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Eligibility requirements (all competitions):
Competition Eligibility (all competitions, revised 1/16/07): The participant must not be a full time paid professional (tuba, euphonium, or trombone) in either a performance position or a college teaching position. There is no maximum age limit. Participants may be of any race, sex, or nationality. Registration deadline for all competitions is April 13.
Euphonium Military Band Audition Competition
When: Saturday 8-10 am
Registration and fees: see Conference Registration Form
Prize (first place only): $250
Criteria: performance of prepared excerpts and sightreading
Prepared Repertoire*:
- 1) Gustav Holst: Second Suite for Military Band in F Major (Boosey & Hawkes ed.)
- Mvt. I- Beginning to rehearsal B; pick-ups to E to G
- 2) P. I. Tchaikovsky: Finale from Symphony #4 (arr. Safranek)
- Measures 1-8 and rehearsal C to D
- 3) Arnold Schoenberg: Theme and Variations
- Variation V, mm. 148-169
- 4) Arthur Sullivan: Pineapple Poll
- No.1 Opener, mm. 5-45 and 4 measures before rehearsal 2 to one measure before rehearsal 6
- 5) Percy Grainger: English Waltz from Youthful Suite
- Measures 25-45 and pick-up to measure 139 to measure 163
- 6) Claude T. Smith: Festival Variations
- Measures 47-64
Measures 274-306&
- 7) Sightreading: to be determined by judging panel
*Note: Excerpts are the same as those included in the 2/12/07 US Navy Band Audition (.pdf file)
Tuba Orchestra Audition Competition
When: Saturday, 4/21, 8-10 am
Registration and fees: see Conference Registration Form
Prize (first place only): $250
Criteria: performance of prepared excerpts and sight-reading
Prepared Repertoire*
- 1. Wagner: Overture to Meistersinger
- opening to Letter A - Letter J to L
- 2.Wagner: Ride of the Walkure
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- 3. Mahler: Symphony No. 1
- opening of Mov't 3
- 4. Berlioz: Hungarian March
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- 5. Berlioz: Symphony Fantastique
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- 6. Stravinsky: Petrouchka
- solo at rehearsal number 100
- 7. Prokofiev: Symphony No. 5
- First movement, No. 3 to 2 bars before no. 6
- 8. Hindemith: Symphonic Metamorphosis
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- Sight-reading: if needed, to be determined by judging panel
*Note: For help locating excerpts, contact Chris Vivio, cvivio@memphis.edu
Tuba-Euphonium Quartet Competition
When: Semi-finals- Friday 4/20 ,2-5pm; Finals-Sat. 4/21 , 11 am-Noon
Registration and fees: see Conference Registration Form
Prize (first place only): $400
Criteria: performance of required music
Required Music
- 1. Required: Sheep May Safely Graze, J.S. Bach/arr. G. Robertson
- available from Tuba- Euphonium Press (www.tubaeuphoniumpress.com)
- 2. Required: Canzone, Giovanni Gabrielli- (arr. Melton)
- for tuba-euphonium quartet (Canzone per Sonare #4); available from Tuba-Euphonium Press
- Performers’ Choice
- 2 contrasting, single movement works up to 6 minutes duration each, demonstrating musicality and stylistic versatility.
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