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Chair, Department of Music and Art
BFA 213, 931-372-3167
alabar@tntech.edu

Arthur LaBar holds the Bachelor of Music degree from the University of Wisconsin-Superior. He was awarded the Master of Music degree in horn performance at Indiana University along with a Performer's Certificate.

LaBar performed at the Nixon White House and other locations in and around the District of Columbia as a member of The United States Army Band of Washington, D.C. Under Antal Dorati he was a member of the National Symphony Orchestra, performing concert series at both the Kennedy Center in Washington, and Lincoln Center in New York. He was a member of the Nashville Symphony Orchestras under Kenneth Schermerhorn after coming to Tennessee Tech.

Mr. LaBar is a former member of the Annapolis Brass Quintet, an international touring and recording ensemble. The Quintet's performance of the Elliott Carter Quintet won the Munich "Critic's Award." The ensemble regularly performed in premier chamber music venues in major cities and small towns throughout Europe, Canada, and the United States, and completed several recordings.

LaBar is the author of Horn Player's Audition Handbook, published by Belwin, and Hornist's Opera and Ballet Handbook, a Phoenix Music publication. His teachers include Harold Rutan, Philip Farkas, and Barry Tuckwell.

Prof. LaBar has been at TTU since 1979. His students have established themselves as outstanding musicians and teachers at all professional levels across the United States and beyond. He was named Chair of the Department of Music and Art in 2006.