Competitions

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Recorded Preliminary Round (due 1/1/26):

Barnes - Symphony No. 3

• Beginning to mm. [34]

Sousa - The Stars and Stripes Forever (Both excerpts)

• Beginning to second ending

• Beginning to double bar

Vaughan Williams - Tocatta Marziale

• Beginning to 2 mm. after [5]

Live Round (including preliminary round excerpts) 

• Grainger - Lincolnshire Posy - 3rd Movement, "Rufford Park Poachers" 

  • • Pickups to [51] to 2 mm. after [83]

• Grantham - J'ai été au bal

  • • Pickups to [116] to [140]

• Hindemith - Symphony in B-flat

  • • [I] to [K] 

• Liszt/King - Mazeppa (both excerpts)

• Sousa - George Washington Bicentennial

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Recorded Preliminary Round (due 1/1/26):

Holst - Suite in F

• Pick-ups to [E] to 16 mm. after [F]

Holst - Chaconne from Suite in E-flat

• Pick-up to [A] to [C]

Day - Havana

• mm. 13 - 22

• mm. 40 - 52

Berlioz arr. Safranek - The Roman Carnival Overture

• [1] to [4]

Vaughan Williams - Tocatta Marziale

• Beginning to [6]

Live Round (can also include excerpts from the preliminary round): 

Williams trans. Lavender - Raiders March

• mm. 67 - 104 (take upper div.)

King - The Melody Shop (full)

Holst - The Planets (Band Version)

• Mars, [4] to 6 mm. after [4]

• Mars, solo to fermata

Grantham - J'ai eté au bal

• mm. 128 - 168

Schuman - When Jesus Wept

• Pick-up to mm. 77 - 102

Grainger - Colonial Song

• mm. 21 - 45

Mussorgsky arr. Ravel - Pictures at an Exhibition, IV. Bydlo

• 9 mm. before [38] to [39]

• [42] to 5 mm. after [44]

Giroux - The Sun Catcher

• mm. 300 - 328

Recorded Preliminary Round (due 1/1/26):

• Wagner - Overture to Die Meistersinger 

  • • [J] to [L]

• Berlioz - Hungarian March

  • • [4] to 4 mm. after [5]

• Prokofiev - Symphony no. 5, mvmt. 1

  • • [3] to [6]

Live Round (can also include excerpts from the preliminary round): 

• Berlioz - Symphonie Fantastique 

  • • mvmt. 5 (complete)

• Gershwin - An American in Paris

  • • 3 mm. after [67] to [68]

• Mahler - Symphony no. 1

  • • 4 mm. before [3] to 5 mm. after [3] 

• Prokofiev - Romeo and Juliet

  • •  6 mm. before [5] to [6]

• Revueltas - Sensemaya 

  • • [2] to [8] 

• Strauss - Till Eulenspiegel's Merry Pranks

  • • 7 mm. before [37] to 3 mm. before [38]

• Wagner - Die Walkure

  • • pickup to [11] to 4 mm. after [12]

Competitors must be 20 years of age or younger by the date of the final round, Friday March 6, 2026.

Recorded Preliminary Round (due 1/1/26):

• Low Etudes for Tuba, no. 18 (XVIII) - Phil Snedecor

Live Round: 

• Concert Allegro - A. Lebedev

• 70 Studies for BBb Tuba, Etude #30 ONLY - Vladislav Blazhevich

Recorded Preliminary Round (due 1/1/26):

• Low Etudes for Tuba, no. 4 (IV) - Phil Snedecor

Live Round:

• Concerto for Bass Tuba (movement I ONLY) - Ralph Vaughan Williams

• Twenty Characteristic Etudes, Etude #2 ONLY - Gregory Fritze 

  • • NOTE: tempo app. quarter = 116. All repeats first time, no repeats after DC

Competitors must be 20 years of age or younger by the date of the final round, Friday March 6, 2026.

Recorded Preliminary Round (due 1/1/26):

• C Minor Etude - Voxman (Bohme only, tempo approx quarter = 65)

Live Round: 

• Golden Hour - Cait Nishimura

• 25 Advanced Studies for Euphonium, Volume 1, Etude No. 1 ONLY - Kevin Day

Recorded Preliminary Round (due 1/1/26):

• Cello Suite no. 5, Sarabande - J.S. Bach

Live Round: 

• Concerto per Flicorno Basso - Amilcare Ponchielli, arr. Henry Howey (mm. 35-233)

This competition is open to any non-professional tuba or euphonium players who are looking for an opportunity to compete and perform. For questions of eligibility, please email NERTEC2026@iteaonline.org.

Recorded Preliminary Round: Bordogni/Bel Canto of choice (due 1/1/26)

Live Round Tuba: Suite for Tuba and Piano - Don Haddad

Live Round Euphonium: Rhapsody for Euphonium and Piano - James Curnow

Ensembles must include majority tuba and euphonium instruments and may be no less than 3 people in size. Each member must register individually for the preliminary competition.

Preliminary and live rounds repertoire may be selected by each ensemble, but may not extend past 15 minutes in length. Repertoire for preliminary and live rounds do not have to be the same.

Recorded Preliminary Round is due 1/1/26.