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Results from the 2023 Falcone Festival
Euphonium Artist Division
GOLD: Hunter Bellows, Austin, TX, USA
SILVER: Anthony Gonzalez, Rio Grande City, TX, USAA
BRONZE: Sam McHenry, Enterprise, AL, USA
Tuba Artist Division
GOLD: Jorge Gauvin Caraballo, Eustis, FL, USA
SILVER: Daniel Oczko, Mount Prospect, IL, USA
BRONZE: Charley Pollard, Malibu, CA, USA
Euphonium Student Division
GOLD: Miguel Gonzales, Pearland, TX, USA
SILVER: Anthony "AJ" Genevro, Stillwater, OK, USA
BRONZE: Caleb J Alexander, San Antonio, TX, USA
Tuba Student Division
GOLD: Samuel Hernández Imbernón, Torrevieja, Alicante, Spain
SILVER: Mitch Brady, Raleigh, NC, USA
BRONZE: David Horn, Livingston, NJ, USA
Results from the 2024 Falcone Festival
Euphonium Artist Division
GOLD: Justin Weis, Franklin, WI, USA
SILVER: Chris Finch, Richardson, TX, USA
BRONZE: Kelley Ozier, Carrollton, GA, USA
Tuba Artist Division
GOLD: Jake Alford, Lexington, KY, USA
SILVER: Logan Wadley, Rochester, NY, USA
BRONZE: Ryan Lofland, Woodstock, GA, USA
Euphonium Student Division
GOLD: Will Claudius, Rushville, IL, USA
SILVER: David Burns, Springfield, KY, USA
BRONZE: Karla Torres, Dallas, TX, USA
Tuba Student Division
GOLD: Ryan Lamb, Youngstown, OH, USA
SILVER: Barrett Hoover, Wann, OK, USA
BRONZE: Zhaowei Qu, San Jose, CA, USA
2013 Festival Required Music
For All Divisions
Euphonium Artist | Tuba Artist | Euphonium Student | Tuba Student
Preliminary Round (recorded with piano accompaniment)
Helen Johnston: Carissima Mia, Complete with piano (Level Music Publishing)
NOTE: Suggested corrections to the printed part(s) (pdf)
Semi-Final Round (unaccompanied)
Torstein Aagaard-Nilsen: Svart Regn/Black Rain (Norsk Noteservice AS)
Semi-Final Round (accompanied)
Rolf Wilhelm: Concertino for Euphonium and Piano (Trio Musik Edition)
Movements 1 & 3
Final Round
John Stevens: Concerto for Euphonium (Editions Bim)
Movements 2 & 3
TUBA ARTIST
Preliminary Round (recorded with piano accompaniment)
Robert Spillman: Two Songs, Complete with piano (Edition Musicus)
NOTE: Suggested corrections to the printed part(s) (pdf)
Semi-Final Round (unaccompanied)
Benjamin Miles: Contraptions for Solo Tuba (Cimarron Music Press)
Movements 1, 2, 3, 5
Semi-Final Round (accompanied)
David Gillingham: Jabberwocky (available Fall 2012) (C. Allan Pub.)
