Benjamin Vaganov is a first year master student at UW Madison in the euphonium performance program studying under Dr. Tom Curry. He began his career in music at the age of 6 starting off singing and adding things like piano, low brass, high brass, etc., as time went on. He received his Bachelor’s of Euphonium Pedagogy and Performance from Silver Lake College of the Holy Family under the instruction of Dr. Benjamin Yates and Dr. Dylan Chmura-Moore. He will continue studying here at UW Madison after his masters in performance to obtain a masters degree in music theory.