Doug Neill

Principal Tuba

Doug Neill is currently an adjunct bass and tuba instructor at North Dakota State University, Minnesota State University Moorhead and Concordia College Moorhead. He has spent the past 34 years as a teacher in Minnesota public schools teaching band, choir, elementary music and orchestra. He is presently an orchestra teacher in the Moorhead public schools.

Mr. Neill holds a degree in Music Education from North Dakota State University, and it was during his years there that he spent a summer in the Disney World All-American College Band. As the bass player in that group, he performed with various well-known artists such as Bobby Shew, Steve Houghton and Rob McConnell. During that same summer, he studied with Sam Pilafian on tuba as part of the Boston University Tanglewood Institute.

In 2012 Mr. Neill earned his Masters Degree in Music Education from Minnesota State University Moorhead. Locally, he has performed as a bass player in the Fargo-Moorhead Jazz Arts Group, the Dick King Band, Post-Traumatic Funk Syndrome and many other groups. Mr. Neill has also been the Principal Tubist with the Fargo-Moorhead Symphony since 1981. He lives in Moorhead with his wife Laurie.