Gilbert Caridad Corella
Tuba
gcorella@gwu.edu
ext. 49040
Phillips Hall B-146
Bachelor of Music, The Catholic University of America, 1989;
Master of Music (Performance and Conducting), George Mason University, 1997
Prof. Corella, a native of Miami, Florida, has performed as a soloist and clinician at colleges and universities throughout the United States. He has also appeared as a soloist at the Fretted Instrument Guild of America and Mid-America Banjo Enthusiasts international conventions, the United States Army Band Tuba/Euphonium conferences since 1996, and at the international Tuba/Euphonium Conference in Saskatchewan, Canada, in June 2000. Additionally, Corella has performed with the Mickey Finn Show and is widely recognized as a traditional jazz tubist, having played with nearly every Dixieland jazz band in the Washington and Baltimore metropolitan areas. In October 1999, he released a compact disc with tenor banjoist Stephen DiBonaventura, titled, Unnatural Ax, "The Bear," an eclectic mix of classical, Dixieland and jazz. Corella is currently tuba/euphonium instructor at The George Washington University, adjunct tuba/euphonium professor at The Catholic University of America, and musical director for the Loudoun Symphonic Winds in Loudoun County, Virginia, and the Friendly Hall Chamber Orchestra of Southern Maryland.
Corella joined the United States Air Force Band in October 1985. As a tubist assigned to the Ceremonial Brass, he has participated in a broad spectrum of ceremonies ranging from State arrivals at the White House to full honors funerals at Arlington National Cemetery. He has also performed with and conducted other components of the United States Air Force Band, such as the Concert Band and the Chamber Players. Corella has appeared as a soloist with the Ceremonial Brass, the Concert Band and the Chamber Orchestra. Currently, he is the director of the USAF Chamber Players Series and is the leader of the United States Air Force Tuba/Euphonium Quartet.
Prior to his enlistment in the Air Force, he attended the University of Texas at Austin. In the summer of 1984, Corella performed with Disneyland's All-American College Band in Anaheim, CA. His private instructors have included Dave Fedderly, principal tubist with the Baltimore Symphony, Steve Bryant, tuba professor at the University of Texas at Austin, Ben Gucik, principal tubist with the Tulsa Philharmonic and John Holland Wanner, noted embouchure specialist from Las Vegas, Nevada. While at Catholic University, he studied with Milt Stevens, principal trombonist with the National Symphony.
