Guest Artist Tuba and Piano Recital: Phil Sinder and Ling Lo

Guest Artist Tuba and Piano Recital: Phil Sinder and Ling Lo
7:30 p.m. Wednesday, October 7, 2026
Beckwith Recital Hall
Free and open to the public
The recital will also be streamed online: ndsu.edu/music/stream
ABOUT PHIL SINDER:
Philip Sinder retired in 2025 as professor of tuba and euphonium at the Michigan State University College of Music following 46 years of dedicated teaching and mentoring at the university. His students are found in performance and teaching positions throughout the United States, and have won awards in numerous performance competitions. Sinder has performed with many leading ensembles, including the Detroit Symphony, Chicago Symphony, St. Louis Symphony, Mariinsky Orchestra, and Houston Symphony.He is a founding member of the Brass Band of Battle Creek, and also performs frequently with the Lansing Symphony, Michigan Opera Theatre, and the Beaumont Brass Quintet of MSU. His solo tuba recording, “Aerodynamics,” has received strong critical acclaim, and he has performed on over 20 large ensemble and brass quintet recordings. In 2009, Sinder was the recipient of the Withrow Excellence in Teaching Award at Michigan State University, and in 2017 he received the International Tuba Euphonium Association Excellence in Teaching Award. He currently serves as chairman for the Leonard Falcone International Euphonium and Tuba Festival, and since 2005 has been a Valade Teaching Fellow at the Interlochen Arts Camp. Sinder earned a Bachelor of Music Education degree and Performer’s Certificate from the Eastman School of Music, and a Master of Music degree from Wichita State University.
ABOUT LING LO:
Ling Lo, native Taiwanese. As an active performer, Dr. Lo has been invited as a guest artist to present recitals at several universities including Purdue University Fort Wayne, Olivet College, Saginaw Valley State University, the University of Louisville, SUNY Potsdam, Schenectady County Community College, and the University of Kentucky. Additionally, Dr. Lo has served as a festival pianist for the Leonard Falcone International Euphonium and Tuba Festival, the Mid-West Regional Tuba and Euphonium Conference, Henri Selmer Summer Clarinet Festival, and The Potsdam Clarinet Summit. She has also worked for opera productions such as “Le Nezzo di Figaro”, “Dido and Aeneas”, “Princess Ida”, and “Street Scene”.With a strong passion for chamber music, Dr. Lo has formed several chamber groups that focus on both classical and contemporary repertoire, including a piano, violin, and clarinet trio sponsored by Verdehr Trio, Henosis Piano Quartet, Connexion Trio, and currently the Duo LoW with the focus on expanding repertoire for piano and low brass.
As a believer of music education, Dr. Lo participated in “Celebrating of Spectrum: A Festival for Music and Life” as program assistant from 2016 to 2019, a program for young autistic pianists. In 2017, she presented this program at the DOCTRID conference in Limerick, Ireland. She had previously served as instructor at State University of New York in Potsdam, Saginaw Valley State University, The Flint Institute of Music, and staff pianist at Texas A&M University – Kingsville. Dr. Lo is currently serving as Teaching Assistant Professor in Collaborative Piano at University of North Dakota. In the summertime, Dr. Lo spend time with her family and lovely puppy at New England Music Camp on fauclty as the chair of piano area.
Dr. Lo holds degrees from Michigan State University (D.M.A. Piano Performance/D.M.A. Collaborative Piano/M.M. Collaborative Piano) and Boston University (M.M. Piano Performance). Her teachers include Pavel Nersessian, Konstantinos Papadakis, Deborah Moriarty, and Zhihua Tang.