Featured Soloist: Eli Newberger, tuba
March 16 and 18, 2007

Eli Newberger, MD, plays both classical and jazz tuba, is a pediatrician, an expert on child abuse and influential author. He teaches at the Harvard Medical School and founded the Child Protection Team and the Family Development Program at Children’s Hospital in Boston. He was for 30 years (1971-2001) the high-profile tuba player with the New Black Eagle Jazz Band, one of the most prestigious jazz ensembles performing today. A rave review of the band in the New York Times hailed Eli Newberger as one of the outstanding tuba players in the country.

Eli Newberger studied theory at the Juilliard School and attended Yale University where he majored in music theory and began a lifelong interest in applying principals of musical analysis to the study of jazz improvisation. Concurrent with his music studies, Dr. Newberger took pre-med courses and graduated from the Yale Medical School in 1966. His eight-year stint as tubist with the New Haven Symphony was his last serious flirtation with a classical tuba career, although he has performed in recent years the David Baker Sonata for Tuba and String Quartet, and Tubby the Tuba (twice). On the jazz side, in addition to numerous Black Eagle recordings, he has recorded frequently with the banjo virtuoso and vocalist Jimmy Mazzy, most notably with Butch Thompson in “The Men They Will Become: Jazz Takes on Male Character” (Stomp Off Records).

Eli Newberger and Mike Roylance will perform the world premiere of Howard Frazin’s “Theme & Reverberations for Two Tubas and Orchestra” on March 16 & 18, 2007.

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