John Stevens Euphonium Concerto Premiere 9/27/05 Madison, WI

David Spies · Post by **David Spies** » Mon Sep 26, 2005 4:56 pm

From the Willson website (http://www.swissprofi.ch/willson/news.html):

DEG Willson and Dr. Brian Bowman have commissioned John Stevens to compose a concerto for euphonium and orchestra. The work will be premiered September 27, 2005 at 7:30 pm at Mills Hall on the University of Wisconsin-Madison campus by Dr. Brian Bowman and the UW-Madison symphony orchestra. Tentative future performances are planned at UW-Eau Claire and the 2006 U.S. Army Band Tuba and Euphonium Conference.

David Spies
Racine Symphony Orchestra
Willson Tuba Quartet

ThomasP · Post by **ThomasP** » Mon Sep 26, 2005 9:18 pm

To my knowledge it's his first one for Euphonium, and he's previously written a concerto for Contrabass tuba and Orchestra called Journey, premiered by Chicago Symphony Orchestra and Gene Pokorny. I'm not aware of other concerti that he's written.