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Michael O'Connor - BaritoneBiographical Information |
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Michael O'Connor is the founder and artistic director of Newberry's Victorian Cornet Band. He holds a PhD in Historical Musicology from The Florida State University along with degrees in euphonium performance (MM Florida State) and music education (BS Tennessee Tech). He currently serves as an Assistant Professor of Musicology at Palm Beach Atlantic University in West Palm Beach, FL. His euphonium teachers include R. Winston Morris, Daniel Perantoni, and Paul Ebbers. From 1986-1992 Dr. O'Connor was the euphoniumist for the Clyde Beatty-Cole Bros. Circus Band, being one of the last musicians to hold that post. He has been an active performer on historic brass instruments in the mid-Atlantic region since 1997 and was a founding member of the Washington Cornett & Sackbutt Ensemble. In addition the Newberry Band, he also performs with the Federal City Brass Band (a Civil War-era period instrument group) and the Chesapeake Brass Band. As a researcher, Dr. O'Connor has published in The Yearbook of the Alamire Foundation, Medieval Perspectives, and The New Grove Dictionary of Music and Musicians. His history of the euphonium appears in Guide to the Euphonium Repertoire , published by Indiana University Press. Dr. O'Connor plays a number of different period baritones, but mostly plays a Bruno and Sons Austrian import (Boland and Fuchs) from c. 1885.
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