Tony Swainson
Tony Swainson is a senior brass lecturer with responsibilities for low brass. His influence has resulted in many of his tuba students going on to prestigious professional positions around the world while numerous elite brass bands feature his euphonium, baritone and tuba players.
Tony Swainson is a senior brass lecturer with responsibilities for low brass. His influence has resulted in many of his tuba students going on to prestigious professional positions around the world while numerous elite brass bands feature his euphonium, baritone and tuba players.
Tony himself studied at the Royal Manchester College of Music, now the RNCM, where he studied with the renowned tuba player, Stuart Roebuck, as well as piano and composition.
He made his professional debut with the Halle Orchestra under Barbirolli in 1968. Having freelanced with various orchestras and ensembles in NW England he moved to Glasgow as principal Tuba with the BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra 3 years later. Shortly afterwards, in 1972, he began his long association with the Royal Conservatoire of Scotland (formerly the Royal Scottish Academy of Music and Drama), becoming the Conservatoire’s first specialist professor of tuba.
In 1997 he decided to relinquish his BBCSSO position to spend more time teaching, conducting and composing/arranging. As a conductor Tony currently enjoys directing and training the Junior Conservatoire Symphony Orchestra. Elsewhere, he has also enjoyed considerable success directing Scotland’s elite brass bands, as well as several in England and Norway. He has appeared at all the major brass band competitions throughout Great Britain and Scandinavia both as a conductor and as an adjudicator.