Press Releases

“Beautiful tone combined with security and impeccable technique made him an outstanding master on his instrument…..He plays the tuba like a great flutist”

  HERBERT VON KARAJAN

“He masters his tuba with virtuosity down to the smallest details”

LEX DELDEN, HET PAROOL, AMSTERDAM

“The colours and tones which Culbertson conjured from his instrument have been rarely heard from this king of low brass instruments.  Culbertson took the tuba music up to a new high level in a masterly way.”

MIKKA MAUNULA ILKKA, LIEKSA JOURNAL

“…the final piece once again featured contemporary writing in a jazz style, played with abandon and drive…..a delight!”

  MARTIN ERICKSON, U.S. NAVY BAND PRESIDENT, TUBA

“Beautiful soaring tone, sober vibrato and handsome technique – a pure feeling for phrasing

 DE TELEGRAF, AMSTERDAM

“A kind of Heinz Holliger”

N.C.R. HANDELSBLAD, THE HAGUE

“………sans oublier les superbes soli de Tuba de Melvin Culbertson”

J. LONGCHAMPT, LE MONDE, PARIS

”….particulierement remarquable l’extraordinaire habilete de Mel Culbertson”

“trop oublie est le tuba, servi ici par la virtuosite demonique de Mel Culbertson”

RENE KOERING, DIRECTEUR DE RADIO FRANCE

“”Melvin Culbertson qui nous offrit un sensationnel solo de Tuba. (Siegfried de Wagner)

PIERRE PETIT, LE FIGARO, PARIS

"Melvin Culbertson has developed a teaching method (Conservatoire National Superieur de Musique [Lyon] and master classes throughout the world)  which has proved exceptionally stimulating to several generations of tuba players.”

JEAN-PIERRE MATHEZ, BRASS INT’L BULLETIN

“Mel Culbertson is the greatest tuba player I have ever heard”

ARNOLD JACOBS, TUBA SOLO, CHICAGO SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA

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