Cale Self, D.M.A.

Associate Professor of Music & Associate Director of Bands: Low Brass
Department of English, Film, Languages, and Performing Arts College of Arts, Culture, and Scientific Inquiry

678-839-6268
tcself@westga.edu

Gunn Hall - Room A-104

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Cale Self, D.M.A.

Cale Self is Professor of Music, Assistant Director of Bands, and Instructor of Euphonium & Tuba at the University of West Georgia in beautiful Carrollton, GA. Also serving as the Director of Athletic Bands, Dr. Self directs the Marching Wolves of West Georgia and the Wolfgang Basketball Pep Band. He also conducts the UWG Symphonic Band, Brass Ensemble, and Tuba Ensemble.

Holding degrees in music education and instrumental conducting from West Texas A&M University, Dr. Self also holds a doctorate in euphonium performance from the University of Georgia. His teachers include David Zerkel, John Lynch, Allen Crowell, Patrick Sheridan, Sam Pilafian, Gary Garner, Joe Nelson, and Joseph Cox. He began his career by teaching high school band in his hometown of Midland, TX.

In the summertime, Dr. Self is the Dean of Students at the Brevard Music Center in the scenic Blue Ridge Mountains of western North Carolina. In that capacity, he administers the non-musical side of life at BMC, supervising a staff of 4 assistant deans and 35 resident advisors as well as over 400 student musicians who study at the music center each summer. He is also an active musician at BMC as a frequent performer in the wind band, chamber music, and orchestral programs on euphonium, tuba, trombone, and bass trumpet.

Dr. Self has performed at state, regional, national, and international conferences and festivals in Alabama, Colorado, Florida, Georgia, Indiana, Louisiana, New York, North Carolina, Ohio, South Carolina, Tennessee, Texas, and Virginia. He has performed under conductors Keith Lockhart, JoAnn Falletta, Thomas Wilkins, Robert Moody, Ken Lam, Steven Smith, Kraig Williams, and Fred Mills.

An advocate for new music, Dr. Self has participated in commissioning consortiums that have resulted in over thirty new works for euphonium, tuba, or concert band over the past ten years, and has performed or conducted premiere performances of fifteen of those pieces. Recent commission projects include several works by UWG alumnus Katahj Copley, including Limitless for tuba, euphonium, and piano, and a concerto for euphonium and band entitled Canvases.

Dr. Self is an artist affiliate with Eastman Winds and Parker Mouthpieces. He remains active in the state of Georgia and throughout the Southeast as a soloist, ensemble musician, conductor, clinician, and adjudicator.

Spring 2022 Sections

Fall 2021 Sections

Spring 2021 Sections

Fall 2020 Sections

Spring 2020 Sections

  • MUSC-2600P (Principal Applied: Tuba) Section: 01
  • MUSC-2710 (Symphony Band) Section: 01
  • MUSC-2800M (Small Ensemble:Brass Ensemble) Section: 01
  • MUSC-2800P (Small Ensemble:Basketball Band) Section: 01
  • MUSC-4600O (Principal Applied: Euphonium) Section: 01
  • MUSC-4600P (Principal Applied: Tuba) Section: 01
  • MUSC-4610O (Secondary Applied: Euphonium) Section: 01
  • MUSC-4710 (Symphony Band) Section: 01
  • MUSC-4800M (Small Ensemble: Brass Ensemble) Section: 01
  • MUSC-4800P (Small Ensemble:Basketball Band) Section: 01
  • MUSC-4942 (Full Recital) Section: 05
  • MUSC-5800M (Small Ensemble:Brass Ensemble) Section: 01
  • MUSC-6800 (Graduate Recital) Section: 02

