Members
Born and raised in Falls Church, VA, trumpeter Steve O’Connor joined the Presidio Brass in July of 2011. He enjoys an active freelance career in the Los Angeles area, including performances with the Los Angeles Opera, Pasadena Symphony, Pasadena Pops, the Ojai Festival Orchestra, the California and Riverside Philharmonics, as well as Santa Barbara, Redlands and San Bernardino Symphonies. Steve has also performed with the Moscow Symphony during a tour of the United States. As a chamber musician, he performs with Jacaranda, the Mládí Chamber Orchestra, Pacific Brass Ensemble, and at various chamber music venues throughout Los Angeles. In addition to performing, Steve serves as a trumpet instructor for the Bob Cole Conservatory of Music at the California State University in Long Beach and at the Idyllwild Arts Academy. He earned a Bachelor’s degree in music from Michigan State University and a Master’s in Music from Cal State Long Beach. His teachers have included Tim Morrison, Jim Wilt, and Dave Washburn.
Originally from Monterey, CA, trumpet player Andrew Elstob joined the Presidio Brass in December of 2011. In addition to life on the road with Presidio Brass, he enjoys a career that encompasses a wide variety of musical styles and ensembles, from symphony orchestras to big bands, musicals to chamber music. Andrew has played for most of the current touring Broadway productions, including “Mary Poppins,” “Camelot,” “High School Musical,” and “Dirty Rotten Scoundrels,” and alongside such notable artists as Don Rickles, Wynonna Judd, John Lithgow, Patty LuPone and Lou Diamond Philips. Additionally, he has performed with many of the top music ensembles in Southern California, including the San Diego Symphony, Orchestra Nova, and was a member of Westwind Brass. He has toured throughout North and South America, including a tour of Mexico with the Orchestra de Baja and internationally celebrated tenor, Luciano Pavarotti. Andrew grew up in the Bay Area near San Francisco, CA and moved to San Diego to attend the California State University, where he earned his Bachelor and Master of Music degrees with an emphasis in jazz studies. In his free time, Andrew enjoys being with his wife and two dogs while cheering on his San Francisco Giants and 49ers.
Mike McCoy, a San Diego native, has been the horn player for the Presidio Brass since its inception in 2006. In addition to Presidio Brass, he holds the position of 4th Horn with the Las Vegas Philharmonic. Mike was Co-Principal Horn with San Diego’s Orchestra Nova, and currently performs regularly in the horn sections of the San Diego Symphony, San Diego Opera, and Pacific Symphony. His horn playing has accompanied the likes of Frank Sinatra Jr., Pink Martini, Liza Minnelli, Luciano Pavarotti, Aretha Franklin, Dave Brubeck, Burt Bacharach, among many more. Mike has performed with national touring Broadway shows, including “The Lion King”, “Tommy” and “Wicked”, as well as “The Lion King” production at the Mandalay Bay Resort in Las Vegas. He is an active commercial recording artist including the movies soundtracks to “Mr. Jones”, “Jackson”, and “Arn 2 – The Knights Templar”, as well as the video game soundtracks of “Diablo 3″, “Bionic Commando Revived”, and the original “Everquest”. Past performances include the Billings (MT) Symphony, Riverside Philharmonic, Mexico City Philharmonic, Orchestra de Baja California, Strauss Symphony of America, as well as a tour of the West Coast as soloist with the New England Youth Ensemble and playing lead horn under John Rutter in Carnegie Hall. When not performing, he enjoys educating, having been an adjudicator for the Southern California School Band and Orchestra Association and was featured on the horn demonstration videos for the series “Tradition of Excellence” from Kjos Music. Mike studied at the San Diego School for the Creative and Performing Arts, followed by San Diego State University and the Boston Conservatory of Music.
Third generation trombonist, Sean Reusch, originally from Toms River, NJ, is a founding member of the Presidio Brass. Sean began performing trombone when he was ten years old. After receiving a Bachelor of Arts Degree in Psychology from Penn State University and a Master of Music Degree in Performance from the Manhattan School of Music, he moved to San Diego, CA. Since then, Sean has performed with many groups including the San Diego Symphony, San Diego Opera, Orchestra Nova, Los Angeles Opera, Orquesta de Baja California, Pacific Symphony, Paragon Ragtime Orchestra, and the Barnum and Bailey Circus. Sean has performed with artists such as Dave Brubeck, Johnny Mathis, David Sanborn, Bernadette Peters, Eddie Daniels, Natalie Cole, and Marvin Hamlisch. As an educator, Sean is currently on faculty at UCSD, Palomar College, Mira Costa College, and at the Idyllwild Arts Academy during the summer. Sean maintains a large private teaching studio and many of his students have gone on to study music at universities including USC, UCLA, San Francisco Conservatory, Oberlin Conservatory, Cleveland Institute of Music, and Eastman School of Music to name a few. Sean resides in Carlsbad, California, with his wife and two children.
A native of Los Angeles, Scott Sutherland is the tubist, pianist and primary music arranger for the Presidio Brass. He is also a member of the Redlands Symphony, the Riverside County Philharmonic and has performed with the Los Angeles Philharmonic, San Diego Opera, San Diego Chamber Orchestra and the New West, Long Beach and San Diego Symphonies. From 2005-2007, he was principal tuba of the Colorado Springs Philharmonic. As a soloist, he has been featured with the San Diego Symphony, Riverside County Philharmonic, Burbank Philharmonic and the Idyllwild Arts Symphony Orchestra. Scott has played on motion picture and video game soundtracks, including the movie Pearl Harbor and has appeared with such artists as John Williams, Stevie Wonder, Quincy Jones, and Jerry Goldsmith. Scott is also active as a composer and arranger, with performances by the Pacific Symphony, Aguascalientes Symphony Orchestra in Mexico, USC Elf Jazz Ensemble and San Diego Winds. As an educator, Scott is on faculty at the University of Redlands, Palomar College and the Idyllwild Arts Summer Program. He was a brass pedagogy teaching assistant while attending UCLA and spent a year as a certificated school band/orchestra director for the Pasadena Unified School District. Scott earned his Bachelor of Music degree from USC, a Master of Music degree from UCLA and has studied with Tommy Johnson, Jim Self, Norm Pearson and Doug Tornquist. In his free time, Scott enjoys hanging out with his wife, Christine, and their two children, Aly and Jake, at their home in Carlsbad, CA.