AND
Jan Krzywicki: Ballade (Heilman Music)
Final Round
Roland Szentpali: Concerto for Tuba (Editions Bim)
Movements 2 & 3
EUPHONIUM STUDENT
NOTE: There is an age limit for the student divisions. Particpants must not have reached their 20th birthday prior to December 1 of the Festival year. For the 2013 Festival, applicants who were born on December 1, 1993, or later (meaning since that date), may apply in the student divisions. Applicants born BEFORE December 1, 1993, must apply in the artist divisions
Preliminary Round (recorded with piano accompaniment)
James Curnow: Rhapsody for Euphonium, Complete with piano (Rosehill Music)
Semi-Final Round (unaccompanied)
Steven Mead: Performance Studies (De Haske)
#1 Piet Swerts: Badinerie
#13 Allen Vizzutti: Fast and Rhythmic
#14 Martin Ellerby: La Danza Cubana
#15 Allen Vizzutti: Gateway Client
Semi-Final Round (accompanied)
Gordon Jacob: Fantasia (Boosey & Hawkes)
Final Round
Julius Klengel: Concerto No.1 in B-flat Major (TE Press)
AND
M. Paradise/Snell: Sicilienne (Rakeway Music/Kirklees Music)
TUBA STUDENT
NOTE:There is an age limit for the student divisions. Particpants must not have reached their 20th birthday prior to December 1 of the Festival year. For the 2013 Festival, applicants who were born on December 1, 1993, or later (meaning since that date), may apply in the student divisions. Applicants born BEFORE December 1, 1993, must apply in the artist divisions
Preliminary (recorded with piano accompaniment)
Donald Haddad: Suite for Tuba, Complete with piano (Shawnee Press)
Movements 1 & 3 (Play repeats in 3rd movement)
Semi-Final Round (unaccompanied)
Majorie A. Van Hoy: Seven Etudes for Tuba (TE Press)
Etudes 1, 2, 3, 4, 5
Semi-Final Round (accompanied)
Alexej Lebedev: Concerto in One Movement (Hofmeister)
Final Round
James Grant: Endorphins (Potenza Music)
AND
J. S. Bach/Jacobs: Sonata No. 2 in E-flat Major, BWV 1031 (Encore Music)
2nd Movement: Siciliano
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.)
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
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
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
2015 Festival Required Music
For All Divisions
Euphonium Artist | Tuba Artist | Euphonium Student | Tuba Student
EUPHONIUM ARTIST
Preliminary Round (recorded with piano accompaniment)
A La Suite Classique – Yasuhide Ito (Studio Music)
Movements 1, 2 (no repeats), 3, 7
Semi-Final Round (unaccompanied)
Insects for Solo Euphonium – Elena Lebedeva (Potenza Music)
Complete work
Semi-Final Round (accompanied)
Concerto for Baritone Horn – Martin Ellerby (Studio Music)
Movements 1 & 2
NOTE: This work should be performed on the Euphonium, however this is Ellerby's Concerto for Baritone and NOT the Concerto for Euphonium.
Final Round (with piano)
Diamond Concerto for Euphonium and Piano – Philip Sparke (Anglo Music)
Complete work
TUBA ARTIST
Preliminary Round (recorded with piano accompaniment)
Concerto for Tuba and Piano – Eric Ewazen (Southern Music)
Movement 1
Semi-Final Round (unaccompanied)
Canzonet – Claude Baker (Hal Leonard/Southern/LKM)
*Available September 2014
- AND -
Kaleidoscopes Volume 3 – Giles Senon (Billaudot)
Numbers 10, 12, 25
Semi-Final Round (accompanied)
Sonata for Tuba and Piano – Frank Lynne Payne (Shawnee Press)
Complete work
Final Round (with band)
Teutonic Tales – Robert W. Smith (CL Barnhouse)
Complete work
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 2015 Festival, applicants born BEFORE December 1, 1995, must apply in the artist divisions
Preliminary Round (recorded with piano accompaniment)
Morceau de Concours– J. E. Barat (Potenza Music)
Semi-Final Round (unaccompanied)
Cello Suite #2 – J. S. Bach (Barenreiter)
Prelude
- AND -
Selected Studies for Baritone – H. Voxman (Rubank)
Page 33
Semi-Final Round (accompanied)
Annie Laurie – A. W. Pryor/Geisler (Southern Music Company)
*Available September 2014
Final Round (with piano)
Euphonium Fantasy – Bruce Fraser (Euphonium.com)
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 2015 Festival, applicants who were born on December 1, 1995, or later (meaning since that date), may apply in the student divisions. Applicants born BEFORE December 1, 1995, must apply in the artist divisions
Preliminary Round (recorded with piano accompaniment)
Air and Bouree – J. S. Bach/Bell (Carl Fischer)
- AND -
Etude #9 – M. Bordogni/Rochut (Carl Fischer)
NOTE: Performed down one octave from the printed trombone edition
Semi-Final Round (unaccompanied)
Ricercar – D. Gabrieli/Morris (Shawnee Press)
- AND -
Fantasy Pieces #6 – Derek Bourgeois (Brass Wind Publications)
Semi-Final Round (accompanied)
Concertante Allegro – Alexey Lebedev (Friedrich Hofmeister)
Final Round (with piano)
Sonata for Tuba and Piano – Stephen Rush (Cimarron Music)
Complete work
