Jeffrey Hoard

Gateway Brass Quintet

Jeffrey Hoard, Tuba

A native of Detroit, Michigan who grew up in Iowa, South Dakota and California, Jeff is currently Tuba and Euphonium Instructor at Missouri Baptist University, Washington University in St. Louis and Lindenwood University in St. Charles, Missouri. He also teaches privately at his studio in Maplewood, Missouri.

From 1980 to 1991 he was Principal Tubist with the Hong Kong Philharmonic and performed on over 30 recordings made by the orchestra during that period. He was also Instructor of Tuba and brass chamber music at the Hong Kong Academy for Performing Arts, and the Chinese University of Hong Kong and was a frequent solo and chamber music recitalist throughout southeast Asia.

Jeff now plays frequently with the St. Louis Symphony as an extra player and as a replacement for Principal Tubist, Michael Sanders, and can be heard with the orchestra on the RCA recording of Romeo & Juliet and the 2008 release of Harmonielehre by John Adams. Jeff is active in many other area musical organizations as well, including the Compton Heights Concert Band and the St. Louis Brass Quintet. He appeared as soloist in 2003, 2004 and 2005 with the St. Louis Children's Choirs.

HKPO Low Brass ~1989. Bill Damron, Alistair (Zud) Gaskin, Phil Brink & Jeff

Previously Jeff taught tuba and euphonium at the University of Wisconsin-Madison (and UW-Oshkosh and UW-Whitewater), the University of Missouri, Columbia and St. Louis and Southeast Missouri State in Cape Girardeau. He has performed throughout the world, with the San Francisco Symphony, Opera and Ballet Orchestras, the American Ballet Theater, the Joffry, the Sadlers Wells, the Danish and Cuban National Ballets, the Australian Theatre Company, the Alabama, San Jose, Marin and Monterey Symphonies, the Fresno Philharmonic, the St. Louis Municipal Opera Orchestra and Fox Theater Orchestra, the San Francisco and St. Louis Symphony Brass Quintets, the Wisconsin Brass Quintet, the New World Brass Quartet, the California Brass Consort, the San Francisco and Missouri Tuba Quartets and the Cabrillo Music Festival Orchestra. From 1993 to 1997 he led and played electric tuba in the popular St. Louis R&B group, The Great Flood Band. He has also recorded extensively on all major record labels and for television and movies and commercials internationally.

Jeff studied tuba with Floyd Cooley, former Principal Tubist with the San Francisco Symphony and with Arnold Jacobs, former Principal Tubist with the Chicago Symphony.

With his wife Cheryl, he is co-owner of Cheryl’s Herbs, an international wholesaler/retailer of fine herbal and aromatherapy products. He created and maintains the Cheryl's Herbs website (and this one too!) From 1997-99 he was editor of Scentsitivity (now the Aromatherapy Journal), the journal of the National Association for Holistic Aromatherapy (NAHA) and is now the Central District Director for that organization.

Jeff, with Michael Sanders, Gerry Pagano, Roger Davenport, Tim Meyers

and David Loucky of the St. Louis Symphony. February, 2000.

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