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 became the Principal Tuba Player of the Fairfax Symphony Orchestra in 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 (2019) and the first prize at the Northeast Regional Tuba and Euphonium Conference solo competition (2016). He has soloed with the Florida Atlantic University Band and 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.