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I've played CDG from Raum... just make sure if you have a masterclass with her husband thast you know the piece well.

I adapted a piano piece by Robert James Thoms;

http://www.sibeliusmusic.com/cgi-bin/us ... url=rthoms

The recording is here;

http://www.acidplanet.com/artist.asp?PID=467948&t=5192

CB

I encourage all of our university students to be familiar with the Canadian Music Centre:

http://www.musiccentre.ca/

You can search their holdings by instrumentation.

They will mail the piece to you, with a return postage sticker. As long as you return the music on time, it costs you nothing.

Thanks,
Chris

Also, consider "Wonderland Duets" by Raymond Luedeke.

A great Canadian piece for 2 tubas and narrator. Good for a lunch recital at school.

Thanks,
Chris

Raum has written quite a bit for the tuba in recent years. Note that she wrote it all for John Griffiths and often took copious advantage of opportunities to show off his technique which includes a wicked high range and extended cadential passages. For that reason I haven't played any of her stuff yet and I don't know if I ever will - maybe later.

Gary Kulesha wrote a lot of really fun tuba solos...check out Visions and Sonatina - both excellent for an undergrad recital. CMC will have them both as well. There's more that I haven't played - a concerto with 4 hands reduction, as well as a piece with tape.
Check out also the Sonata by Oskar Morawetz, that's kind of a standard Canadian work.

Almost all of the solos I just listen were written for Scott Irvine in Toronto - I'm sure he could give you more ideas if you got in touch with him.

winston wrote:What pieces do you know of that were written as tuba solos by Canadian composers? (solo tuba, tuba with piano)

The following is not intended to be funny:

Although not originally written for tuba, RUSH bass lines are very fun. I kept myself very busy for many years once I got a book of leadsheet Rush tunes. Master those and you pretty much have the tuba down IMO. I know this is not exactly what you are looking for with this thread, but it is good info for practice and inspiration.

All I need is a big hook nose and some chops.

Cameron Gates
Washington, DC

Barbara York - Sea Dreams, Concerto for Tuba, Ariosa gloria (something like that). good stuff. She lives in Kansas City, but is Canadian.

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You will also want to place the Robert Fleming "Concerto" very (very!) high on your list of 'must check out' works. Also available from CMC, as mentioned above.

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Yes, Barbara York is originally a Canadian. She came to KC about 15 years ago and has stayed. No question about her past.

She seems more Canadian than Ray Luedeke, who was born in NYC and moved to Toronto FROM KC, even though Ray has dual citizenship.

I know them both, btw, although it's been several years since I've corresponded with Ray.

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Scott Good is a wonderful, wonderful composer (and guy). He's just landed a sweet gig with the Vancouver Symphony as a resident composer. We're very sorry to see him go here in Toronto. I'd also suggest anything by Gary Kulesha. His stuff has a great sense of humour (notice the Canadian spelling!) along with idomatic writing for the instrument that is challenging but listenable at the same time. There's a cute and challenging little piece that I like to use for an encore called "Burlesque" that I absolutely love and it doesn't take months to work up to performance level.

Good luck!

The Morawetz Sonata is also one to take a look at. Otherwise, I'll just repeat what others have said, search the CMC and/or talk to Scott Irvine.

~Ian

Barbara York = Canadian living in the US

Elizabeth Raum = American living in Canada

You can find some solos from both along with sound samples on the Cimarron Music Press site. Both are fantastic composers!!

Anything written by James Grant. He's from Toronto.
List of solos:
Stuff for Solo Tuba
Three Furies
Those are the 2 solos that I know are by him...I think he also wrote Chocolates for Tuba and Piano, and Endorphans for Tuba and Piano.

tubaguy9 wrote:Anything written by James Grant. He's from Toronto.
List of solos:
Stuff for Solo Tuba
Three Furies
Those are the 2 solos that I know are by him...I think he also wrote Chocolates for Tuba and Piano, and Endorphans for Tuba and Piano.

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