Winston Morris

R. Winston Morris, the elder statesman of tuba professors worldwide, has been internationally recognized for the past five decades as one of the leaders in the advancement of the tuba. He is Professor of Music and Instructor of Tuba and Euphonium at Tennessee Technological University, in Cookeville, Tennessee, where he has been on the faculty since 1967.

Morris is regarded as the leading authority on the literature for the tuba, was one of the founding fathers of the Tubists Universal Brotherhood Association (T.U.B.A.) (now International Tuba Euphonium Association) and acknowledged worldwide as the major authority on the development of the tuba ensemble. He was the Senior Editor for both editions of the Tuba Source Book published by Indiana University Press as well as the “supervisor” of the Guide to the Euphonium Repertoire, tubist along with Harvey Phillips and Dan Perantoni in the Matteson/Phillips TUBAJAZZ CONSORT, conductor of the large professional tuba/euphonium ensemble, SYMPHONIA, founder and co-producer of the new tuba jazz ensemble, THE MODERN JAZZ TUBA PROJECT, and has been awarded the prestigious Lifetime Achievement Award by the International Tuba Euphonium Association as well as the 2003 Tennessee Tech University Caplenor Research Award, the most prestigious award presented annually to TTU faculty. More recently Morris was honored by the American Bandmasters Association with their highest award, the Edwin Franko Goldman Memorial Citation and inducted into the Tennessee Music Educators Association “Tennessee Music Education Hall of Fame.”