COMPETITIONS
The following competitions will be held at GPRTEC 2020:
Applications to compete will be due by March 1, 2020. There will be a $30 fee per entry (either solo or group).
For the solo competitions, the first round will be unaccompanied. Accompanists will be provided for the finalists, but competitors have the option to bring their own (this will not affect the competition fee in any way). Both the first and final rounds will be live at the Conference; there will be no prerecorded round.
In each solo competition, competitors will have two choices of repertoire for each round.
Prizes: Prize money will be awarded in each category, amounts TBD
Young Artist Euphonium
Eligibility: Must be 20 years old or younger on January 1, 2020
First Round Repertoire
Option A
Derek Bourgeois - Fantasy Pieces No. 5
and
Jean Baptiste Arban - Characteristic Study No. 8
Option B
J. S. Bach - Prelude from Cello Suite no. 2 in D Minor
and
Jacob de Haan - Echo Fantasia (from New Concert Studies vol. 1)
Final Round Repertoire
Option A
Lewis Buckley - An American Portrait
Option B
Donald H. White - Lyric Suite
Artist Euphonium
Eligibility: Must not be a professional musician (tuba or euphonium) or music educator at the collegiate level
First Round Repertoire
Option A
David Gillingham - Blue Lake Fantasies (movements 1&2 ONLY)
Option B
Fernando Deddos - Rabecando
Final Round Repertoire
Option A
Steve Darling - Concert Piece No. 1
Option B
John Reeman - Sonata for Euphonium
Young Artist Tuba
Eligibility: Must be 20 years old or younger on January 1, 2020
First Round Repertoire
Option A
Thomas Wooden - Canticle for Unaccompanied Tuba
Option B
Domenico Gabrieli / arr. R. Winston Morris - Ricercar
Final Round Repertoire
Option A
Ian Lester - Sonata for Contrabass Tuba (Hades: God of the Underworld)
Option B
Walter Hartley - Sonatina
Artist Tuba
Eligibility: Must not be a professional musician (tuba or euphonium) or music educator at the collegiate level
First Round Repertoire
Option A
Frank Lynn Payne - Six Bagatelles for Solo Tuba
Option B
James Grant - Not Your Normal Set of Etudes: 10 Blind Dates for Solo Tuba
Final Round Repertoire
Option A
Bruce Broughton - Turbulence
and
Barbara York - How Beautiful
Option B
Bernhard Heiden - Concerto (movements 2&3 ONLY)
Euphonium Mock Band Audition
Eligibility: Must not be a professional musician (tuba or euphonium) or music educator at the collegiate level
First Round Repertoire
Prepare the following excerpts:
Gustav Holst - Second Suite in F (1st movement)
John Philip Sousa - Stars and Stripes Forever (no repeats)
Dmitri Shostakovich / arr. Hunsberger - Festive Overture (rehearsal 8 to 6 after 9; bar before rehearsal 21 to bar after rehearsal 23)
Hector Berlioz / arr. Safranek - Roman Carnival Overture (rehearsal 1 to rehearsal 4)
Ralph Vaughan Williams - Toccata Marziale (beginning to rehersal 6)
Final Round Repertoire
Prepare the following excerpts (Preliminary Round Repertoire may be called as well):
Arnold Schoenberg - Theme and Variations (Variation V complete)
Claude T. Smith - Festival Variations (mm. 79-109)
Mikhail Glinka / arr. Winterbottom - Russlan and Ludmilla Overture (beginning to rehearsal 1)
Percy Grainger - Colonial Song (mm. 21-45)
Henry Fillmore / ed. Fennell - Rolling Thunder (beginning to downbeat of first ending)
Tuba Mock Orchestral Audition
Eligibility: Must not be a professional musician (tuba or euphonium) or music educator at the collegiate level
First Round Repertoire
Prepare the following excerpts:
Richard Wagner – Overture to Die Meistersinger von Nurnburg (beginning to A, J-L)
Hector Berlioz – Hungarian March from Damnation of Faust (rehearsal 20 to 1 after rehearsal 21, or rehearsal 4 to 1 after rehearsal 5 in Kalmus edition)
George Gershwin - American in Paris (4 after 67 to 68)
Sergei Prokofiev - Symphony no. 5, 1st movement (rehearsal 3 to 3 before rehearsal 6, 6 afer rehearsal 15 to 3 after rehearsal 17)
Igor Stravinsky – Petrouchka (Bear solo, 3 after 100 to 4 before 101)
Final Round Repertoire
Prepare the following excerpts (Preliminary Round Repertoire may be called as well):
Anton Bruckner – Symphony no. 7, 4th movement (P-S)
Hector Berlioz – Romeo and Juliet, introduction
Cesar Franck – Symphony in D minor, 3rd movement (6 before N to 18 after N)
Richard Strauss – Til Eulenspiegels lustige Streiche (7 after 18 to 6 before 20, 4 after 37 to 4 before 38)
Richard Wagner – Gotterdammerung: Trauermarsch (10 measures at “gut gehalten” c minor section)
Low Brass Chamber Music Competition
Eligibility: Members must not be professional musicians (tuba or euphonium) or music educators at the collegiate level
Ensemble: 3-6 players, no conductor. May be a mix of of any low brass (trb, euph, tuba). No more than 50% of the ensemble may be trombones
First Round Repertoire: one work between 4 and 10 minutes in length
Final Round Repertoire: two works totaling 10-20 minutes. Repertoire from Preliminary Round may NOT be repeated.