Ronald Bishop

Head, Tuba Department, retired from The Cleveland Orchestra after having served as principal tuba since 1967. He received a Bachelor of Music degree from Eastman School of Music and a Master of Science degree from the University of Illinois. He completed private studies with Arnold Jacobs. He is a member of the Severance Brass Quintet, Cleveland Low Brass Ensemble, and the Cleveland Symphonic Winds, and is a former member of the American Wind Symphony, Buffalo Philharmonic, San Francisco Symphony, and San Francisco Opera Orchestra. He has served as soloist with The Cleveland Orchestra on numerous occasions, and made frequent appearances as a clinician, soloist and recitalist. Previous faculty appointments include Baldwin- Wallace College, the Eastman School of Music, Oberlin College, San Francisco State College, and Youngstown State University. In 1983, he was inducted as National Patron of Delta Omicron, an international music fraternity. In 1988 he received the Alumni Achievement Award from Eastman School of Music. He has received Grammy Awards for PDQ Bach: An Awful Lot of Wind and Percussion Instruments; Antiphonal Music of Gabrieli: Brass Ensembles of Philadelphia, Chicago and Cleveland Orchestras, 1969. He was appointed to the CIM faculty 1968.

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