Matthew Lyon
Associate Professor of Tuba and Euphonium
Matthew Lyon
is the recently appointed assistant professor of tuba and euphonium at Ball
State University. Previously the instructor of low brass at the University
of Windsor and the Flint Institute of Music, Lyon is a graduate of Depaul
University (MM), the University of Michigan (BM), and the Interlochen Arts
Academy. He was principal tubist of the Civic Orchestra of Chicago for two
seasons and has substituted with the Detroit Symphony Orchestra, the Grant Park
Symphony Orchestra, the Cincinnati Symphony Orchestra, the Fort Wayne Philharmonic,
and the New World Symphony. Professor Lyon has been selected as a guest artist
for the 2012 International Tuba/Euphonium Conference in Austria and the 2012
Army Band Tuba/Euphonium Conference in Washington D.C. His principal teachers
include Floyd Cooley, Gene Pokorny, Warren Deck, Wesley Jacobs, and Fritz
Kaenzig.