This Year's Clinician

Dr. Gary Viebranz is an adjunct faculty member in the D'Angelo School of Music, where he conducts the Mercyhurst Civic Orchestra and teaches applied lessons in tuba & euphonium. He holds the honor of Teaching Professor Emeritus of Music at Penn State, where he served as the Director of Instrumental Ensembles for twenty-five years at the Behrend campus in Erie. 

Previously, Dr. Viebranz was on the faculty at Hiram College and taught music in the school districts of Brooklyn, OH, and Wellington, OH. He has performed, taught, and conducted extensively throughout North America with various orchestras, brass ensembles, and other groups, including the Disneyland All-American Marching Band, the New Sousa Band, Guy Lombardo’s Royal Canadians, and the Keystone Bavarians. Dr. Viebranz remains active as a performer, currently a member of the Bayfront Brass Quintet and the Bayfront Dixieland Band. He is a member of the Pennsylvania Music Educators Association, the National Association for Music Education, the College Orchestra Directors Association, the College Band Directors National Association, the Pennsylvania Intercollegiate Bandmasters Association, Chamber Music America, and the American Federation of Musicians. He has conducted numerous honors ensembles nationwide at the district and regional level and has been a contributing writer to the journal PMEA News. He also serves as the local coordinator for Erie's Tuba Christmas celebration, held annually each December. 

Dr. Viebranz graduated from The Ohio State University with a Bachelor of Music Education degree, cum laude. He received the Master of Music degree in tuba performance and conducting, as well as the Doctor of Musical Arts degree in conducting from the Conservatory of Music at the University of Cincinnati.