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sybrandon

Composer, tuba player, and author Sy Brandon, professor emeritus of music from Millersville University, Millersville, PA, has received numerous commissions and honors including 1st place in WITF-FM's 25th Anniversary Composition Contest, the El Dorado Sacred Music Composition Contest, Franklin and Marshall College’s Wind Ensemble Composition Contest and the New England String Ensemble Composition Contest. In 2010, he received a commission from the Arizona Commission on the Arts to compose the band composition to celebrate Arizona's Centennial. His music has been recorded by the Czech National Symphony Orchestra, the Philharmonia Bulgarica the Kiev Philharminic and has been performed both throughout the United States and abroad including performances by the United States Army, Navy and Air Force Bands and on NPR’s Performance Today. He and his oboist and polymer clay artist wife, Anita, live in Cottonwood, Arizona.