A native of Darlington, South Carolina, Dr. Paul Dickinson works across the Southeast as both a performer and teacher. Paul currently teaches tuba and euphonium at both Kennesaw State University and Reinhardt University near Atlanta, GA. In addition to a handful of placements in major national and international competitions, he has also been invited to the live rounds of competitive military band euphonium auditions. He currently plays euphonium for the Georgia Brass Band based in Atlanta, GA. He also regularly serves as the principal euphonium with the Poinsett Wind Symphony in Greenville, SC, and served intermittently as principal euphonium with Georgia’s Gwinnett Symphony Wind Orchestra from 2016-2018. He also performs with DIVERGENCE, a professional tuba/euphonium quartet in Atlanta, GA, of which he was a founding member.
In addition to his busy teaching and performance schedule, Dr. Dickinson regularly arranges music for large and small brass ensembles. He is in high demand as a brass teacher and clinician by high school and middle school programs from around the Southeast. Over the past few years, his private high school students have won seats in state-level Honor ensembles, received high ratings at Solo and Ensemble festivals, earned contracts into top-twelve drum corps, and gained scholarships into highly competitive college studios. His college students are sought after to teach in local middle and high school programs all around Cobb County and the greater metro-Atlanta area. Several of his students have also won DCI championships over the past five years. Members of the all-undergraduate Kennesaw State tuba/euphonium studio have earned placements in the final rounds of solo and ensemble competitions at multiple regional conferences around the U.S., and have earned spots in nationally recognized orchestral music festivals. The combined Kennesaw State/Reinhardt University Tuba Euphonium Ensemble was invited to perform at the 2019 International Tuba Euphonium Conference. Dr. Dickinson and the KSU tuba/euphonium studio was selected to host the 2020 Southeastern Regional Tuba Euphonium Conference prior to the COVID-19 pandemic, but they remain hopeful that they will be able to host the event in March 2021 instead.
In May 2014, Dr. Dickinson began the development of a recording project called Foundations. The purpose of Foundations is to provide an easily accessible catalogue of early-to-intermediate solos and etudes for the euphonium, tuba, and trombone as a resource for music teachers, high school students, and young college musicians. The first album is now available for free perusal on his website, www.DickinsonBrass.com.
Dr. Dickinson holds degrees from Furman University (BME, ’11), Georgia State University (MM, ’13), and Florida State University (DM, ’16). He was primarily taught by Mark Britt (trombone), Fred Boyd (trombone), Mike Taylor (tuba), Eric Bubacz (tuba), Adam Frey (euphonium), and Paul Ebbers (tuba/euphonium).