Articles by Deanna Swoboda

Deanna Swoboda, former tubist with the internationally recognized Dallas Brass, is Assistant Professor of Music at Western Michigan University where she teaches tuba and euphonium and performs with the Western Brass Quintet, a resident faculty ensemble. Since 1994, Ms. Swoboda has toured the United States and Europe presenting concerts, master classes, and school residencies. She has performed with well-known artists such as Della Reece, Lionel Hampton, Bill Watrous, Michael Feinstein and Winton Marcellus. As a former member of the Arizona Commission for the Arts, Indiana Young Audiences and Oregon Young Audiences Deanna continues performing educational music assemblies and school residencies respectively.


Swoboda holds degrees in tuba performance from the University of Idaho and Northwestern University, and is ABD for the Doctor of Musical Arts degree from Arizona State University. In addition to being a video artist for Silver Burdette-Ginn, Swoboda wrote, produced, organized, and performed on the band recruitment DVD “Band Blast Off!”, released in 2006. Her solo CD, “Deanna’s Wonderland,” was released on Summit Records in 1999. She will release her next children’s CD, “Tuba Tex: How the West was Fun” in spring 2008. Prior to her appointment at Western Michigan University, Swoboda taught at the University of Nevada Las Vegas, the University of Northern Iowa, University of Denver, University of Idaho, National Conservatory of Madrid (Spain), and Deutschen Tubaforum–Hammelberg (Germany).