Dallas Professorship for David Childs
Based just outside Dallas, the University of North Texas College of Music is one of the USA’s largest and most respected comprehensive music schools and its Euphonium Studio has a global reputation as the finest of its kind.
Following the announcement of Regent Professor Brian Bowman’s retirement last year, UNT began an international search for his successor, which ended today with the announcement that David Childs has been appointed as a tenured Full Professor of Euphonium in their Division of Instrumental Studies.
Dean John Richmond expressed his delight at welcoming David to the faculty of the UNT College of Music outlining his impressive credentials that led to him winning the prestigious position: "British euphoniumist David Childs has emerged as one of the finest brass soloists of his generation. In 2000, he broke new ground for the euphonium becoming the first euphonium soloist to win the brass final of the televised 'BBC Young Musician of the Year', which led to David’s highly acclaimed premiere performance of Philip Wilby’s 'Concerto for Euphonium' with the BBC Philharmonic under Yan Pascal Tortelier. In the same year, he was awarded the coveted 'Euphonium Player of the Year' title – a title he won again in 2004 and still holds today.
"Mr. Childs has toured extensively, performing as a soloist in Australia, New Zealand, the Middle East, Japan, Hong Kong, Europe and the U.S.A. He is a keen advocate of new music and has premiered ten concerti for euphonium, including a Royal Albert Hall BBC Proms broadcast of Alun Hoddinott's 'Sunne Rising - The King Will Ride', a Carnegie Hall US premiere of Karl Jenkins’ 'Concerto for Euphonium & Orchestra', and a UK premiere of Christian Lindberg’s 'Concerto for Euphonium & Orchestra' directed by the composer."
He added, "I am so pleased to announce the appointment of David Childs as a tenured Full Professor of Euphonium in the University of North Texas College of Music, Division of Instrumental Studies."
David joins a distinguished faculty including internationally acclaimed artists and scholars in composition, conducting, ethnomusicology, music education, music entrepreneurship, music history, music theory and performance. David has already worked with the UNT euphonium studio on two occasions in recent months and will begin his formal role in August of this year.
On his appointment, David commented: “I look forward to this exciting new chapter and am thrilled to have UNT's support in combining an international solo career with a teaching post of this magnitude. Over the last two decades Dr. Brian Bowman has made UNT an iconic institution for euphonium study, so to follow in his footsteps is a huge honour."
