compositions for the competition – tuba



1st category

1. round - obligatory composition:

  • Marco Bordogni - 43 Bel Canto Studies No. 7
    (Robert King Music / Alphonse Leduc Edition Musicales / Music for Brass No. 281)

2. round - obligatory composition:

  • Rodger Vaughan - Concertpiece No. 1

optional compositions (one composition for each round):

  • František Gregor - Concert Etude
    (in: V. Hoza: Škola pro tubu F a B, Editio Supraphon, Praha 1982)
  • Jonathan D. Green - When we were giants
  • Alec Wilder - "Effie" Suite (4th and 5th movement - Effie Joins the Carnival and Effie Goes Folk Dancing)
  • Pavel Staněk - Concertino semplice (1st and 2nd movement)
  • Jack Gallagher - Sonata breve (3 movements ad libitum)
  • Alexandre Tchérépnine - Andante pour Tuba et Piano
    (Edition M.P.Belaieff – Boosey& Hawkes, 1950)
  • Don Haddad - Suite for Tuba
    (Templeton Publishing, 1966)

2nd category

1. round - obligatory composition:

  • Marco Bordogni - 43 Bel Canto Studies No. 18
    (Robert King Music / Alphonse Leduc Edition Musicales / Music for Brass No. 281)

2. round - obligatory composition:

  • Johann Sebastian Bach, arr. Walter Hilgers - Sonata II in E flat major (1st and 2nd movement)
    (Editions Marc Reift, 1990, EMR231)

optional compositions (one composition for each round):

  • Alexej Lebedjew - Concerto for Tuba No. 1
    (Hofmeister Musikverlag)
  • Alexej Lebedjew - Concert Allegro
  • Edward Gregson - Concerto (1st movement)
  • Malcolm Arnold - Fantasy for Tuba
  • Henri Eccles - Sonata in G minor (1st and 2nd movement)
  • Jan Koetsier - Sonatina, op. 57 (1st and 2nd movement)
  • Vincent Persichetti - Serenade No. 12 for Solo Tuba
    (Elkan-Vogel Inc., 1963)
  • Thomas Stevens - Variations in Olden Style
    (Editions Bim, CH, TU8)
  • Thomas Stevens - Aria con variazioni
    (Éditions BIM, 2006)
  • Georg Phillip Telemann - Sonate No. 1 in G minor TWV 41:g3 (1st and 2nd movement)
    (download score here)
  • John Stevens - Suite No. 1 for Tuba Solo (1st,2nd,4th and 5th movement )
    (Manduca Music Publications, 1997)

3rd category

1. round - obligatory composition:

  • Vincenz Ranieri - 30 instructive and melodic exercises No. 2

2. round - obligatory composition:

  • Ralph Vaughan Williams - Concerto (1st movement)
    (Oxford University Press)

optional compositions (one composition for each round):

  • Jan Koetsier - Concertino op. 77 (1st and 3rd movement)
  • Edward Gregson - Concerto (1st and 2nd movement)
  • Bruce Broughton - Sonata (1st and 2nd movement)
  • Anthony Plog - Tuba Sonata (1st, 3rd and 4th movement)
    (Éditions BIM, 2007 - TU123)
  • Eric Ewazen - Concerto (1st and 2nd movement)
  • Jiří Pauer - Tubonetta
  • Georg Friedrich Händel arr. Jaroslav Peterský - Koncert č. 3 g moll
    (download score here)
  • Alexandre Arutiunian - Concerto (1st and 3rd movement)
    (Éditions BIM, 1993)
  • Barbara York - Through the Tunnel
  • Valery Strukow - Concerto (1st and 2nd movement)
    (Éditions BIM or Muzika, 1975, Sowiet Union)
  • Hubert Katzenbeier - Drei Spielstücke für Tuba solo
    (Verlag Neue Musik, 1983)

4th category

1. round - obligatory composition:

  • Andy Emler - Tubastone

2. round - obligatory composition:

  • Anthony O Toole - Hijinks
    (Cimarron Music Press)

optional compositions (one composition for each round):

  • William Kraft - Encounters II
    (Éditions BIM, 1991)
  • Krzysztof Penderecki - Capriccio
  • Edward Gregson - Alarum for Solo Tuba
  • Vincent Persichetti - Parable XXII for Tuba solo
  • Anthony Plog - Postcards V for solo Tuba
    (Editions Bim, CH, TU210)
  • Michael Forbes - The Grumpy Troll for solo Tuba
    (Editions Bim, CH, TU183)
  • John Stevens - Remembrance for Tuba alone
    (Editions Bim, CH, TU80)
  • John Stevens - Salve Venere, salve Marte
  • Milan Slavický - Echa pro sólovou tubu
    (Éditions BIM)
  • Jacques Castérede - Sonatine
  • John Stevens - Triumph of the Demon Gods
    (Manduca)
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