Martin Tousignant

Born in 1965 in Saginaw, Michigan and raised in Michigan's Upper Peninsula, Martin Tousignant began music studies at Central Michigan University in 1988 and completed a Bachelor's of Music Education at Northern State University (Aberdeen, South Dakota) in 1992. He taught elementary music, band, and chorus in South Dakota for two years before enlisting as an Army tuba player in 1994. Over a six year term he was assigned to bands at Ft. Rucker, Alabama, Camp Red Cloud, Korea, and Ft. Lewis, Washington. He wrote his first band arrangements and compositions for the Ft. Lewis Army band in 1999. Since 2001, he has carried U. S. mail in Herndon, Virginia and played tuba in various community bands and the Army National Guard. In 2009 he returned to the US Army as a Tuba player on a 3-year absence from the US Postal Service.

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