Fall 2019 Sections

  • MUSC-2600O (Principal Applied: Euphonium) Section: 01
  • MUSC-2600P (Principal Applied: Tuba) Section: 01
  • MUSC-2720 (Marching Band) Section: 01
  • MUSC-2800M (Small Ensemble:Brass Ensemble) Section: 01
  • MUSC-4600O (Principal Applied: Euphonium) Section: 01
  • MUSC-4600P (Principal Applied: Tuba) Section: 01
  • MUSC-4610O (Secondary Applied: Euphonium) Section: 01
  • MUSC-4720 (Marching Band) Section: 01
  • MUSC-4800M (Small Ensemble: Brass Ensemble) Section: 01
  • MUSC-4850 (Applied Conducting) Section: 01
  • MUSC-5800M (Small Ensemble:Brass Ensemble) Section: 01
  • MUSC-5850 (Applied Conducting) Section: 01
  • MUSC-6600O (Principal Applied: Euphonium) Section: 01
  • MUSC-6610P (Secondary Applied: Tuba) Section: 01
  • MUSC-6800 (Graduate Recital) Section: 01

Spring 2019 Sections

  • MUSC-2600O (Principal Applied: Euphonium) Section: 01
  • MUSC-2600P (Principal Applied: Tuba) Section: 01
  • MUSC-2610O (Secondary Applied: Euphonium) Section: 01
  • MUSC-2710 (Symphony Band) Section: 01
  • MUSC-2800M (Small Ensemble:Brass Ensemble) Section: 01
  • MUSC-2800P (Small Ensemble:Basketball Band) Section: 01
  • MUSC-4600O (Principal Applied: Euphonium) Section: 01
  • MUSC-4610O (Secondary Applied: Euphonium) Section: 01
  • MUSC-4710 (Symphony Band) Section: 01
  • MUSC-4800M (Small Ensemble: Brass Ensemble) Section: 01
  • MUSC-4800P (Small Ensemble:Basketball Band) Section: 01
  • MUSC-4941 (Half Recital) Section: 04
  • MUSC-5800M (Small Ensemble:Brass Ensemble) Section: 01
  • MUSC-6600O (Principal Applied: Euphonium) Section: 01
  • MUSC-6600P (Principal Applied: Tuba) Section: 01

Fall 2018 Sections

  • MUSC-2600O (Principal Applied: Euphonium) Section: 01
  • MUSC-2600P (Principal Applied: Tuba) Section: 01
  • MUSC-2720 (Marching Band) Section: 01
  • MUSC-2800M (Small Ensemble:Brass Ensemble) Section: 01
  • MUSC-4600O (Principal Applied: Euphonium) Section: 01
  • MUSC-4600P (Principal Applied: Tuba) Section: 01
  • MUSC-4720 (Marching Band) Section: 01
  • MUSC-4800M (Small Ensemble: Brass Ensemble) Section: 01
  • MUSC-6600O (Principal Applied: Euphonium) Section: 01
  • MUSC-6600P (Principal Applied: Tuba) Section: 01

Spring 2018 Sections

  • MUSC-2600O (Principal Applied: Euphonium) Section: 01
  • MUSC-2600P (Principal Applied: Tuba) Section: 01
  • MUSC-2710 (Symphony Band) Section: 01
  • MUSC-2800M (Small Ensemble:Brass Ensemble) Section: 01
  • MUSC-2800P (Small Ensemble:Basketball Band) Section: 01
  • MUSC-4710 (Symphony Band) Section: 01
  • MUSC-4800M (Small Ensemble: Brass Ensemble) Section: 01
  • MUSC-4800P (Small Ensemble:Basketball Band) Section: 01
  • MUSC-5800M (Small Ensemble:Brass Ensemble) Section: 01
  • MUSC-6600P (Principal Applied: Tuba) Section: 01

Fall 2017 Sections

  • MUSC-2600O (Principal Applied: Euphonium) Section: 01
  • MUSC-2600P (Principal Applied: Tuba) Section: 01
  • MUSC-2720 (Marching Band) Section: 01
  • MUSC-2800M (Small Ensemble:Brass Ensemble) Section: 01
  • MUSC-4600O (Principal Applied: Euphonium) Section: 01
  • MUSC-4720 (Marching Band) Section: 01
  • MUSC-4800M (Small Ensemble: Brass Ensemble) Section: 01
  • MUSC-4941 (Half Recital) Section: 03

