Adjudicator Panels

Adjudicator Panels

I would like to welcome you to the adjudication area of the Falcone Festival. You will find that we invite only highly successful teachers and performers who are dedicated to the furthering of the tuba and euphonium to adjudicate both at the preliminary and festival rounds. Great care is taken during each step of the competition to make sure that only the highest standards are upheld, both by the judges and the contestants. Good luck to all!

~ Martin Erickson

2024 Festival Preliminary Round Adjudicators | 2024 Festival Semi-Final and Final Round Adjudicators

2024 Festival Semi-Final and Final Round Adjudicators

DR. MARK COX Professor of Tuba and Euphonium, Central Michigan University; Yamaha Artist

MARTY ERICKSON Principal E-flat tuba, Brass Band of Battle Creek; associate artist, Rodney Marsalis Philadelphia Big Brass; Principal Tuba, Fox Valley Symphony, performs with the Millennium Brass; retired faculty, Lawrence University Appleton, WI; clinician for Eastman-Shires-Willson Band Instrument Company

DR. JAMIE LIPTON Professor of Low Brass, Director of the Brass Band, Henderson State University (Arkadelphia, AR); Principal Euphonium, Natural State Brass Band (Little Rock, AR); Euphoniumist, Trio di Velluto; Willson Performing Artist

DR. MATTHEW MIRELES Chair of the Department of Music, Director of Bands, Professor of Euphonium & Tuba, St. Mary’s University (San Antonio, TX); Music Director & Conductor, San Antonio Brass Band & Backburner Tuba-Euphonium Collective

DR. MATTHEW MURCHISON performer, composer, arranger, educator, conductor, producer; Adjunct Instructor of Low Brass, Cornell University

PHILIP SINDER Professor of Tuba and Euphonium, Michigan State University College of Music; Principal Tuba, Lansing Symphony Orchestra; founding member, Brass Band of Battle Creek; Valade Teaching Fellow, Interlochen Arts Camp

DR. WILLIAM SUTTON Assistant Professor of Music, Northwest Missouri State University; summer faculty, New England Music Camp (Maine)

DR. REMUS WEBB Associate Professor of Music, Albany (Georgia) State University

DR. BETHANY WIESE, our guest artist

2024 Festival Preliminary Round Adjudicators

Euphonium Artist Division

Roger Behrend • Principal/Solo Euphonium, US Navy Band (retired)

Mark Jenkins • Principal Euphonium, US Marine Band, Washington DC; Adjunct Professor, Euphonium, George Mason University

Dr. Gail Robertson • Associate Professor, Tuba & Euphonium, University of Central Arkansas

Dr. Matthew van Emmerik • Shires and Eastman Low Brass Artist; Conductor; Clinician

Tuba Artist Division

Willie Clark • Lecturer, Tuba & Euphonium, University of Maryland School of Music

Dr. Chris Combest • Associate Professor, Tuba & Director, Graduate Studies, Middle Tennessee State University

Rainer Huss • Principal Tuba, Vienna Radio Symphony Orchestra

Don Little • Regents Professor, Tuba & Euphonium, University of North Texas

Euphonium Student Division

Natália Coimbra • Principal Euphonium, Minas Gerais (Brazil) Military Firefighters Symphonic Band

Dr. Sarah Miller • Associate Professor, Trombone & Associate Director, Cougar Marching Band, Washington State University

Dr. Gail Robertson • Associate Professor, Tuba & Euphonium, University of Central Arkansas

Dr. William Sutton • Assistant Professor, Music, Northwest Missouri State University

Tuba Student Division

Dr. Dan Burdick • Pioneering Queer Brass Artist; Instructor, Euphonium & Tuba, State College of Florida

Dr. Paul Carlson • Associate Professor, Tuba & Euphonium, Grand Valley State University

Cristina Cutts Dougherty • Principal Tuba, Phoenix Symphony

Dr. Scott Roeder • Professor, Tuba & Euphonium, University of Texas Rio Grande Valley

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