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Steven Darling
Applied Tuba and Euphonium
Steven Darling, Adjunct Professor of Tuba & Euphonium, instructs tuba and euphonium lessons, studio class, tuba-euphonium pedagogy/literature, and directs the Wright State University Tuba-Euphonium Ensemble. Prior to joining the faculty at Wright State University, Mr. Darling was an Adjunct Professor of Low Brass at Murray State University and a Sabbatical Substitute of Tuba and Euphonium at Ohio University.
Mr. Darling has achieved success in regional and international competitions having received 1st in the 2017 Tuesday Musical Brass Competition, was a semi-finalist in the 2017 Falcone International Euphonium-Tuba Festival Tuba Artist Competition, was a semi-finalist at the 2016 International Tuba-Euphonium Association Conference Chamber Competition, 1st in the 2016 CCM Ernest N. Glover Brass Choir Concerto Competition, 2nd at the 2016 Music Teachers National Association Regional Brass Solo Competition, 1st at the 2015 Music Teachers National Association Brass Solo Competition of Ohio, 1st in the 2015 Ohio University Concerto Competition, 1st in the 2015 Southeast Regional Tuba-Euphonium Conference Euphonium Artist Competition, 1st in the 2015 Northeast Regional Tuba-Euphonium Euphonium Artist Competition, and 2nd at the 2014 International Tuba-Euphonium Conference Euphonium Artist Competition.
Steven is in demand as a soloist, having appeared with the Ohio University Wind Symphony, CCM Ernest N. Glover Brass Choir, Sheboygan Pops-Concert Band of Wisconsin, and the University Youth Wind Ensemble of Wisconsin. Mr. Darling has appeared as a guest artist and lecturer at local and international conferences including the 2017 Northwest Regional Tuba-Euphonium Conference, 2017 Great Plains Regional Tuba-Euphonium Conference, 2016 International Tuba-Euphonium Conference, 2016 Kentucky Music Educators Association Conference, 2015 Southeast Regional Tuba-Euphonium Conference, and 2014 Midwest Trombone-Euphonium Conference.
An advocate of new music, Steven has premiered works throughout the United States by award winning composers Ellen Ruth Harrison, Benjamin McMillan, Lawton Hall, Ian Lester, Dr. Richard Wetzel, Dr. Elaine Ross, Dr. Andy Francis, and Sy Brandon. Recently, Steven received a series of grants including the 2016 Co-Op Press Recording Assistance Grant and the 2017 CCM POWER Innovation Award, which will be used to fund his debut album Dualities published by Emeritus Recording.
As a composer, Steven’s works have been performed at conferences throughout the United States including the 2017 Army Band Tuba-Euphonium Workshop, 2017 Great Plains Regional Tuba-Euphonium Conference, the 2017 International Euphonium-Tuba Festival, 2016 International Tuba-Euphonium Conference, 2015 Midwest Regional Tuba-Euphonium Conference, 2015 Southeast Regional Tuba-Euphonium Conference, and 2014 International Tuba-Euphonium Conference. In 2015 Steven’s work Til’ Human Voices Wake Us for Pierrot Ensemble was selected as a finalist in the Seattle Chamber Orchestra Composition Competition. Mr. Darling’s arrangements, transcriptions, and original compositions have received publication from Cimarron Press, Potenza Inc., and Cherry Classics Publishing.
Steven is the first-ever Pedagogy Video Librarian for ITEAONLINE.org, the official website of the International Tuba-Euphonium Association. In this capacity Mr. Darling works with leading performers and educators of the tuba-euphonium community to create pedagogical videos for ITEAONLINE.org. Prior to this position, Steven was the first-ever Pedagogy Resource Librarian, working with publishers to procure examples of pedagogical materials. In addition to his work for ITEAONLINE.org, Mr. Darling is a reviewer of new materials for the International Tuba-Euphonium Association Journal, having received publication in both the ITEA hardcopy and e-journals. In 2015 Steven’s article “How to Prepare the High School Euphoniumist” was published in TRIAD, the official journal of the Ohio Music Educators Association.
Currently Mr. Darling is a D.M.A. Candidate of Tuba and Euphonium at the University of Cincinnati College-Conservatory of Music. Steven received a B.F.A. in Music from the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee and a M.M. in Euphonium Performance/Brass Pedagogy from Ohio University. Mr. Darling has primarily studied with Timothy Northcut, Dr. Jason Smith, and Marty Erickson.
