Jay Krush is a native of the Philadelphia  area whose busy career includes performing, composing, arranging, teaching and conducting.

A founding member of the Grammy Award

Grammy Award

A Grammy Award — or Grammy — is an accolade by the National Academy of Recording Arts and Sciences of the United States to recognize outstanding achievement in the music industry...

-winning Chestnut Brass Company

Chestnut Brass Company

The Grammy winning Chestnut Brass Company was founded in 1977 to advance the art and skills of musical performance and the knowledge and understanding of musical history with an emphasis on brass instruments...

, he has performed on tuba and historical brasses with that ensemble for twenty five years, touring to forty nine of the U.S. States and to Europe, South America, Asia, Canada and the Caribbean. He can be heard on recordings with the Chesntut Brass Company on the Sony Classical, Naxos, Newport Classic, Polygram, Albany, Musical Heritage Society and Crystal labels.

Mr. Krush is also a tubist with the Pennsylvania Ballet Orchestra and on the faculty of the Boyer College of Music at Temple University

Temple University

Temple University is a comprehensive public research university in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States. Originally founded in 1884 by Dr. Russell Conwell, Temple University is among the nation's largest providers of professional education and prepares the largest body of professional...

 where he teaches tuba and euphonium and directs the Contemporary Music Ensemble.

As a composer he has written over seventy works, including two symphonies, for a wide variety of media and has received grants and awards from the National Endowment for the Arts

National Endowment for the Arts

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, the Pennsylvania Council on the Arts

Pennsylvania Council on the Arts

The Pennsylvania Council on the Arts is an agency serving the U.S. state of Pennsylvania.Established in 1966, its mission is "to foster the excellence, diversity and vitality of the arts in Pennsylvania and to broaden the availability and appreciation of those arts throughout the state." Each year...

, the American Composers Forum

American Composers Forum

The American Composers Forum is a non-profit membership organization dedicated to the promotion and assistance of American composers and their music. It was founded in 1973 as the Minnesota Composers Forum and is based in Saint Paul, Minnesota, United States...

 and others.

Mr. Krush holds a Bachelors degree in composition from the Eastman School of Music

Eastman School of Music

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 and a Masters in performance from Northwestern University

Northwestern University

Northwestern University is a private research university in Evanston and Chicago, Illinois, USA. Northwestern has eleven undergraduate, graduate, and professional schools offering 124 undergraduate degrees and 145 graduate and professional degrees....

, where he studied with the Chicago Symphony’s Arnold Jacobs

Arnold Jacobs

Arnold Jacobs was an American orchestral tuba player who was most known as the principal Tubist for the Chicago Symphony Orchestra from 1944 until his retirement in 1988....

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