Karen Bulmer

Karen Bulmer has a special interest in contemporary music, particularly repertoire that challenges the player to experiment with new ways of producing sound on the tuba.

As a means of introducing the tuba to new audiences, Karen created an original one-woman show, Girl Meets Tuba, about her on-again, off-again relationship with the tuba. She has performed Girl Meets Tuba at Fringe Festivals in Winnipeg and London, Ontario, as well as at the Toronto Music Garden and several Ontario schools. She is currently an Assistant Professor of Music at Memorial University in St. John’s, Newfoundland and Labrador, but has held faculty positions at the University of Western Ontario, the University of Windsor and the University of Prince Edward Island.

She received her doctorate from Yale University in 2004. Karen started playing the tuba on a whim when she was 16 and is now gaining a national reputation as a tuba soloist, chamber musician and pedagogue.