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Discover David Spies
David Spies is an active conductor, performer, and clinician throughout the United States. Currently on the music faculty for Marian College of Fond du Lac, Wisconsin, he has also served on the faculties for the University of Iowa, Southeastern Oklahoma State University and Northwestern State University of Louisiana.
In addition to numerous solo recitals, Spies has performed with the Milwaukee, Cedar Rapids, Oshkosh, Fort Worth, Shreveport, and New Haven Symphony Orchestras as well as the Dallas Wind Symphony and United States Coast Guard Band. An active Madison, Wisconsin-based freelance musician, he is Principal Tubist of the Racine Symphony Orchestra, Solo E-flat Tubist and Assistant Director of the Madison Brass Band, and performs with the Madison-based klezmer band Yid Vicious.
His recording credits include over 20 recordings for Klavier, GIA, Centaur, Mark and CRI with such groups as the Grammy-nominated North Texas Wind Symphony, the composer/performer collaborative Common Sense, the Shreveport Symphony Orchestra, and the First Brigade Civil War Brass Band of Watertown, Wisconsin.
Spies has performed alongside such popular artists as Kenny Wayne Shepherd, LeAnn Rimes, Roy Clark, and James Taylor. An active chamber musician, he has performed with the Iowa Brass Quintet, New York Woodwind Quintet, the Meridian Arts Ensemble, and the Canadian Brass.
Spies was twice selected "The Outstanding Graduate Student in Instrumental Studies" at the University of North Texas, where he completed the Doctor of Musical Arts degree in 1999. He is also a graduate of the University of Wisconsin-Madison and Yale University, where he was awarded the first Artist Diploma ever to be received by a low brass musician.
David Spies is a Willson Tuba Artist and a founding member of the Willson Tuba Quartet. Dr. Spies performs on the Willson 3400S Eb tuba.
In addition to numerous solo recitals, Spies has performed with the Milwaukee, Cedar Rapids, Oshkosh, Fort Worth, Shreveport, and New Haven Symphony Orchestras as well as the Dallas Wind Symphony and United States Coast Guard Band. An active Madison, Wisconsin-based freelance musician, he is Principal Tubist of the Racine Symphony Orchestra, Solo E-flat Tubist and Assistant Director of the Madison Brass Band, and performs with the Madison-based klezmer band Yid Vicious.
His recording credits include over 20 recordings for Klavier, GIA, Centaur, Mark and CRI with such groups as the Grammy-nominated North Texas Wind Symphony, the composer/performer collaborative Common Sense, the Shreveport Symphony Orchestra, and the First Brigade Civil War Brass Band of Watertown, Wisconsin.
Spies has performed alongside such popular artists as Kenny Wayne Shepherd, LeAnn Rimes, Roy Clark, and James Taylor. An active chamber musician, he has performed with the Iowa Brass Quintet, New York Woodwind Quintet, the Meridian Arts Ensemble, and the Canadian Brass.
Spies was twice selected "The Outstanding Graduate Student in Instrumental Studies" at the University of North Texas, where he completed the Doctor of Musical Arts degree in 1999. He is also a graduate of the University of Wisconsin-Madison and Yale University, where he was awarded the first Artist Diploma ever to be received by a low brass musician.
David Spies is a Willson Tuba Artist and a founding member of the Willson Tuba Quartet. Dr. Spies performs on the Willson 3400S Eb tuba.