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Douglas Yeo (born 1955) is an American bass trombonist who played in the Boston Symphony Orchestra from 1985 to 2012, where he held the John Moors Cabot Bass Trombone Chair. He was also on the faculty of the New England Conservatory. In 2012 he retired from the BSO and accepted a position as professor of trombone at the Arizona State University School of Music, a position he held until 2016. In 2019, he was appointed to the faculty of Wheaton College (Illinois).

Douglas Yeo
Born1955 (1955)
Monterey, California
Genres
  • Classical music
  • Period performance
  • Brass band
Occupation(s)
  • Bass trombonist
  • Professor
Instrument(s)
Years active1981–
Websiteyeodoug.com

Background


Born in Monterey, California in 1955, Yeo holds a bachelor of music degree with honors from Wheaton College in Illinois and a master of arts degree from New York University. His principal teachers were Edward Kleinhammer and Keith Brown.

Before joining the Boston Symphony Orchestra/Boston Pops Orchestra in May 1985, Yeo was a member of the Baltimore Symphony Orchestra, (1981–1985), and was on the faculties of the Peabody Conservatory of Music, in Baltimore, and The Catholic University of America in Washington, D.C.. His background has included a four-year tenure with the Goldman Band, and performances with the Vienna Philharmonic Orchestra, the Mostly Mozart Festival Orchestra, the Gerry Mulligan Big Band, and orchestras for numerous Broadway shows.

From 1998 to 2008, he was Music Director of the New England Brass Band,[1] which released five compact disc recordings under his direction. In 2006, the New England Brass Band, under Mr. Yeo's direction, won first place in the Honors Section at the North American Brass Band Association[2] National Championship, held in Louisville, Kentucky.

He announced his retirement from the BSO, effective on August 27, 2012, at the conclusion of the Tanglewood 75th anniversary season. He moved to Arizona, where he was appointed Professor of Trombone at Arizona State University (Tempe).[3]

In 2014, he was the recipient of the International Trombone Association's highest honor, the ITA Award, presented to him "in recognition of his distinguished career and in acknowledgement of his impact on the world of trombone performance."[4]


Performance and recording highlights



Historic brass speciality


Douglas Yeo playing a buccin, Boston, 2006
Douglas Yeo playing a buccin, Boston, 2006

In addition to playing the bass trombone, Yeo plays bass trumpet, contrabass trombone, and has become a leading exponent of historical brasses such as the buccin, serpent, ophicleide and bass sackbut.

  • In 2001 he joined the orchestra of Boston Baroque[10] for performances of Monteverdi's L'Orfeo (on bass sackbut) and Handel's Music for the Royal Fireworks (on serpent), the latter of which released in 2003 on the Telarc label. He joined Boston's Handel and Haydn Society for performances of Berlioz' Symphonie Fantastique (playing ophicleide) in 2002 and in the Monteverdi Vespers of 1610 (playing bass sackbut) in 2003.
  • In 2005 he played serpent with wind players from the Handel & Haydn Orchestra on the Divertimento in B flat [St. Antoni Chorale] attributed to Haydn and in Henry Purcell's Dido and Aeneas. Also in 2005 he played ophicleide in the first North American performance on original instruments of Berlioz's Romeo and Juliet with Chorus Pro Musia[11] in Boston.
  • In June 2005 he presented a paper on serpent and ophicleide players in brass bands at the Great American Brass Band Festival's[12] History Conference (Danville, Kentucky) and also performed a solo on ophicleide accompanied by the Athena Brass Band.[13]
  • He presented a recital of music for serpent at the 2000 Historic Brass Festival at the University of Connecticut (Storrs, Connecticut), has lectured on the serpent at the Boston Museum of Fine Arts,[14] the National Music Museum[15] in Vermillion, South Dakota and the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York City, and is named in the New Grove II Dictionary of Music's[16] article on the serpent.

