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Music Director
TONY
GRANADOS serves as theTriangle Brass Band Music Director.
Tony is a freelance tuba player in the Central North Carolina
region, Tony serves as a substitute and extra with the North Carolina
Symphony, and has made recent appearances with the North Carolina
Symphony Brass Quintet, the Carolina Brass Quintet, Carolina
Ballet, Opera Company of North Carolina, and the Roanoke Symphony
in Virginia. In addition to these guest appearances, he serves
as a member of the Tar River Orchestra and the Tar River Concert
Band. As a soloist, he has made appearances with college bands,
high schools bands, all-county bands, gave a solo recital at
the North Carolina Governors School Summer Program at Meredith College,
and was a featured artist at the 2002 International Tuba Euphonium Conference,
performing the Gregson Tuba Concerto with the Triangle Brass
Band. Tony attended the University of Kentucky, and has studied at the University of North Carolina at Greensboro and Towson State in Maryland. While a student in Kentucky, he was first runner up in the UK Concerto Competition in 1997, played solo E-flat tuba with the Lexington Brass Band and was featured with the Bass section of that band several times, including the LBB compact disc release Images. Tony also played with the Advocate-Messenger Brass Band in Danville, KY, appearing on three compact discs and making a solo appearance. Tony was also a driving force in the Four Horsemen Tuba Quartet, the resident student tuba quartet at the University of Kentucky. The FHTQ was the busiest performing ensemble at UK during this time, making an appearance at the 1998 Great American Brass Band Festival, and winning the Adult Ensemble competition at the 1998 NABBA competition. Tony also directed a tuba ensemble at Henry Clay High School, which made an appearance at the1999 South East Regional Tuba Euphonium Conference in Lexington, KY.
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He also serves as director of the Triangle Youth Brass
Band, a 45 piece British style brass band comprised of some of
the most talented high school brass and percussion players in
the Central North Carolina region. The TYBB won the NABBA Youth
Division banner in 2001, 2002, and again in 2004. Tony maintains
a large and active private studio, teaching nearly 30 students
on the middle school and high school levels. Tony directs a summer
tuba ensemble program for high school students each summer, and
can be seen teaching sectionals and master classes in schools
all over the state. Tony likes to conduct brass sectionals with
high school marching bands, and is a regular staffer with one
of the most visible band programs in North Carolina.