2014 Festival Required Music
For All Divisions

Euphonium Artist | Tuba Artist | Euphonium Student | Tuba Student

EUPHONIUM ARTIST

Preliminary Round (recorded with piano accompaniment)

Partita, Op. 89 – Arthur Butterworth (Comus Publications)
   Complete work

 Semi-Final Round (unaccompanied)

Soliloquies – John Stevens (Tuba-Euphonium Press)

 Semi-Final Round (accompanied)

Vintage – David Gillingham (Tuba-Euphonium Press)

 Final Round (with band)

Symphonic Variants – James Curnow (Curnow Music Press)
Due to performance time constraints and in concordance with Jim Curnow's wishes, the Festival Board will use the printed "Optional Cuts" listed in the Symphonic Variants piano score. You may download a pdf with these cuts HERE. There will NOT be a new edition published by the publisher or the composer with the cuts already in. (The music can be found either at Hickey's Music, or many other sheet music retailers. Ordering information: Hal Leonard Publishing order number HL 44003377 ISBN: 9789043127714.)

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TUBA ARTIST

Preliminary Round (recorded with piano accompaniment)

Concerto for Tuba – Alexander Arutiunian (Editions BIM)
   1st & 3rd Movements

 Semi-Final Round (unaccompanied)

Triumph of the Demon Gods – John Stevens (Manduca Music Publishers)
      - AND -
Partita in A minor, BWV 1013 J.S. Bach/Tinkham (Cimarron Music)
   Sarabande & Bouree ONLY

 Semi-Final Round (accompanied)

Chaconne – Paul Hayden (Magnolia Music Press)

 Final Round (with piano)

Concerto for Tuba and Strings – Arild Plau (Ovation)
   Complete work

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EUPHONIUM STUDENT

NOTE: There is an age limit for the student divisions. Participants must not have reached their 20th birthday prior to December 1 of the Festival year. For the 2014 Festival, applicants who were born on December 1, 1994, or later (meaning since that date), may apply in the student divisions. Applicants born BEFORE December 1, 1994, must apply in the artist divisions

Preliminary Round (recorded with piano accompaniment)

Morceau Symphonique – Félix-Alexandre Guilmant (Warner Brothers)

 Semi-Final Round (unaccompanied)

Transcendental Etudes (for Trumpet) – Theo Charlier (Alphonse Leduc)
   Etude No. 2
      - AND -
Complete Vocalises for Trombone – Marco Bordogni/Mulcahy (Encore Music)
   Etude No. 29

 Semi-Final Round (accompanied)

Characteristic Studies for Cornet – Herbert L. Clarke (Carl Fisher)
   "Debutante"

 Final Round (with piano)

Concerto for Trombone and Orchestra – Gordon Jacob (Galaxy)
   1st & 3rd Movements

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TUBA STUDENT

NOTE:There is an age limit for the student divisions. Participants must not have reached their 20th birthday prior to December 1 of the Festival year. For the 2014 Festival, applicants who were born on December 1, 1994, or later (meaning since that date), may apply in the student divisions. Applicants born BEFORE December 1, 1994, must apply in the artist divisions

Preliminary Round (recorded with piano accompaniment)

Adagio and Allegro – Telemann/Friedman (Southern Music)

 Semi-Final Round (unaccompanied)

Suite for Unaccompanied Tuba – Walter Hartley (Theodore Presser)
   Complete work with repeat in 4th movement
      - AND -
70 Studies for BBb Tuba – Vladislav Blazevich (Robert King)
   Book 1, No. 9

 Semi-Final Round (accompanied)

Sonatina for Tuba and Piano – Halsey Stevens (Peer Music)
   1st & 2nd Movements

 Final Round (with piano)

Sonata – Thomas Beversdorf (Hal Leonard)
   1st & 2nd Movements

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March 31...Application Deadline
Early May...Semi-Finalists Notified
August 8-11...Festival Competition

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