Tag: tuba-euphonium quartet

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So if you’re in and/or around Morris, MN this coming Friday night, swing by the Humanities Fine Arts Recital Hall on the campus of The University of Minnesota, Morris to hear Four on the Floor, a new tuba-euphonium quartet. I’m playing first euph, and we’re doing everything from a Bach fugue to Duke Ellington to an…interesting take on Rossini.

We’ll also be giving the world premiere of my new work Minnesota Movements. How can you pass up an opportunity to hear a piece that contains a movement named “Last Tango in Bemidji?”

WF

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So I’ve got this euphonium now, and want to start a quartet. What’s some good recent (1990-later) quartet literature? I have found this, which is all the Grade 1 (highest) Texas State tuba-euphonium quartets, I get the feeling there are many, many more.

Also: If any euphoniumists are within, say, 60-90 minutes of Morris, MN, CONTACT ME. I believe I have a tubist or two, but I need another euphoniumist for the quartet.

WF

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Been a while since I’ve done one of these.

As regular visitors to this little popsicle stand know, I’ll be teaching at the University of Minnesota Morris starting this fall. I’m quite excited about it, and have already been planning my first semester there. I’m about to completely overhaul how and what I teach; it feels good and right.

In addition, I am told by future colleagues that there may be a few performance opportunities. Put simply, I think I may be on the verge of forming a new tuba-euphonium quartet. This makes me very happy, for as Berio (after Beckett) put it in the third movement of the Sinfonia for 8 voices and orchestra (a piece that I can finally start listening to again, only a year after finishing my dissertation), there’s “nothing more restful than chamber music.” I played in a quartet all through my undergraduate years as well as one year of my MM.

So here’s a question for any quartet players out there – what literature do you like? It has been over 15 years since I’ve regularly played, and I’m not up on the current rep.

WF