School of Music - Deanna L. Swoboda
Deanna L. Swoboda (2005)
Tuba, Euphonium
B.M. Idaho
M.M. Northwestern
D.M.A. Arizona State
Deanna L. Swoboda is Assistant Professor of Music at Western Michigan University where she teaches tuba, euphonium, and music entrepreneurship; coaches chamber music; and performs with the Western Brass Quintet, a resident faculty ensemble.
Before joining the WMU music faculty, Swoboda was a member of the Dallas Brass, a six-piece ensemble that travels the United States and Europe presenting approximately 100 concerts per year and working extensively in the public schools and at colleges and universities. Other performing credits include the Denver Brass, Cedar Rapids (Iowa) Symphony, Symphony of the West Valley (Arizona), and Washington/Idaho Symphony. Swoboda is also the creator and performer of a motivational recruiting video and music workshop called "Band Blast Off!" Swoboda travels the United States performing in this program along with recitals and motivational master classes.
Prior to her appointment at WMU, Swoboda taught at the University of Nevada Las Vegas and Las Vegas Arts Academy. She has also taught at the University of Northern Iowa, University of Denver, University of Idaho. As an international performer and clinician she has been a guest at the National Conservatory of Madrid (Spain), Deutschen Tubaforum-Hammelberg (Germany), and The Higher School for the Arts in Porto, Portugal. As a clinician, Swoboda has appeared at the national and northwest regional conventions of Music Educators National Conference (MENC) on numerous occasions, the Midwest Band and Orchestra Clinic, International Women's Brass Conference, International Tuba-Euphonium Regional Conference, and for state music educator associations in Illinois, Maine, New Jersey, Texas, Utah, Montana, Arizona, Minnesota, North Dakota, Michigan, Oklahoma among others. She has also made appearances on the CBS Early Morning Show - with the Dallas Brass - and was featured in the May 2004 issue of The Instrumentalist.
Swoboda wrote, produced, organized, and performed on the educational resource DVD "Band Blast Off!" She has appeared on CD recordings with the Dallas Brass, Salt River Brass Band, and Belle Aire Brass. Her solo CD, Deanna's Wonderland, was released on Summit Records in 1999. Her new solo tuba CD is titled Shamanic Journey and features the music of women composers. It will be released in Fall 2009.
Email: deanna.swoboda@wmich.edu