2021 Festival Required Music
For All Divisions 

Lists of required music by division (below)
Euphonium Artist | Tuba Artist | Euphonium Student | Tuba Student
Click here for a pdf version of the list

All music is available at Hickey's Music Online unlessotherwise indicated.
These are the links you can use to order music from Hickey's:
Euphonium Artist | Tuba Artist | Euphonium Student | Tuba Student

Festival Dates: August 6-9, 2021

EUPHONIUM ARTIST

Preliminary Round (record with CD accompaniment)

FLOW by Benjamin Dean Taylor (Available online)

Semi-Final Round (unaccompanied)

Stutter Step by Benjamin Horne (Pinnacle Brass)
  - AND -
Melodious Etudes for Trombone trans. by Johannes Rochut (Carl Fischer)
  Book 3: Etude 92

Semi-Final Round (accompanied)

Rangitoto by Goff Richards (Studio Music)

Final Round (with piano) 

Turbulence, Tide and Torque by Peter Graham (Gramercy Music)

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TUBA ARTIST

Preliminary Round (record unaccompanied)

Unaccompanied Suites, BWV 1007-1012 by J.S. Bach/Sauer transcribed for tuba (Cherry Classics)
  “Prelude” (Suite II, p.8)
   - AND –
Sweet Dances by Elizabeth Raum (Cimarron Music Press)
  #1 “Blew Tango” and #2 “Dot Polka”

Semi-Final Round (unaccompanied)

Capriccio for Solo Tuba by Krzysztof Penderecki (Schott)
   - AND –
Unaccompanied Suites, BWV 1007-1012 by J.S. Bach/Sauer transcribed for tuba (Cherry Classics)
  “Sarabande” (Suite V, p.32)

Semi-Final Round (accompanied)

Concertino for Tuba by Eugene Bozza (Alphonse Leduc)
  Movements 1 & 2 ONLY

Final Round (with band)

Dialogue for Tuba & Band by Shawn Okpebholo (Online at: Available online)

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EUPHONIUM STUDENT

NOTE: There is an age limit for the student divisions. For the 2021 Festival, a participant who will be 20 years old
or older on December 1, 2021 is NOT ELIGIBLE to apply in either student division. There are no exceptions.

Preliminary Round (record unaccompanied)

Sonata for Euphonium by Fred L. Clinard Jr. (Shawnee Press)

Semi-Final Round (unaccompanied)

In Modo Humano* by Thomas Rüedi (Thomas Rüedi Music Productions)
  - AND -
Characteristic Study #7 by Arban/Bowman/Alessi (Encore)

Semi-Final Round (accompanied)

Mephisto Masque by Edmond Dédé/arr. D. Werden (Cimarron Music Press)

Final Round (with piano) 

Sonata for Euphonium “Child's Play” by Barbara York (Cimarron Music Press)

* Winner, 2020 Solo Works Competition

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TUBA STUDENT

NOTE: There is an age limit for the student divisions. For the 2021 Festival, a participant who will be 20 years old
or older on December 1, 2021, is NOT ELIGIBLE to apply in either student division. There are no exceptions.

Preliminary Round (record unaccompanied)

Impromptus for Solo Tuba by Robert Muczynski (G. Schirmer)
  Movements 1 & 3 ONLY
   - AND –
Song-tudes by James Stephenson (Stephenson Music)
  #1 “Mission Augustus” & #22 “Re-treat”

Semi-Final Round (unaccompanied)

Climate Strike* by Evan Zegiel (Cimarron Music Press)

Semi-Final Round (accompanied)

Suite for Tuba by Vaclav Nelhybel (Cimarron Music Press)
NOTE: Errata sheet pdf for download

Final Round (with piano)

Scenes from the Andalusia by Elizabeth Raum (Cimarron Music Press)

* Winner, 2020 Solo Works Competition

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