Todd M. French
Todd M. French
Associate Professor of Music
Telephone: 270.809.4289
Office: Price Doyle Fine Arts 524
Todd M. French is Associate Professor of Tuba and Euphonium at Murray State University.
Along with his duties as the tuba/euphonium professor, Dr. French also teaches music
theory, coaches chamber ensembles, and conducts the MSU Brass Choir and Tuba/Euphonium
Ensemble. Prior to joining the faculty at Murray State University, Dr. French was
the Tuba/Euphonium Instructor at Eastern Illinois University. He also served as an
Associate Instructor at Indiana University and held faculty positions as Applied Tuba
and Euphonium Instructor at Doane College in Crete, Nebraska and Low Brass Instructor
at Point Loma Nazarene College in San Diego, California.
Dr. French has a diverse performing career as a soloist, chamber musician, military
musician, orchestral musican, and commercial artist. His career includes serving as
principal tuba and soloist with the U.S. Seventh Fleet Navy Band (Japan) and Navy
Band San Diego. Dr. French has performed with numerous other ensembles across the
country, including the Indianapolis Symphony, the Indianapolis Chamber Winds, the
Prairie Chamber Ensemble, the Omaha Symphony, the Lincoln Symphony, and the Tokyo
Symphony Orchestra. Dr. French has performed with international recording artists,
such as Leann Rimes, Jason Marsalis, Marvin Hamlisch, Neil Sedaka, The Celtic Women,
and performed on Garrison Keillor’s, A Prairie Home Companion. Along with tuba, Dr.
French is an accomplished bass trombone player. He has toured with The Jimmy Dorsey
Big Band, the Nebraska Jazz Orchestra, and the Broadway touring shows, Rag Time and
Beauty and the Beast.
Dr. French has been a performer and presenter at the International Tuba Euphonium
Conferences, Midwest and Southeast Regional Tuba Euphonium Conferences, the Symposium
on Music Teacher Educators, the Midwest NAfME Conference, Colloquium for Instrumental
Music Teacher Educators, Illinois Music Educators Conference, and the Kentucky Music
Educators Conference. He is an active recitalist, clinician, and adjudicator; and
presents performance master classes and teaching clinics across the Midwest and Southeast.
Dr. French received his Doctor of Music from Indiana University Jacobs School of
Music. He also holds a Master of Music from Indiana University and a Bachelor of Music
from the University of Nebraska-Lincoln. Dr. French’s teachers/mentors include Daniel
Perantoni, Anthony Kniffen, Craig Fuller, Scott Anderson, David Jacobsen, and Thomas
McGrady.