Aaron Tindall

With his orchestral playing praised as “a rock-solid foundation” and his solo playing described as being “remarkable for both its solid power and its delicacy,” Aaron Tindall is the professor of tuba and euphonium at the Frost School of Music – University of Miami, the principal tubist of the Naples Philharmonic, and the tuba professor at The Colburn School in Los Angeles, California. In the summers, he teaches and performs at the Festival Napa Valley in Napa, California and at the Eastern Music Festival in Greensboro, North Carolina, where he also serves as principal tuba with the EFM Festival Orchestra under the direction of Gerard Schwarz.

Aaron has previously served as the principal tubist of the Sarasota Orchestra, the acting principal tubist of the Iceland Symphony Orchestra, held the principal tuba position with the Aspen Festival Orchestra where he was an orchestral fellow and has collaborated as guest tubist with orchestras such as the Los Angeles Philharmonic, Chicago Symphony Orchestra Brass, Teatro alla Scala Opera and Ballet Orchestra, Milan, Italy, Melbourne Symphony Orchestra, Australia, Baltimore Symphony Orchestra, Cincinnati Symphony Orchestra, Colorado Symphony Orchestra, The Florida Orchestra, National Symphony Orchestra-Kennedy Center, New Jersey Symphony Orchestra, New World Symphony, Rochester Philharmonic Orchestra and the Utah Symphony.

He is a frequent soloist, guest artist/clinician and orchestral tubist throughout the United States, Europe and Asia. He has been featured at a majority of the International Tuba and Euphonium conferences since 2006, performed in England with the National Champion Grimethorpe Colliery Brass Band and his solo playing has been heard on NPR’s Performance Today radio show.

Aaron has been a prizewinner of many competitions (solo and chamber) across the world. He has also been a two-time finalist in the prestigious Concert Artist Guild Competition, and released four highly acclaimed solo recordings — Yellowbird (solo tuba and jazz piano trio), Transformations (winner of the International Tuba Euphonium Association’s Roger Bobo Excellence in Recording award and winner of two 2017 Global Music Awards), This is My House… (awarded two 2015 Global Music Awards) and Songs of Ascent.

Many of his students have obtained prestigious principal positions with the top professional orchestras in the U.S. and Canada, and also in the premier military bands of Washington, D.C., West Point, and the U.S. Coast Guard. They are also frequent prizewinners at various national and international solo and chamber music competitions.

Aaron is an International Yamaha Performing Artist and a Denis Wick – London artist and design specialist, having designed their complete Ultra Range AT signature series tuba mouthpieces.