Spring 2017 Sections

  • MUSC-2600O (Principal Applied: Euphonium) Section: 01
  • MUSC-2600P (Principal Applied: Tuba) Section: 01
  • MUSC-2710 (Symphony Band) Section: 01
  • MUSC-2800M (Small Ensemble:Brass Ensemble) Section: 01
  • MUSC-2800P (Small Ensemble:Basketball Band) Section: 01
  • MUSC-4600O (Principal Applied: Euphonium) Section: 01
  • MUSC-4710 (Symphony Band) Section: 01
  • MUSC-4800M (Small Ensemble: Brass Ensemble) Section: 01
  • MUSC-4800P (Small Ensemble:Basketball Band) Section: 01
  • MUSC-4942 (Full Recital) Section: 03
  • MUSC-5710 (Symphony Band) Section: 01
  • MUSC-5800M (Small Ensemble:Brass Ensemble) Section: 01

Fall 2016 Sections

  • MUSC-2600O (Principal Applied: Euphonium) Section: 01
  • MUSC-2600P (Principal Applied: Tuba) Section: 01
  • MUSC-2720 (Marching Band) Section: 01
  • MUSC-2800M (Small Ensemble:Brass Ensemble) Section: 01
  • MUSC-4600O (Principal Applied: Euphonium) Section: 01
  • MUSC-4720 (Marching Band) Section: 01
  • MUSC-4800M (Small Ensemble: Brass Ensemble) Section: 01
  • MUSC-4941 (Half Recital) Section: 02

Spring 2016 Sections

  • MUSC-2600O (Principal Applied: Euphonium) Section: 1
  • MUSC-2600P (Principal Applied: Tuba) Section: 1
  • MUSC-2710 (Symphony Band) Section: 1
  • MUSC-2800M (Small Ensemble:Brass Ensemble) Section: 1
  • MUSC-2800P (Small Ensemble:Basketball Band) Section: 01
  • MUSC-4600O (Principal Applied: Euphonium) Section: 1
  • MUSC-4600P (Principal Applied: Tuba) Section: 1
  • MUSC-4710 (Symphony Band) Section: 1
  • MUSC-4800M (Small Ensemble: Brass Ensemble) Section: 1
  • MUSC-4800P (Small Ensemble:Basketball Band) Section: 1
  • MUSC-4941 (Half Recital) Section: 05
  • MUSC-5710 (Symphony Band) Section: 1
  • MUSC-5800M (Small Ensemble:Brass Ensemble) Section: 1

Fall 2015 Sections

  • MUSC-2600O (Principal Applied: Euphonium) Section: 01
  • MUSC-2600P (Principal Applied: Tuba) Section: 01
  • MUSC-2720 (Marching Band) Section: 01
  • MUSC-2800M (Small Ensemble:Brass Ensemble) Section: 01
  • MUSC-4600O (Principal Applied: Euphonium) Section: 01
  • MUSC-4600P (Principal Applied: Tuba) Section: 01
  • MUSC-4720 (Marching Band) Section: 01
  • MUSC-4800M (Small Ensemble: Brass Ensemble) Section: 01
  • MUSC-5720 (Marching Band) Section: 01
  • MUSC-5800M (Small Ensemble:Brass Ensemble) Section: 01

Spring 2015 Sections

  • MUSC-2600O (Principal Applied: Euphonium) Section: 01
  • MUSC-2600P (Principal Applied: Tuba) Section: 01
  • MUSC-2710 (Symphony Band) Section: 01
  • MUSC-2800M (Small Ensemble:Brass Ensemble) Section: 01
  • MUSC-2800P (Small Ensemble:Basketball Band) Section: 01
  • MUSC-4600O (Principal Applied: Euphonium) Section: 01
  • MUSC-4600P (Principal Applied: Tuba) Section: 01
  • MUSC-4710 (Symphony Band) Section: 01
  • MUSC-4800M (Small Ensemble: Brass Ensemble) Section: 01
  • MUSC-4800P (Small Ensemble:Basketball Band) Section: 01
  • MUSC-5710 (Symphony Band) Section: 01
  • MUSC-5800M (Small Ensemble:Brass Ensemble) Section: 01
  • MUSC-5800P (Small Ensemble:Basketball Band) Section: 01