Other activities


Yeo has been extensively involved in teaching. In addition to his major positions at Wheaton College, Arizona State University, and New England Conservatory, he has eight times been on the faculty of the annual Hamamatsu International Wind Instrument Academy and Festival (Hamamatsu, Japan), and has been guest artist and teacher at the International Trombone and Tuba Festival (Beijing, China), the Dutch Bass Trombone Open (Amsterdam, The Netherlands), and the Nagoya Trombone Festival (Nagoya, Japan).

A prolific writer, Yeo has written more than forty articles on the trombone and orchestral playing for various publications, including International Musician,[17] The Instrumentalist,[18] The Brass Herald,[19] Christianity Today, the Historic Brass Society Journal,[20] the International Trombone Association Journal,[21] and the T.U.B.A. Journal.[22]

He did extensive research in the Boston Symphony archives, resulting in the publication of four photo/historical articles on BSO brass players from 1881 to the present; he mounted an exhibit at Symphony Hall on the history and hobbies of members of the Boston Symphony from 1881 to the present during the 1993–94 season. In 2000, he wrote a trombone teaching curriculum for the University of Reading's (United Kingdom) Music Teaching in Private Practice Initiative of their Department of Arts and Humanities in Education.

He is the co-author, along with Edward Kleinhammer, of Mastering the Trombone (Ensemble Publications), and is author of The One Hundred: Essential Works for the Symphonic Bass Trombonist (Encore Music Publishers), and Serpents, Bass Horns and Ophicleides in the Bate Collection (Oxford University Press). In 2021, he published two books, Homer Rodeheaver and the Rise of the Gospel Music Industry (University of Illinois Press), co-authored with Kevin Mungons, and An Illustrated Dictionary for the Modern Trombone, Tuba, and Euphonium Player (Rowman & Littlefield).

Yeo was the plaintiff in a 1994 court case, Yeo vs. Lexington, that tested important issues in scholastic media law. In 1997 Yeo won on appeal to the First Circuit Court of Appeals but subsequently lost at the First Circuit Court of Appeals (en banc) [23] and carried the case to the US Supreme Court which declined to hear it.[24]


References


  1. "New England Brass Band". Retrieved November 20, 2016.
  2. "NABBA". Retrieved November 20, 2016.
  3. Douglas Yeo (August 17, 2011). "Douglas Yeo announces his retirement". Retrieved December 30, 2011.
  4. "ITA Award Previous Recipients". Retrieved October 18, 2019.
  5. "New England Conservatory Wind Ensemble". Archived from the original on January 12, 2006. Retrieved November 20, 2016.
  6. "Lawrence Wolfe". Archived from the original on June 7, 2013. Retrieved November 20, 2016.
  7. Viera, Carol. "Air-ev Productions: Music Web Site for Norman Bolter, Carol Viera and the Frequency Band". Retrieved November 20, 2016.
  8. "International Trombone Festival". Archived from the original on March 21, 2016. Retrieved November 20, 2016.
  9. Christopher Brubeck Archived February 6, 2006, at the Wayback Machine
  10. Boston Baroque
  11. "Chorus pro Musica". Retrieved November 20, 2016.
  12. "Great American Brass Band Festival – June 1–4, 2017 Danville, Kentucky". Retrieved November 20, 2016.
  13. "Athena Brass Band". Archived from the original on August 28, 2008. Retrieved November 20, 2016.
  14. "Museum of Fine Arts, Boston". Retrieved November 20, 2016.
  15. "National Music Museum – USD". Retrieved November 20, 2016.
  16. New Grove II Dictionary of Music Archived September 29, 2005, at the Wayback Machine
  17. "The Home Recording Handbook – International Musician". November 1, 2014. Retrieved November 20, 2016.
  18. "The Instrumentalist". Retrieved November 20, 2016.
  19. "The Brass Herald – The Magazine for the Brass Musician". Retrieved November 20, 2016.
  20. Society, Historic Brass. "Historic Brass Society > Home". Retrieved November 20, 2016.
  21. "International Trombone Association Journal". Archived from the original on October 22, 2015. Retrieved November 20, 2016.
  22. T.U.B.A. Journal
  23. United States Court of Appeals For the First Circuit Archived June 13, 2011, at the Wayback Machine
  24. Student Press Law Center Archived June 15, 2010, at the Wayback Machine





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