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Scott Choate also advanced.

There were roughly 80 tuba players in the first round. One strange thing, there were two rooms going on at the same time, which means two different committees. But it was just a time thing, they were under a major time crunch

The excerpts asked in the first round:
Symphonic Metamorphosis
Fountains
Mahler 1 (held out the whole way!)
Prokofiev 5
Ride

(not the right order...)

They narrowed it down to 9.

Steve Campbell
Seth ?? (I think from Curtis)
Zach Collins
Craig Sutherland
Mike Forbes
Charles Ortega
Carson McTeer
Scott Choate
(I think) Matt Lyons (is that right?)

On Wednesday, the excerpts asked were:

Meistersinger (solo)
Fountains
Symphonic Metamorphosis
Quasi Sightreading - Bruckner 7 - P-S (sightreading because that particular excerpt wasn't asked...whatever)

Four advanced
Steve Campbell
Seth
Zach Collins
Craig Sutherland

Since I wasn't one of them, that is all I can tell you. But I can tell you...

Steve Campbell won the job
and Seth (again, I think he is the young man from Curtis) was runner up.

Congrats Steve...

What equipment did these guys use in the finals? I know two of the final four had 6/4s. Were they all big tubas? What about Fs?

Does anyone else find it odd that the F/Eb tuba was basically ignored for the entire audition?

Congrats to all

Congrats to Steve!

Jarrod wrote:Does anyone else find it odd that the F/Eb tuba was basically ignored for the entire audition?

Congrats to all

Sounds like a tuba player talking there

Jarrod wrote:Does anyone else find it odd that the F/Eb tuba was basically ignored for the entire audition?

Mahler 1 and Meistersinger?

I wasn't trying to sound negative. I didn't even go to the audition, so I'm not complaining, for those of you who may see it that way. I just thought it was odd.

The last post brings up an interesting point. How many people play Meistersinger on F/Eb tuba??

I've never heard of too many people doing it, although I think that it's easier that way.

Jarrod wrote: How many people play Meistersinger on F/Eb tuba??

I do. Not because it's 'easier', but because that's what it was written for.

I too play the soli from Meistersinger on F. If played convincingly enough, it can fool even the trained ear. I had Pokorny tell me that was some of the lightest CC tuba playing he'd ever heard when I played it for him. Then, I told him it was F tuba.

I noticed that there was a lack of "F" excerpts asked. I think this is more an indicator of what the job might entail. Correct me if I'm wrong, but one would only use the F tuba about 20-30% of the time, at most in an orchestra job. If this is indeed the case (and I'm sure someone will get out their excerpt book and figure out what percentage of pieces would be feasible to play on F tuba, when they should be sitting in the practice room), then maybe it's realistic to have less emphasis on the F tuba in auditions. As tubists, we make our livings playing low.. not high. One needs to have at least nice solid minimal 4 octave range, but it's rare that you'll ever use it.

Just my thoughts...

Seth Horner is currently attending Curtis

http://www.freewebs.com/curtisbones/cur ... alumni.htm