J.S.Bach, Sonata in Eb; Brahms, Vier Ernste Gesange; Earl Zinders, Trigon (solo tuba with overdub); Armand Russell, Suite Concertante (tuba and woodwind quintet).

Floyd Cooley, Tuba; Naomi Chatkin Nimmo, Piano and Harpsichord; Janet Ketchum, Flute; Earle Dumler, Oboe; James Kanter, Clarinet; Charles Ullery, Bassoon; Arthur David Krehbiel, Horn

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Floyd Cooley has been heard in recital throughout the US, Europe and Japan, appearing as soloist, clinician and giving master classes.Born in Oskaloosa, Iowa in 1948, Cooley joined the San Francisco Symphony in 1969, at the time the youngest tuba player in any major orchestra in the US. Since then, he has appeared as soloist with the Symphony under the batons of Seiji Ozawa and Jahja Ling; given recitals in a wide variety of places, including Carnegie Hall; commissioned works by Earl Zindes and Richard Feliciano; and during the 1992-1993 season, played with the Chicago Symphony Orchestra.

"Cooley’s virtuosity and suppleness ...is to be heard and maybe even then, not to be believed,"San Francisco Chronicle

A musician of extremely varied activities and interests, Cooley founded the San Francisco Tuba Quartet and in 1982 became the first tuba player to be soloist resident artist on the Visiting Artist Series in the Quad Cities of Iowa and Illinois, where he played in schools and factories to over fifteen thousand people.

He is currently serving as the Instructor of Tuba at the San Francisco Conservatory of Music, Stanford University and DePaul University in Chicago.