Deanna L. Swoboda is Assistant Professor of Music at Western Michigan University where she teaches tuba and euphonium and performs with the Western Brass Quintet, a resident faculty ensemble. Swoboda holds degrees from the University of Idaho and Northwestern University, and is completing studies for the Doctor of Musical Arts degree from Arizona State University. Since 2000, Swoboda has performed as a member of the Dallas Brass, a 6-piece ensemble which 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 (California), and Washington/Idaho Symphony. Swoboda is also the creator and performer of a motivational recruiting presentation and music workshop called “Brass Rap!” and founder of the University of Oklahoma’s International Tuba/Euphonium Summer Workshop, which has been held annually since 1998. 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, National Conservatory of Madrid (Spain), and Deutschen Tubaforum–Hammelberg (Germany). As a clinician, Swoboda has appeared at the national and northwest regional conventions of Music Educators National Conference (MENC), 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, and Utah. She has also made appearances on the CBS Early Morning Show – with the Dallas Brass – and National Public Radio, and was featured in the May 2004 issue of The Instrumentalist magazine and the October 2000 issue of School Band and Orchestra magazine. 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.