoma, Texas State University, Abilene Christian University, SUNY Fredonia, Edinboro University, and the Eastman School of Music. He has performed at several conferences, including the Midwest Regional Tuba Euphonium Conference, the Southeastern Regional Tuba Euphonium Conference, and the South Central Regional Tuba Euphonium Conference. He was also a guest soloist with the Greater Columbus Concert Band as part of the Park of Roses Summer Concert series.

As a proponent of new compositions and arrangements for the tuba, Dr. Green recently led a consortium of tubists to commission Ben McMillan’s Tomes of Redemption for tuba and fixed electronics. Dr. Green has also participated in consortiums and premieres of music of Todd Goodman, James Grant, Frank Gulino, Brooke Pierson, and Timothy Olt. Dr. Green frequently reviews new works in the “New Materials” section of the International Tuba Euphonium Association Journal, and has his arrangements published through Cimarron Music Press.

As an orchestral musician, he has performed with the Lima Symphony Orchestra, Clermont Philharmonic Orchestra, Newark Granville Symphony Orchestra, and is a substitute/extra tubist for the Columbus Symphony Orchestra and Springfield (OH) Symphony. As a chamber musician, Dr. Green has performed with several groups including the Queen City Brass Quintet, St. Joseph’s Catholic Church brass ensemble, and the Nasty-Nati Brass Band. He has participated in the Atlantic Brass Seminar, the ITEC All-Star Jazz Ensemble, and was a semifinalist in the ITEC Military Band competition.

One of Dr. Green’s research focuses is on the use of the tuba in Russia. His doctoral document “ The History and Usage of the Tuba in Russia” was selected as a finalist for the Clifford Bevan Research award. He plans on doing further research on this topic in Russia. In addition, he has recently started a personal endeavor in healthier living utilizing weight loss and exercise and how it effects brass playing.

He received a Doctor of Musical Arts in tuba performance from The Ohio State University, a Master of Music in tuba performance from Miami University, and a Bachelor of Arts in Music, summa cum laude, from Abilene Christian University. His primary instructors include Roger Rocco, James Akins, and Dr. Jeffrey Cottrell with additional individualized studies from Sam Pilafian, Don Harry, Anthony Kniffen, and John Manning.

Dr. Jonathan Helmick serves as Director of Bands and Associate Professor of Music at Slippery Rock University. Part of his responsibilities include directing the Slippery Rock University “Marching Pride”, the Symphonic Wind Ensemble, Concert Band, and the Tuba and Euphonium Ensemble. He also teaches assigned courses such as Fundamentals of Conducting, Low Brass Methods, Marching Band Field Charting, Instrumental Rehearsal Techniques, and Applied Euphonium. Under his direction, the Slippery Rock University Wind Ensemble has achieved national acclaim having been named a finalist for the prestigious American Prize in Wind Ensemble and Concert Band Performance (college/university division). In 2019, the two-hundred-member Slippery Rock University Marching Pride was invited to perform in Ireland at the Dublin St. Patrick’s Festival Parade and the Limerick International Band Championship. During these internationally televised performances the ensemble received the honor of being named Best Overall Band, Best Adult Band, and Best International Band. 
 
Dr. Helmick holds the Doctor of Musical Arts Degree in Conducting from The University of Southern Mississippi. He earned a Master of Music degree in Euphonium Performance with a cognate area in Music Theory from The University of Akron in Akron, Ohio. Both his Bachelor of Music in Music Education degree and Bachelor of Arts in Business and Organizational Communications degrees were received from the University of Akron with honors. Prior to his college teaching career, Dr. Helmick taught in the public schools of Ohio and Mississippi. He has also served as Assistant Conductor and member of the Board of Trustees for the Freedom Brass Band of Northeast Ohio and performed as a member of the Brass Band of the Western Reserve on both euphonium and baritone.  
Active as a musician and educator, Dr. Helmick has served as a guest clinician, artist, and adjudicator in Florida, Idaho, Illinois, Indiana, Michigan, Mississippi, New Mexico, Ohio, Pennsylvania, Tennessee, Texas, Virginia, Austria, the Czech Republic, Italy, and Sicily. At Slippery Rock University, he has earned the honor of being named recipient of the 2017-2018 President’s Award for Excellence in Teaching. In 2019, he was honored to receive the Citation of Excellence from the Pennsylvania Music Educators Association, representing District 5.  
 

