John Manning 

John Manning (tuba) is Assistant Professor of tuba at the University of Iowa, and is a founding member of the award-winning Yamaha performing ensemble, the Atlantic Brass Quintet. Mr. Manning has also served as the principal tubist with the Vermont Symphony Orchestra and the Albany (NY) Symphony Orchestra.

Originally from Raynham, Massachusetts, Mr. Manning received his undergraduate degree from Boston University and his graduate degree from the University of Massachusetts Amherst. From 1986 to 1989, John served as the solo tubist with the Air Force Band of the Golden West. While stationed in California, former Staff Sergeant Manning was involved in numerous recordings and performed extensively throughout the Western United States.

Mr. Manning has served on the faculty of The Boston Conservatory, Boston University's School for the Arts, and Tanglewood Institute and the University of Massachusetts Amherst. He has conducted tuba master classes at Louisiana State University, the University at Buffalo, Chautauqua Institution, and New England Conservatory. Outside the United States, John has worked with brass students in Tokyo, Japan; San Jose, Costa Rica; Panama City, Panama; the Cairo Opera House in Egypt; and the Royal Omani National Orchestra School in Muscat, Oman. 

As a Yamaha solo artist he has appeared at Louisiana State University Octubafest, the International Tuba Euphonium Conferences, and Music Educators Conferences in Connecticut and Massachusetts. Mr. Manning has hosted the Northeastern Regional Tuba Euphonium Conference at University of Massachusetts in March of 2003, and the Hawkeye Regional Tuba Euphonium Conference at the University of Iowa in 2007.

You can hear John Manning on his new solo recording, Four Corners: Tuba Music from Around the World on Summit Records. John also maintains a blog called Tubahead.