Competitions

Applications Open: March 1st, 2024
Applications Due: April 15th, 2024  EXTENDED: NEW DEADLINE, APRIL 22 
Fee: $30 per competitor or group per competition

For each competition:22

  • 1st prize: $300
  • 2nd prize: 150
  • 3rd prize: $75
  • Some competitions have additional prizes (sheet music, discounted event registrations, etc) These will be announced soon!

For Eligibility and Repertoire use the tabs below.

First round for each solo competition will be unaccompanied; we will provide accompanists for the final round (unless competitors bring their own)

Euphonium Artist Solo Competition

Eligibility

Must not be a professional musician (tuba or euphonium) or music educator at the collegiate level

If you were invited to perform as a recitalist at this conference, you are ineligible to compete in this category.

Repertoire

Round 1

The Hispanic Euphonium by Eduardo Nogueroles (Potenza Music Publishing)
NOTE: Requires compensating 3rd slide to be removed)

OR

Rabecando by Fernando Deddos (Potenza Music Publishing)

Round 2

Concerto for Euphonium, Mvt 1 ONLY, by Martin Ellerby (Studio Music Company)

OR

Sonata for Euphonium by John Reeman (Studio Music Company)

Tuba Artist Solo Competition

Eligibility

Must not be a professional musician (tuba or euphonium) or music educator at the collegiate level.

If you were invited to perform as a recitalist at this conference, you are ineligible to compete in this category.

Repertoire

Round 1

Triumph of the Demon Gods by John Stevens (Manduca Music Publications)

OR

Monolog nr 9 by Erland von Koch (Gehrmans Musikforlag)

Round 2

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

OR

Tuba Suite, Mvts. 1-4 ONLY by Gordon Jacob (Boosey and Hawkes Music Publishers)

Euphonium Young Artist Solo Competition

Eligibility

Must be 20 years old or younger on May 17, 2024

If you were invited to perform as a recitalist at this conference, you are ineligible to compete in this category.

Repertoire

Round 1

Euph’tudes No.13 “Slowly & singing–a la Grainger” ONLY by Phil Snedecor (PAS Music)

OR

Quiet Walk by André Waignein, from New Concert Studies for Euphonium, Vol 1 (De Haske)

Round 2

Sonata in F, Mvts. 1 & 2 ONLY by Benedetto Marcello/Adam Frey (Euphonium.com)

OR

Arioso and Allegro by Hector Fiocco arr. Childs/Wilby, (Rosehill Music)

Tuba Young Artist Solo Competition

Eligibility

Must be 20 years old or younger on May 17, 2024

If you were invited to perform as a recitalist at this conference, you are ineligible to compete in this category.

Repertoire

Round 1

The Mechanicals by Edmund Joliffe (Cimarron Music Press)

OR

Ricercar by Domenico Gabrieli / arr. R. Winston Morris

Round 2

Tennessee Journey by Barbara York (Cimarron Music Press)

OR

Sonatina (complete) – Jan Koetsier

Chamber Ensemble Competition

Eligibility

Must not be professional musicians or music educators at the collegiate level

If you were invited to perform as a chamber recitalist at this conference, you are ineligible to compete in this category.

Ensemble

3-6 players. No conductor.

Repertoire

Commissioned pieces, new arrangements, welcome and encouraged
Scores must be provided to judges prior to performance

Round 1

One work, not less than 4 minutes or more than 10 minutes in length

Round 2

Two works, not less than 10 minutes or more than 20 minutes in length

Mock Band Audition – Euphonium

Eligibility

Must not be a professional musician (tuba or euphonium) or music educator at the collegiate level

Repertoire

Round 1

Prepare the following excerpts:

  • Second Suite in F – Gustav Holst
    • Complete 1st movement
  • Stars and Stripes Forever – John Philip Sousa
    • Complete, no repeats
  • Festive Overture – Dmitri Shostakovich, arr. Hunsberger
    • Rehearsal 8 to 6 after 9; bar before rehearsal 21, to bar after rehearsal 23
  • Roman Carnival Overture – Hector Berlioz, arr. Safranek
    • Rehearsal 1 to Rehearsal 4
  • Toccata Marziale – Ralph Vaughn Williams
    • Beginning to Rehearsal 6

Round 2

Prepare the Following Excerpts (round 1 excerpts may also be called):

  • Theme and Variations – Arnold Schoenberg
    • Variation V complete
  • Festival Variations – Claude T. Smith
    • mm. 79-109
  • Russlan and Ludmilla Overture – Mikhail Glinka, arr. Winterbottom
    • Beginning to rehearsal 1
  • Colonial Song – Percy Grainger
    • mm. 21-45
  • Rolling Thunder – Henry Fillmore, ed. Frederick Fennell
    • Beginning to the down beat of the first ending

Mock Orchestra Audition – Tuba

Eligibility

Must not be a professional musician (tuba or euphonium) or music educator at the collegiate level

Repertoire

Round 1

Prepare the following excerpts:

  • Overture to Die Meistersinger – Richard Wagner
    • beginning to A, J-L
  • Hungarian March – Hector Berlioz
    • Rehearsal 20-1 after 21 (or rehearsal 4 to 1 after rehearsal 5 in Kalmus edition)
  • An American in Paris – George Gershwin
    • 4 after 67-68
  • Symphony No. 5, 1st Movement – Sergei Prokofiev
    • Rehearsal 3 to 3 before rehearsal 6, 6 after rehearsal 15-3 after rehearsal 17
  • Petrushka – Igor Stravinsky
    • Bear Solo, 3 after 100-4 before 101

Round 2

Prepare the following excerpts (round 1 excerpts may also be called):

  • Symphony No. 7, 4th mvt – Anton Bruckner
    • Rehearsal P-S
  • Romeo and Juliet – Hector Berlioz
    • Introduction
  • Symphony in D minor – Cesar Franck
    • 6 before N to 18 after N
  • Til Eulenspiegels lustige Streiche – Richard Strauss
    • 7 After 18 to 6 before 20, 4 after 37 to 4 before 38
  • Gotterdammerung – Richard Wagner
    • Trauermarsch – 10 measures at “gut gehalten” c minor section