2011 Festival Required Music
For All Divisions
Euphonium Artist Division
Preliminary Round (record selection with piano)
James Niblock.............................. Concertino (Falcone Festival)
Semi-final Round (unaccompanied)
Torstein Aagaard-Nilsen................. Two Insects (Nordic Sounds)
Semi-final Round (accompanied)
Robert (Droste) Schumann............. Five Pieces in Folk Style Movements 1, 2 & 5 (Ludwig Music)
Final Round (with piano)
Derek Bourgeois........................... Concerto Op. 114-Trombone Concerto Movements 1 & 3 (G & M Brand Music Publishers)
Tuba Artist Division
Preliminary Round (record both selections; Shostakovich with piano)
Dmitri Shostakovich...................... Adagio from Limpid Stream (Bobo/Miettunen) (Encore Music Publishers)
AND
Verne Reynolds (Beauregard)......... 48 Etudes for French Horn (Tuba) Etude No. 41 (bmacmusic.com)
Semi-final Round (unaccompanied)
Robert Spillman............................ Four Greek Preludes Preludes 1, 2, & 4 (Edition Musicus)
Semi-final Round (accompanied)
Libby Larsen................................. Concert Piece (Oxford Press)
AND
Franz Strauss (R. Emilson)............. Nocturno, Op. 7 (Kendor Wilson)
Final Round (with Festival Band)
Libby Larsen................................. URSA, Concerto for Tuba and Band (libbylarsen.com)
Euphonium Student Division
Preliminary Round
Joseph Eduardo Barat................... Andante and Allegro (Southern Music)
Semi-final Round (unaccompanied)
G. P. Telemann............................. Fantasy in F Minor Fantasy 2 (Carl Fisher)
Arr Alan Raph: Observe repeats in movement 1; include stylistically appropriate ornamentation as desired.
Semi-final Round (accompanied)
Trygve Madsen............................. Sonata Op. 97, movements 2 & 3 (Musikk-Husets Forlag A/S, Oslo, Norway)
Final Round
Jules Demersseman...................... Premier Solo de Concert (Editions BIM)
Tuba Student Division
Preliminary Round
Gordon Jacob............................... Jacob Tuba Suite Suites 2, 3, 4, &6 (Boosey and Hawkes)
No repeats in movement 2 & 3; D.S. in movement 6
Semi-final Round (unaccompanied)
Vincent Persichetti......................... Serenade No. 12, Op. 88 movements 1, 2, 3, 5, & 6 (Theodore Presser)
Semi-final Round (accompanied)
Vaclav Nelhybel............................ Accompanied Music: Suite for Tuba, complete suite (Cimarron Music)
Final Round
Ralph Vaughan Williams................ Concerto for Bass Tuba in F minor movements 1 & 2 (Oxford Press)
2025 FESTIVAL DATES
March 31...Application Deadline
Early May...Semi-Finalists Notified
August 8-11...Festival Competition
Hosted by Blue Lake Fine Arts Camp
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