Deanna Swoboda
“You can’t wait to be inspired” – Deanna Swoboda
Deanna Swoboda (@deannaswoboda)is an Associate Professor of Music at Arizona State University. She teaches tuba and euphonium, Entrepreneurship and Music courses, coaches chamber music, and designs creative music performances. Early in her career, Deanna developed the K-6th grade music program, Band Blast Off. She toured and performed at thousands of schools across the country inspiring children to play instruments.
Deanna shares how she teaches students to improvise musically, and in life, and how she encourages them to pursue and diversify their goals. We discuss our brass heroes, Deanna’s journey from clarinet to tuba and how she encourages playfulness in the practice routine. Deanna shares about her time with Dallas Brass, the challenges and opportunities of teaching during a pandemic and what’s currently inspiring her.
In this episode we touch on the following topics:
- Entrepreneurship and career design
- Meeting your heroes
- Practice habits and structure
- Being playful
- Covid-19 and teaching online
- Breath and breathing
Links from the episode:
- Arizona State University School of Music
- Tubaligation
- Band Blast Off!
- Western Michigan University
- ASU Certificate Program in Entrepreneurship
- ASU Tuba and Euphonium Studio
- Silhouette by John Harmon
- Ralph Vaughan Williams Tuba Concerto
- University of Idaho Lionel Hampton Jazz Festival
- iReal Pro
- Breath by James Nestor
- Wim Hoff
- The Breathing Gym
- Bonerama
- Psychedelic Dances: 1. Tuba and Euphanema
- The Dallas Brass
- University of Nevada, Las Vegas
- Dallas Cowboys
- Lip Slurs for Tuba
- Top Tones for Saxophone by Sigurd Rascher
- The MRI Horn Project
- Kalamazoo, MI
- Love theme from Cinema Paradiso – ASU Faculty Brass
- The Accidental Creative
- The Practice by Seth Godin
Show Notes:
- How to organize your practice time (29:55)
- Breathing (39:16)
- Fitting your sound to the situation (45:26)
- Living as a gypsy musician, life with the Dallas Brass (58:55)
- What the heck are lip slurs? (55:59)
- Upcoming projects (65:15)
- Women in music and brass (67:17)
- Inspirations (75:07)
- Essential Practice Room Tools (76:44)
People Mentioned:
- Josh Oxford
- Clark Rigsby
- Scott Yandell
- Baruch Meir
- Heidi Tsai
- Susan Kane
- Roger Bobo
- Sam Pilafian
- John Harmon
- Wim Hof
- James Nestor
- Patrick Sheridan
- George W Bush
- Jerry Jones
- Adolf Sax
- Sigurd Rascher
- Eli Epstein
- Amy Holbrook
- Brad Edwards
- Chet Baker
- Louis Armstrong
- Earth Wind and Fire
- Seth Godin
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