2022 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 Required Music list including Errata UPDATED 6/16/2022
Please note: ERRATA for this Festival's music included in the list below
Click here for a pdf version of just the ERRATA for this Festival's music UPDATED 6/16/2022

All music is available at Hickey's Music Online unless otherwise 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 5-8, 2022

EUPHONIUM ARTIST

Preliminary Round (record with piano)

Concertino by Rolf Wilhelm (entire work) (TRIO Blasermusik Edition)
ERRATA: There are several published editions of this work with different tempo markings throughout the work. The adjudicators will be made aware of this issue as they judge the performances. Please use whichever published markings you are most comfortable with for your performance.

Semi-Final Round (unaccompanied)

Modal Suite by Kayla Roth (Cimarron Music Press)

Semi-Final Round (accompanied)

Vintage by David Gillingham (C. Alan Publication)

Final Round (with band)

Amethyst Concerto by Sebastian Quesada (entire work) (IMBrassworks)

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TUBA ARTIST

Preliminary Round

Variations in an Olden Style by Thomas Stevens (Editions Bim)
  record with piano
   - AND -
Front Lines by Laura Karpman
  record unaccompanied (download available)

Semi-Final Round (unaccompanied)

Three Furies for Solo Tuba by James Grant (Potenza Music)
  Fury II & Fury III ONLY

Semi-Final Round (accompanied)

Concertino for Tuba by Rolf Wilhelm (Strube Verlag)
  Movements 1 & 2 ONLY

Final Round (with piano)

Retratos by Vinicio Meza (Cimarron Music Press)
   - AND -
Silhouette by John Harmon (Nichols Music Co.)

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EUPHONIUM STUDENT

NOTE: There is an age limit for the student divisions. For the 2022 Festival, a participant who will be 20 years old
or older on December 1, 2022 is NOT ELIGIBLE to apply in either student division. There are no exceptions.

Preliminary Round (record with piano)

Midnight Euphonium by Goff Richards (Studio Music)
   - AND -
Allegro Spiritoso by Jean Baptiste Senaille/Falcone (Southern Music)

Semi-Final Round (unaccompanied)

Flagship Portraits by Frank Gulino (Cimarron Music Press)
  - AND -
Characteristic Study #3 by Arban/Bowman/Alessi (Encore)

Semi-Final Round (accompanied)

Sonatina for Euphonium and Piano by Charles Ingram (Cimarron Music Press)

Final Round (with piano) 

Fantasy for Euphonium and Piano by Elena Roussanova (available from composer)
ERRATA: There are TWO versions of this work that have been published. Please use the Second Edition version. This version is published by Russa Nova Publishers. Please DO NOT use the First Edition, which was published by Denis Wick Publication.

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TUBA STUDENT

NOTE: There is an age limit for the student divisions. For the 2022 Festival, a participant who will be 20 years old
or older on December 1, 2022, is NOT ELIGIBLE to apply in either student division. There are no exceptions.

Preliminary Round

Air and Bourée by J. S. Bach/Bell (Carl Fisher)
  record with piano
   - AND -
Blue Grace by Claire Sievers (Cimarron Music Press)
  record unaccompanied
ERRATA: According to composer Claire Sievers, the articulation in measures 58-64 should mirror what is written in measures 31-34; the part marking is inconsistent. The performer may choose to adopt either interpretation; there will be no deductions by judges.

Semi-Final Round (unaccompanied)

Whale Songs by Lynn Blake John (Cimarron Music Press)

Semi-Final Round (accompanied)

Lamento by Sofia Gubaidulina (Sikorski)
ERRATA: In the second-to-last measure the tuba part has a ‘B natural” for 12 notes and the piano part has it for only 1 note. Either way will be acceptable for the competition; there will be no deductions by judges. Image of the significant part is linked here.

Final Round (with piano)

Tuba Concerto by Edward Gregson (Novello)
  Movements 1 & 2 ONLY

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In the second-to-last measure the tuba part has a ‘B natural” for 12 notes and the piano part has it for only 1 note. Either way will be acceptable for the competition; there will be no deductions by judges.