Brazilian-born musician Joseph Augusto Guimaraes immigrated to the United States at age nine and began musical studies at eleven. He joined the United States Navy Band, the premier wind ensemble of the U.S. Navy, in 2020 and earned the position of Enlisted Conductor with the organization in 2025.
Additionally, he is the principal tubist of the Fairfax Symphony Orchestra, a position he won in the Fall of 2021. He has collaborated as a guest tubist with the Philadelphia Orchestra and the Baltimore Symphony Orchestra. Guimaraes earned the silver medal at the Leonard Falcone International Euphonium and Tuba Festival artist division competition and the first prize at the Northeast Regional Tuba and Euphonium Conference solo competition. He has soloed with the United States Navy Band, the Florida Atlantic University Band, the FAU Orchestra, the Blue Lake Festival Band, and the James Madison University Brass Band, and appeared as a featured artist with the Lynn University Wind Ensemble.
He served as the Principal Tuba Fellow for the Pacific Music Festival Orchestra in Sapporo, Japan, and the Chautauqua Music Festival Orchestra in Chautauqua, New York. Guimaraes dedicated more than a decade to the marching arts, competing as a member of the Spirit from Jacksonville State University Drum and Bugle Corps and marching with and teaching the Cadets Drum and Bugle Corps.
Guimaraes maintains an active recital schedule, with recent performances during the U.S. Army Band’s Tuba and Euphonium Workshop and the Midwest Regional Tuba and Euphonium Conference.
He held short-term visiting lecturer appointments at the Yale School of Music and Appalachian State University’s Hayes School of Music. Guimaraes has adjudicated the artist division of the Leonard Falcone International Competition, the Sphinx Orchestral Partners Audition in Detroit, Michigan, the U.S. Navy Band/Sphinx Orchestral Partners Audition Intensive in Washington, D.C., and for the USBands competition circuit.