Tony Zilincik holds degrees in music composition from Central Michigan University and Bowling Green State University. He is the music director of the Central Ohio Brass Band and maintains a private low brass studio of over fifty students. He is the tubist in the Capital Brass brass quintet, the Cathedral Brass brass quintet, and the Brass Band of Columbus. He works as a freelance tuba soloist, is a past winner of the North American Brass Band Association soloist competition and has performed with the Columbus Symphony Orchestra. His first solo recording is currently in production. Also a composer, his latest work, An Ocean Sunrise was commissioned and performed by the Otterbein College Concert Band in the Spring of 2002. Mr. Zilincik is in demand as a tuba and band clinician throughout Ohio and Michigan, most recently having conducted the Pickaway County Honors Band in February, 2002.