Dr. Fritz Kaenzig

Biography

Fritz Kaenzig served as the principal tubist for the Florida Symphony Orchestra and was an additional substitute tubist for Amsterdam’s Concertgebouw, as well as for several major symphony orchestras in Detroit, San Francisco, Houston, Chicago, Los Angeles, and St. Louis, working with conductors such as Bernstein, Haitink, Leinsdorf, Ozawa, Salonen, and Slatkin. He has recorded and performed as a soloist with orchestras, and has appeared as soloist with the U.S. Air Force and Navy Bands. In 1984, Mr. Kaenzig was principal tubist for the Grant Park Orchestra in Chicago during the summers, playing to capacity audiences at the Pritzker Pavilion in Millennium Park in 2005. He has performed with a wide variety of artists including Alan Ginsberg, Luciano Pavarotti, and the Moody Blues. As a guest instructor, recitalist, and adjudicator, Mr. Kaenzig has made appearances at high schools, colleges, universities, conferences, and music camps throughout the United States, Korea, and Japan. He received his degrees from Ohio State University and the University of Wisconsin-Madison, with extensive studies under Arnold Jacobs, tubist of the Chicago Symphony Orchestra and member of the Tanglewood Music Center Orchestra. Before joining the University of Michigan faculty, he taught at the University of Illinois and the University of Northern Iowa. Mr. Kaenzig is a past president of the Tubists Universal Brotherhood Association and is known within the International Tuba Euphonium Association.

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