HepTones
Tuba artist Ralph Hepola unites with innovative masters in music from the 18th to the 21st century. Your audiences will agree – the HepTones are excellent and truly original!

Music from Centuries Past +
Jazz + Ballads + Blues + Latin

Mark Asche
Keyboard phenomenon Mark Asche appears with top Twin Cities jazz and pop groups, as well as national artists appearing in Minnesota.

Kevin Washington
Drummer and Detroit native Kevin Washington has toured and recorded with national jazz artists including Cuban keyboardist Nachito Herrera.

Gary Raynor
Hailing from Long Island, bassist Gary Raynor has a long resume of experience from Sammy Davis Jr. to A Prairie Home Companion on National Public Radio.

Ralph Hepola
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Fast Classical
Slow Classical
Slow Jazz
Fast Jazz

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Le Basque • Marin Marais (1656-1728)
This Is My Father’s World • English melody
Pipe Up! • R. Hepola, 2007

Hear HepTones at the Wausau Festival of Arts in Wausau, Wisconsin in September of 2010

Hear HepTones at Tubonium8, a regional conference of the International Tuba Euphonium Association at Gutavus Adolphus College, Saint Peter, Minnesota in March of 2011

HepTones is an outgrowth of Ralph’s classical and jazz solo performances
Solo performances in the Twin Cities Area with various ensembles

Community TV 15 & 96 In Performance - "reaching 13,000+ cable TV homes", St. Louis Park, suburban Minneapolis, Minnesota

Over the Back Fence Radio Show with a broadcast audience of 50,000 on KFIL in southern Minnesota’s Bluff Country

Walker Art Center in Minneapolis

The Tuba Concerto of British composer Ralph Vaughan Williams, recorded and also performed live on the radio in Switzerland

Ralph soloed with Northwestern University Jazz Ensemble I, which twice won Best Big Band at the Notre Dame Jazz Festival

Ralph Hepola, Minneapolis & Saint Paul, Minnesota
e-mail: info@ralphhepola.com • telephone: (651) 488-1144