David Porter Tuba Recital On November 10 at Limestone

David Porter, a retired 24-year veteran Chief Master Sergeant from the United States Air Force Band in Washington, DC, will perform a tuba recital at Limestone College’s Carroll Recital Hall on Tuesday, Nov. 10, at 7:30 p.m. Admission is free and the public is invited to attend.

Porter played with the Air Force Band’s Concert Band, Ceremonial Brass, Symphony Orchestra, Airmen of Note, Singing Sergeants, Dixieland Band, and several chamber groups and brass quintets.

He will be accompanied by Emily Jarrell Urbanek, a native of Gaffney.

Porter has a B.S. in Music Education from Tennessee Technological University a M.M. in Tuba Performance from the University of New Mexico, and is currently working on his D.M.A. in Tuba Performance at George Mason University (GMU). His performance history includes Principal Tuba with the New Mexico Brass Quintet, the New Mexico Symphony Orchestra, substitute with the Maryland Symphony Orchestra and is currently Principal Tuba with The McLean Orchestra. Porter has also had many solo appearances with the USAF Concert Band and Chamber Series, touring with Tim Zimmerman and The King's Brass (2010-2015), with eurobrass (2013-2015), and performing with Camerata Brass Quintet, Commonwealth Brass Quintet, The McLean Orchestra Brass Quintet, and many other chamber and orchestra ensembles throughout the Washington, DC, area.

His very active teaching career of over 30 years includes college clinics, high school band camps, sectionals and clinics, as well as middle school and elementary sectionals and clinics. He currently teaches 30 tuba and euphonium students weekly from seven different schools in Fairfax County, VA, and has had students gain scholarships at over 12 major universities. He is also on staff as Adjunct Class Brass and Applied Tuba Instructor at GMU as well as the Graduate Assistant for “The Green Machine,” the 180-member athletic music ensemble at GMU. During the summers, David is on faculty at the MasterWorks Festival, a Christian performing artist camp in Winona Lake, IN.

David's professional memberships include the International Tuba Euphonium Association, American Federation of Musicians, Phi Kappa Phi, Phi Mu Alpha, National Honor Society, and Kappa Kappa Psi National Honorary Band Fraternity.

Emily Jarrell Urbanek is currently Head of Music Preparation for Opera Carolina in Charlotte. She is also an extra keyboardist with the Charlotte Symphony. She frequently performs chamber music in Charlotte, teaches through the Community School for the Arts, and until recently served as staff accompanist for Queens University. For several years, Urbanek has been on the musical staff of the Fort Worth Opera Festival and Chautauqua Opera, and she was repetiteur for San Diego Opera’s Nixon in China (2015) and Samson et Dalila (2013), and New Orleans Opera’s Cendrillon (2014). Emily was invited to be one of two accompanists for Fort Worth’s prestigious McCammon Voice Competition in May 2008. Emily holds degrees from Furman University, the University of Michigan, and the Cleveland Institute of Music.