Blaine Cunningham has served as principal tuba of Orchestra Iowa since 2010 and as the orchestra's librarian since 2012. Blaine can be heard on Orchestra Iowa's 2014 recording of Michael Daugherty's American Gothic. Other performance credits include the Des Moines Symphony, South Dakota Symphony, Dubuque Symphony, Waterloo/Cedar Falls Symphony, Sheboygan Symphony, Oshkosh Symphony, and the Northwest Arkansas Symphony. Blaine has performed as a featured soloist with Orchestra Iowa, Northwest Arkansas Symphony, Texas Woman’s University Wind Ensemble, University of Iowa Chamber Orchestra, University of Iowa Concert Band, and the Cedar Rapids Municipal Band. As an orchestra librarian, he has also worked with the Boston Symphony and the Nashville Symphony. Blaine studied tuba performance at the University of Arkansas, the University of Wisconsin - Madison, and the University of Iowa. His teachers include John Manning, John Stevens, and Benjamin Pierce.