Eddie Gonzalez is a tuba player and educator from El Paso, Texas. He is a Teaching Fellow at the University of North Texas, where he teaches undergraduate students, conducts a tuba/euphonium ensemble, and helps manage the studio. He also teaches private lessons at Flower Mound High School.

 

Eddie performs as Principal Tuba of the McKinney Philharmonic and is on the Houston Symphony and New World Symphony Tuba Substitute Lists.

Eddie has earned recognition in major competitions and auditions. He was a finalist for the U.S. Army “Pershing’s Own” National Collegiate Solo Competition (2024) and the U.S. Army “Pershing’s Own” Tuba and Euphonium Workshop Solo Competition (2024), a two-time semi-finalist at the Leonard Falcone International Euphonium & Tuba Festival (2023, 2024), a finalist for the Atlanta Symphony Orchestra Fellowship (2022), and advanced to the semi-finals for the Auckland Philharmonia Orchestra principal tuba audition (2022). Earlier in his career, he was a finalist for the Mock Orchestral Tuba Audition at the Rafael Méndez Brass Institute (2018).

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Eddie previously served as a Graduate Teaching Assistant at Oklahoma State University, where he taught low brass methods and worked with the Tuba/Euphonium Studio. He also performed with the Tulsa Symphony Orchestra Brass Quintet and the Tulsa Opera.

 

His primary teachers include Don Little, Matt Good, Jeff Baker, and Ryan Robinson.