2016 Festival Required Music
For All Divisions

Euphonium Artist | Tuba Artist | Euphonium Student | Tuba Student

EUPHONIUM ARTIST

Preliminary Round (recorded with piano accompaniment)

Milori Blue—Jonathan Newman (Potenza Music)
   Movements 2 & 3

 Semi-Final Round (unaccompanied-at the Festival, either piece may be performed first)

Cascades for Unaccompanied Euphonium—Allen Vizzutti (Editions BIM)
   Treble or Bass Clef version in Bb
      - AND -
Fantasie #2 in F minor—Georg Philipp Telemann (Carl Fischer)
   Complete work

 Semi-Final Round (accompanied)

Harlequin for Euphonium and Piano—Phillip Sparke (Anglo Music)

 Final Round (with band)

Crossroads—Brian Balmages (Potenza) available end of September

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TUBA ARTIST

Preliminary Round (recorded with piano accompaniment)

Sonata for Tuba and Piano—Bruce Broughton (Ludwig Masters)
   Movements 1 & 2

 Semi-Final Round (unaccompanied)

Salve Venere, Salve Marte—John Stevens (Editions BIM)

 Semi-Final Round (accompanied)

Sonata Capricciosa—Jeno Takacs (Doblinger)
   Complete work

 Final Round (with piano)

Sonata for Tuba and Piano—Anthony DiLorenzo (Art of Sound Music)
   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 2016 Festival, a participant who will be 20 years old or older on December 1, 2016, is NOT ELIGIBLE to apply in either student division.

Preliminary Round (recorded with piano accompaniment)

Mirror Lake—Edward Montgomery (Ludwig Music Publishing)

 Semi-Final Round (unaccompanied-at the Festival, either piece maybe performed first)

Dance Suite—Brian Israel (Theodore Presser)
      - AND -
No. 35 from Melodious Etudes, Book 1—Bordogni/Rochut (Carl Fischer))

 Semi-Final Round (accompanied-at the Festival, either piece maybe performed first)

Midnight Euphonium—Goff Richards (Studio Music)
     - AND -
Allegro Spiritoso—Senaille/Falcone (Southern Music)

 Final Round (with piano)

Fantasie Concertante—Jacques Casterede (Alphonse Leduc)

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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 2016 Festival, a participant who will be 20 years old or older on December 1, 2016, is NOT ELIGIBLE to apply in either student division.

Preliminary Round (recorded with piano accompaniment)

Six Studies in English Folksong—Ralph Vaughan Williams (Galaxy Music)
   Movements 1, 2, & 6
   - AND -
No. 30 from 70 Studies for BBb Tuba—Vladislav Blazhevich (Robert King)

 Semi-Final Round (unaccompanied-at the Festival, either piece may be played first)

Ten Blind Dates—James Grant (Potenza)
   No. 1 (p. 14), No. 4 (p. 18), & No. 5 (p. 19)
      - AND -
No. 9 from 43 Bel Canto Studies—Marco Bordogni (Robert King)

 Semi-Final Round (accompanied)

Suite in One Movement—Ben Miles (Potenza Music)

 Final Round (with piano)

Suite No. 1 for Tuba and Piano “Effie Suite”—Alec Wilder (Margun Music)
   Performance order: Movements 3, 6, 1, 5, & 4 (omit Movement 2)

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