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Can anyone give me suggestions on euphonium repertoire that uses contemporary techniques such as mulitphonics, hitting instrument etc. It need to be accessible to students with moderate technique and range. My tuba students love Fnugg, is there something similar for euphonium?

"Ginko Biloba" - Hiroyuki Yamamoto

On youtube.

Thank you

Somehow "euphonium" and "avant e garde" don't seem to belong in the same sentence.

Rabecando by Fernando Deddos. Not exactly avant garde, but very unique and fun piece to perform and makes great use of some extended techniques. Requires some excellent double tonguing ability and flexibilty though.

Unfortunately, there isn't a whole lot of avant-garde repertoire out there for the euphonium (which is a shame, because the euphonium, like the tuba, could do well in that setting). There are a few pieces floating around out there, though. Here are a few I can think of off the top of my head.

Si! - Karlheinz Essl (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I5lg0eJu9KY)

Mirum - Mauricio Kagel (this is actually a tuba piece, but the composer allows for euphonium players to perform it at a 5th up from written)

Bipolar Crash - Remmy Canedo (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Hw5AzC8c9Lw)

Tube space - Dmitri Kourliandski (also for the tuba, but could realistically be performed on any low valved instrument)

The Green Lion Eats the Sun - Liza Lim (for double bell euphonium, written for Melvyn Poore. This has yet to be premiered, but it sounds like it will be a great piece.)

There are a few other works out there, but I'm blanking on the titles right now. I know that the fantastic Japanese euphonium player Kana Kotera is getting some new works written for the instrument, so that's a great start. The relative lack of repertoire can be a good thing, though--that just means there is more room for euphonium players to go out and get works written for the instrument. There's a lot of opportunity out there!

Thanks everyone.

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electronic funk and solo euphonium

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electronic funk and solo euphonium

Nice! Wish I could tell where the synth/samples started and the bari performance ended but nice!

Not sure if these fit the avante garde genre but IMO some nice modern euph stuffs:

Not sure either if this would be considered "avante garde", but some great jazz licks with "Lewinsky March".