David Kutz

He holds the position of solo tubist in the Netherlands Philharmonic since the 2009-2010 season. He came to the Netherlands in 2002 because of a position with the Radio Symphony Orchestra. Since then he has performed in virtually every major music company in his new home country, including the Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra, RCO Brass, Asko|Schönberg, the Radio Philharmonic Orchestra, the Metropole Orchestra, the Rotterdam Philharmonic Orchestra and the Residentie Orkest. Outside the Netherlands, he has played in the Antwerp Symphony Orchestra, the Tonhalle-Orchester Zürich, Philharmonia Zürich, the Singapore Symphony Orchestra and the National Arts Centre Orchestra in Ottawa.

But Dave doesn't always sit in the back row of an orchestra; he also likes to step into the foreground with his instrument. A proud member of the musician collective Splendor, he was at the forefront of several multidisciplinary projects. He also performs with a brass ensemble from the Netherlands Philharmonic and is regularly invited as a soloist. Meanwhile, Dave Kutz gave tuba recitals on four continents and was a guest at the International Tuba and Euphonium Conference, the Ottawa Chamber Music Festival and the Holland Festival.
His CD Pure Imagination (2015), recorded with pianist Gerard Bouwhuis and the Chamber Consort Amsterdam, ranges from transcriptions of a baroque concerto by Marcello and cello music by Rachmaninoff to Markus Fagerudd's Rambling Elephant Rag . Listen appreciated the album with a rating of 9.
In addition to his career as a performing musician, Dave Kutz regularly gives master classes. The tuba player studied with Rex Martin, Gene Pokorny, Dennis Miller, Nicolas Atkinson and Arnold Jacobs and earned a Doctor of Music degree from Northwestern University in Chicago. Before emigrating to the Netherlands, he was affiliated with several music faculties in the United States and Canada.
Dave Kutz is a Yamaha International Artist and Lätzsch Cimbasso Performing Artist.

Podcast with David Kutz
He worked in a restaurant for 14 years, had jobs as a painter and security guard and was a professor of tuba at the university. Yet David eventually chose the profession of musician. He talks about his childhood in Canada, playing in a marching band and the series of decisions that brought him to the Netherlands, almost 20 years ago now.