Martin D. "Marty" Erickson teaches tuba and euphonium at Penn State University, directs the tuba-euphonium ensemble, and is tubist with the Pennsylvania Brassworks brass quintet. He joined the Penn State faculty in 1994 as a visiting lecturer. Erickson recently retired from the United States Navy Band in Washington, D.C., where he served as principal tuba, performed with the brass quintet, directed the tuba-euphonium quartet and served as assistant producer on three Navy Band CDs.
Mr. Erickson has performed as a soloist/clinician throughout Eastern Europe, Japan, Sweden, Bermuda, Cuba, and in 48 of the 50 states. He has performed with the Boston Pops Orchestra, the Lansing Symphony, England's "Sun Life Brass Band" and numerous university and community bands, jazz bands, brass bands and orchestras. He has appeared with the National Symphony at the Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts and Carnegie Hall, the Annapolis Chamber Orchestra, the Baltimore Opera Orchestra, the Maryland Symphony, the Washington Masterworks Orchestra, the Smithsonian Masterworks Jazz Orchestra, and the "Symphonia" tuba-euphonium ensemble. He is principal E-flat tubist with the Brass Band of Battle Creek. and is a founding member of the Bowie Brass Quintet, the percussion-tuba duo, "Balance," and the Mirage brass duo.
As a studio musician, Mr. Erickson has performed on more than thirty albums of orchestra, wind ensemble, jazz, folk, and children's music. He is a past-president of Tubists Universal Brotherhood Association (T.U.B.A.) , adjudicating chairman for the Leonard Falcone International Euphonium Festival, and a member of the Board of Directors of the Colonial Tuba Institute.