Baton Rouge TubaChristmas

Is it too early to listen to Christmas Music?👀🤔

2025 Baton Rouge TubaChristmas was one for the books.

Thank you to everyone who participated and who attended the concert.

A very special thanks to all of those who helped make the event happen, including Perkins Rowe for allowing us to hold our concert there! Until next year………🎄🎺🎶

We have an ensemble! See you all at 3pm, you won’t want to miss this!🎄🎺🎶

We are so excited to see everyone today. The weather should be perfect right in time for the concert!

Performers, please remember we are cash only and to bring a music stand.🎄🎺🎶

It’s shoutout time! Our final shoutout is for our Co-Coordinator, Kason Hebert.

Kason is a former LSU Tuba who now is a Law Enforcement Officer for the City of Houma. While not bearing the badge, Kason is an instructor for the Ellender Memorial High School Bands and holds private lessons for Low Brass instruments.

Kason is very grateful and humble to be able to bring this event back for a second year and would like to thank all who have made it possible, especially Dr. Chasse Duplantis.

We can’t wait to see you tomorrow for the 2025 Baton Rouge TubaChristmas!🎄🎺🎶

It’s shoutout time! We would like to introduce everyone to our LSU faculty sponsor, Dr. Charles Goodman!

Charlie Goodman is a tuba performer and educator who has recently been appointed Assistant Professor at Louisiana State University in Baton Rouge, Louisiana. He previously held teaching positions at Valdosta State University and Southeastern Louisiana University. He holds degrees from the University Colorado Boulder, the University of Georgia, and Western Michigan University. His primary teachers include Michael Dunn, David Zerkel, Deanna Swoboda, Fritz Kaenzig, and Robert Whaley.

As a performer, Dr. Goodman holds the principal tuba chair of Sinfonia Gulf Coast, based in Destin, Florida, and has previously held similar positions in the Valdosta and Albany (GA) Symphony Orchestras. He has also performed with the Colorado Symphony, Ann Arbor Symphony, Orquesta Filharmonica de Jalisco, the Round Top Festival Orchestra, and the New World Symphony. He is a member of Isomer Quartet, whose debut album of new transcriptions for tuba euphonium quartet, entitled New Folder, was released in 2022.

We would like to thank Dr. Goodman and the LSU School of Music for opening their doors for us!🎄🎺🎶

It’s shoutout time! First up is our Co-Coordinator and Conductor🥁🥁🥁🥁🥁Dr. Chasse Duplantis!

Chasse Duplantis is currently the Assistant Professor of Low Brass at Southern University in Baton Rouge, Louisiana. Dr. Duplantis graduated from Louisiana State University with his Doctor of Musical Arts Degree in Brass Performance with a concentration in Tuba and Euphonium in May 2019. While pursuing his DMA he served as a graduate teaching assistant for the Dr. Joseph Skillen working with his tuba and euphonium studio and LSU Department of Bands working with The Golden Band from Tiger Land. He also holds a Master of Music degree from LSU in Euphonium Performance and a Bachelor’s degree in Music Education from Southeastern Louisiana University.

Prior to pursuing his Masters degree, Dr. Duplantis was the Assistant Band Director at Porter High School in Porter, TX. While at Porter HS, he helped direct the band to the first superior ratings at marching, concert, and sight-reading contests resulting in the first sweepstakes in school history. Additionally, the program experienced numerous other successes including the indoor drumline placing 3rd at the Texas Color Guard Circuit State Championships in 2015, record number of students placed in the TMEA Region Bands, and two students placed in the TMEA All-State Band.

As a performer, he has been invited to perform across the Southern United States. He was an invited performer for both the South Central and South East Tuba Euphonium Conferences as a soloist. Dr. Duplantis is also a performing member with the Backburner Tuba and Euphonium Collective, which plans to record their first album in the Summer of 2021. He has also experienced success winning or placing in several regional, national, and international competitions on both tuba and euphonium. Most notably, he won the Music Teacher’s National Association Young Artist Brass National Competition. Additionally, he has won or placed in several ITEA Regional Artist competitions on both tuba and euphonium and placed second in the Artist Euphonium competition for the International Women’s Brass Conference.

Chasse lives in the Baton Rouge area with his wife, Michelle, their two children, Luke and Charlotte, and golden retriever, Zoe.

We are only 4 days away from Baton Rouge TubaChristmas!!!🎄🎺🎶

Attention Tuba, Baritone, and Euphonium players!

Here is the information regarding participating in our 2nd annual event (white flyer)! If there are any questions, please feel free to email [email protected].

Feel free to decorate your instruments!

Concert-goers, please refer to the red flyer for information about the performance. The performance will be at Perkins Rowe across from the Cinemark Movie Theater!🎄🎺🎶

Just under 2 weeks away! Hope to see you there!🎄🎺🎶

Have a safe and happy Thanksgiving!

🎶Pull out the Holly, put up the Tuba before my spirit falls again!🎶

We are 3 weeks out from our 2nd annual Baton Rouge TubaChristmas!🎺

Make sure you tell your friends. The more, the merrier!🎄🎺🎶