2024 Festival Required Music

For All Divisions 

Lists of required music by division (below)
      Play COMPLETE work unless otherwise noted
Euphonium Artist | Tuba Artist | Euphonium Student | Tuba Student

Click here for a pdf version of the Required Music list

Be sure that you prepare using the correct edition/publisher as identified below.

Refer to the new Recording Guidelines for the 2024 Festival to be certain that any video recording you ultimately submit for the competition is in accordance with those guidelines

Festival Dates: August 9-12, 2024

EUPHONIUM ARTIST

Preliminary Round (record with piano)

Sonatina for Euphonium and Piano, Mvts. 1 & 2 ONLY by Etienne Crausaz (Editions BIM) (Record with piano)
  – AND –
Cascades by Al Vizzutti (Editions BIM) (Record unaccompanied)
NOTE: We are aware of the different arrangements of the Vizzutti and will accept all versions of the work. Judges are aware of the different keys available, and will not penalize competitors.

Semi-Final Round (unaccompanied)

Rock Hopper by Gail Robertson (Cimarron Music Press)
  – AND –
The Hispanic Euphonium by Eduardo Nogueroles (Potenza Music Publishing)
NOTE: Requires compensating 3rd slide to be removed

Semi-Final Round (accompanied)

Concerto for Euphonium, Mvt. 1 “Fantasy” ONLY by Martin Ellerby (Studio Music Company)
  – AND –
Sonatina for Euphonium and Piano, Mvt. 3 ONLY by Etienne Crausaz (Editions BIM)

Final Round (with band)

Euphonium Concerto by Satoshi Yagisawa (De Haske Music)

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TUBA ARTIST

Preliminary Round (record with piano)

Sonata for Tuba and Piano, Mvts. 1 & 2 ONLY by Bruce Broughton (LudwigMasters Music)

Semi-Final Round (unaccompanied)

Triumph of the Demon Gods by John Stevens (Manduca Music Publications)
  – AND –
Partita In A Minor, BWV 1013, “Allemande” ONLY by J. S. Bach/Russell John Tinkham (Cimarron Music Press)

Semi-Final Round (accompanied)

Tuba Concerto, Mvt. 2 ONLY by Jennifer Higdon (Lawdon Press)

Final Round (with piano)

Tuba Sonata by Amanda Harberg (self-published)
  – AND –
Partita In A Minor, BWV 1013, “Sarabande” ONLY by J. S. Bach/Russell John Tinkham (Cimarron Music Press)

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EUPHONIUM STUDENT

NOTE: There is an age limit for the student divisions. For the 2024 Festival, a participant who will be 20 years old
or older on December 1, 2024 is NOT ELIGIBLE to apply in either student division. There are no exceptions.

Preliminary Round (record with piano)

Andante and Rondo by Antonio Capuzzi/Philip Catelinet (Edition Peters Music)

Semi-Final Round (unaccompanied)

Quatrille by Dario Argentesi (Cimarron Music Press)
  – AND –
Euph’tudes No.13 “Slowly & singing–a la Grainger” ONLY by Phil Snedecor (PAS Music)

Semi-Final Round (accompanied)

African Sky by Andrea Hobson (self-published)
  – AND –
Sonata in F, Mvts. 1 & 2 ONLY by Benedetto Marcello/Adam Frey (Euphonium.com)

Final Round (with piano) 

Fantasia by Gordon Jacob (Boosey & Hawkes Music)

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TUBA STUDENT

NOTE: There is an age limit for the student divisions. For the 2024 Festival, a participant who will be 20 years old
or older on December 1, 2024, is NOT ELIGIBLE to apply in either student division. There are no exceptions.

Preliminary Round (record with piano)

Introduction and Dance by J. Ed. Barat/Glenn Smith (Southern Music Company)
  – AND –
Suite for Unaccompanied Tuba by Walter Hartley (Theodore Presser Music) (Complete work with repeat in 4th movement)

Semi-Final Round (unaccompanied)

The Mechanicals by Edmund Joliffe (Cimarron Music Press)

Semi-Final Round (accompanied)

Tennessee Journey by Barbara York (Cimarron Music Press)

Final Round (with piano)

Introduction and Dance by Fernando Deddos (Cimarron Music Press) (Contrabass version ONLY)
  – AND –
Drei Leichte Stücke by Alexander Lebedev (Hofmeister)

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