Photo By Staff Sgt. Chris Branagan Members of the U.S. Army Band’s Brass Quintet play during the Tuba Euphonium Conference last week.

The conference typically attracts 600 to 800 people a year, said Palmire. Unfortunately, attendance at the four-day conference was affected somewhat by the cancellation of the final concert Saturday at Kenmore Middle School due to snow.

The conference featured up and coming musicians as well as established names. Guests come from around the world, including four representatives from a German army band and a group of international musicians in the Cuidado Tango Band, which brought along its own dancers for a demonstration on the periphery of the Loboda Studio stage inside Joint Base Myer-Henderson Hall’s Brucker Hall.

The conference is meant to appeal to a wide range of people, Palmire said, including college musicians, local professionals, clinicians, amateur enthusiasts and high school students thinking about going to college for music. ‘‘It’s a wide-ranging group,” he said, adding that the conference had received positive feedback on the Army Band Web site.

Staff Sgt. Thomas Bratten, a tuba player with the Army Concert Band and a conference organizer, said the group music readings were popular events. In this setting, amateur musicians from the audience can play with professional musicians en masse by following along on sheet music. ‘‘We’ve had musicians on stage ranging from 9- to 10-year-olds to someone who was 80 plus,” said Bratten.

Ken Carlson, an engineer From Montgomery Village, Md., and amateur musician who plays the tuba with a Dixieland band in Rockville, has attended the conference for the past eight years.

‘‘I never had any formal musical education, and I always learn a lot of things at the conference,” he said.

Brian Beverly, a mechanical engineer took time off from work in Baltimore to come and attend.

Beverly said this is his third year attending the conference. He said he has fond memories of seeing the Canadian Brass perform last year. This year he was taken with the performance of Carol Jantsch.

Palmire said Jantsch, 22,is noted for being the first women to play tuba for a major symphony orchestra. She’s been with the Philadelphia Orchestra since 2006.

Rich Sterner is a high school principal from Gettysburg, Penn., who plays semi-professionally in a brass quintet.

‘‘I come to soak up the information and learn. As a history teacher I never got a lot of this,” he said, gesturing to MU1 Bonnie Denton of the U.S. Coast Guard Band, who was delivering a lecture on ensemble playing.

As a euphonium player, Palmire is partial to the euphonious sound his brass emits. ‘‘I’ve always been attracted to the sound of the instrument,” he said. ‘‘There are so many different tones and colors you can get from it. It has the widest range of any wind instrument.”