Before settling in Los Angeles, Dr. Beth Chouinard-Mitchell was principal tubist with the Women’s Philharmonic Orchestra in San Francisco, and the Orchesta Sinfonica de Monterrey in Nueva Leon, Mexico.  She has played with the Baltimore Symphony Orchestra, the Pacific Symphony Orchestra, Opera Pacific, Germany’s Eurobrass, has appeared as a guest soloist with the United States Army Band, and has toured frequently throughout the United States, Europe, and the Middle East.
Locally, Ms. Mitchell enjoys an active freelance career in Los Angeles.  She  is a subbing member of the Disneyland Band, has worked with the Los Angeles Philharmonic, and Orange County Philharmonic Societies, the Los Angeles Zipper Orchestra, and many other arts groups giving concerts, masterclasses and numerous solo and chamber recitals around southern California.
Internationally, Beth is an acclaimed international solo recital artist, who regularly giving solo performances, playing chamber recitals, and teaching masterclasses around the world.  Beth studied tuba at the Peabody Conservatory of Music in Baltimore and The University of Southern California in Los Angeles.  Her principal teachers have been David Fedderly, Tommy Johnson, Jim Self, and Roger Bobo
She is currently on the faculties of Pasadena City College, and Biola University.  Additionally, Ms. Mitchell works with Eastman Winds on tuba development, and is a Eastman International Performing Artist and Clinician.

For more information on Dr. Beth Chouinard-Mitchell please visit her website!

Kent Nelson, DMA,  Has performed as extra trombonist with the Utah Symphony and was the principal trombone of Ballet West for twenty seasons. He served as an instrumental music teacher at Olympus Junior High School near Salt Lake City, Utah for over 25 years while also teaching as Adjunct Instructor of Music at Weber State University in Ogden, Utah. His teaching duties included band, orchestra, percussion, jazz band, and guitar. He is Music Director/conductor of the school district’s youth symphony and as well as the Davis County Celebration Orchestra. The Granite School District Excel Award (2007), the Utah PTA Gingerbread House Festival Teacher of the Year Award (2006), and the Fulbright Memorial Fund (Japan, 2004) are honors he has received for his teaching. Kent received his doctorate from Boston University (2014) in music education. His dissertation topic was on music and dyslexia. He has presented on this issue at the first two ISQRMM conferences in Utah and Georgia. An article, coauthored with Dr. Ryan Hourigan of Ball State University, has been accepted for publication in a forthcoming issue of UPDATE: Applications of Research in Music Education.

Dr. Allen Parrish is from Panama City, Florida and is the Director of Athletic Bands and Assistant Professor of Music at The University of Louisiana Monroe. Previously, he was Instructor of Low Brass at Jones College. He holds a B.M. in Music Education from Troy University, a M. Mus. in Tuba Performance from Pittsburg State University, and a D.M.A. in Tuba Performance and Pedagogy from The University of Southern Mississippi.
Dr. Parrish serves as the Director of the “Sound of Today” marching band at ULM where he also conducts the Symphonic and Concert Bands. In addition to his duties directing ensembles, Parrish also teaches private tuba and several courses within the School of Visual and Performing Arts.
Parrish’s educational philosophy is centered around the student experience. Students should enjoy their collegiate music experience. Involvement with a college band program also provides excellent opportunities for students to develop discipline, people-skills, and leadership. In addition to his expertise in band leadership, Dr. Parrish is an active performer, having recently performed with the faculty brass quintet at ULM (The Lagniappe Brass), the Louisiana Philharmonic Brass Quintet, the Meridian Symphony Orchestra, the Village Brass Band, and the Mid-America Tuba Quartet. He was invited by Barbara York – a renowned composer – to perform her Four Paintings by Grant Wood in a concert featuring her music. Allen Parrish has several compositions published by Cimarron Music His works have been performed at International Tuba and Euphonium Association (ITEA) conferences in Greeley, Colorado and Canyon, Texas. One of his tuba quartets has been reviewed for an upcoming edition of the ITEA Journal.
Please visit Dr. Parrish's website!

Member of the MJT Project Dr. Richard Perry, a Mirafone artist, is currently Assistant Professor of Tuba and Euphonium at the University of Southern Mississippi in Hattiesburg, Mississippi. He holds degrees from Tennessee Tech University (BS), the University of Illinois (MM), and the University of Wisconsin-Madison (DMA), and was formerly on the faculties of the University of Montevallo and Birmingham-Southern College.
Richard's earliest jazz experience came through composing, arranging, and soloing with the internationally acclaimed Tennessee Tech Tuba Ensemble, performing with them at such venues as the New Orleans Jazz and Heritage Festival, Blues Harbor in Atlanta, and Preservation Hall in New Orleans. While at Tech, he was also a finalist in the 1986 International Jazz Improvisation Competition held at the International Tuba Euphonium Conference in Austin, Texas. Richard was also a member of the Madison Jazz Orchestra, a big band, and Trio Gristle, an avant-garde group. He has accompanied such musicians as Louie Bellson, Dominic Spera, Arturo Sandoval, and Ray Charles, and sat in with the Dukes of Dixieland while on tour in New Orleans. He was one of the contributors to Tubalogy 601, a jazz recording project done by the Tennessee Tech Alumni Tuba Ensemble.