Brian Kubin, D.M.A.

About Brian

Dr. Brian Kubin has been an active teaching performer for the past 26 years and currently teaches cello, bass, string methods, and music theory at Truman State University in Missouri. His former principal teachers include Hans Jørgen Jensen, Tanya Remenikova, and Julie Zumsteg, and he has studied chamber music and orchestral repertoire with John Sharp, John Pegis, Peter Slowik, and members or the Vermeer Quartet. He has also participated in master classes with Steven Doane, Paul Katz, Timothy Eddy, and Uri Vardi.

Past faculty positions include Northern Michigan University, the College of St. Catherine, and Gustavus Adolphus College. Kubin has performed recitals throughout the Midwest and in Italy and has been actively involved in a number of chamber ensembles including the Keweenaw String Quartet, Arius Chamber Music Society, the Superior Chamber Players, and the Sheridan Chamber Players, which performed on a live broadcast of the Dame Myra Hess concert series. He has also performed with a number of orchestras including the Kansas City Symphony, Minnesota Opera, Minneapolis Pops Orchestra, Skylark Opera, Pine Mountain Festival Orchestra, Marquette Symphony, the Keweenaw Symphony, and the Chicago Civic Orchestra and the Quincy Symphony, where he is currently principal cello.