Travels With My Tuba

A career in music with that most cumbersome of brass instruments, the tuba: Jim Anderson has played with most of the main orchestras in the UK and many international ones, including the London Symphony Orchestra, London Philharmonic Orchestra, Royal Philharmonic Orchestra and Boston Symphony Orchestra and was a member of the BBC Symphony Orchestra, the Orchestra of the Age of Enlightenment, the Wallace Collection and the London Sinfonietta. He has worked Adrian Boult, Malcolm Sergeant, Antonio Pappano, Colin Davis, George Solti, Simon Rattle, Aaron Copland, Benjamin Britten, Seiji Ozawa, Bernard Haitink, Leonard Bernstein, and Mariss Jansons. He was Mr Oom-pah-pah in Rainbow one of the most famous children's programmes in the 1970s and Tubby the Tuba, in another. He has played on a number of significant film soundtracks among them Bond films, Star Wars and Lord of the Rings. and he was tuba professor at the Guildhall School of Music and Drama for 30 years.

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