ITEA Midwest Competitions

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Sat. Morning Masterclass

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The winner and runner-up (and maybe a third player) from the Mock Orchestral Tuba Competition (held on Friday, Feb. 18th,. 2005) will perform for Gene on Saturday. To be eligible to perform on the Sat. Morning masterclass you will have to participate in the Mock Orchestral Tuba Competition (and be selected as the winner or runner-up).

Hope this answers your question...I'm not sure if this was what you were getting at.

Thanks,
Mike
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Ahhh...I thought I was missing your question!

Good question--the masterclass is open to all registered guests. There will be a $35 registration fee for the whole conference ($25 for itea members) (Feb. 17-19, 2005). But there will also be a $15 per day fee (for non-ITEA and ITEA members alike) if you wish to just attend on just Sat. Feb. 19th (or just Friday, Feb. 18th). I'll post a schedule of events here as soon as I solidify everything.

Gene will also be performing a recital on Friday night. For this event there will be a "concert fee" of $5 if you only wish to attend an evening concert instead of the whole day's events. The Gene Pokorny Masterclass will be part of the "day events" which would fit the $15 cost as stated above.

Thanks for your question.

Mike
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Hey Mike, will there be any solo competitions?

-Will-
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Solo Competitions

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Sorry, Will, no. The Mock Orchestral and Military Band auditions plus the the quartet competition is enough to try and sponsor financially. Wish I could do more....
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Paul,

I'm just so happy that there's been so much interest in this! I feel there's been a bit of a void along the lines of competitions for tuba quartet and mock auditions lately and I wanted to remedy that. I think the "Interactive" Mock auditions will be especially meaningful to not just the auditionees, but any registrant that comes to watch as well.

Hope to see you there,
Mike
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Mr. Forbes,
Question- where can I get an ITEA membership application now that the ITEA website is now only accesible to current ITEA members? Thanks in advance. Jason Harris
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Iteaonline.org

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Jason,

I believe you can download the pdf application from ITEA's hompage (midway down on the left: "JOIN ITEA" link). Here' the link:

http://www.iteaonline.org

...but if this fails, there may be an application form in the Journal that may exist at your local college of music library....I think your best bet is the iteaonline website.

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Mike
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Quartet Competition

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Hello again,

It appears that Bernel Music is getting out of the distribution business and strictly doing the publishing business. Therefore, you will not be able to get the ITEA Midwest Quartet Competition music there at Bernel.

Sotto Voce is launching a new publishing business to deal with this issue, it will be called: TUBAQUARTET.COM (our website). It is our hope that eventually this will be your one-stop shop for quartet music.

In the near future, however, you will be able to purchase the following FINAL ROUND charts for the quartet competition on our website www.tubaquartet.com:

The Village Choir, arr. Paul Walton (of Tubalaté)
Refractions, by Patrick Schulz

Those charts should be up and available in a few weeks--I'll post another brief note when they go up. You will be able to buy them with your credit card through PayPal.

Also, the remaining piece for the Final Round: English Madrigal Suite, arr. yours truly: will be up on the the www.tubaeuphoniumpress.com site VERY soon. I'll post when it's officially up.

Sorry for the delay in getting these charts--but this competition is doing what one hopes all competitions do: increase the literature with new things!! ENJOY!!

I'll keep you posted,
Mike
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TubaQuartet.com

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GREETINGS ALL!

I'm very proud to announce that all the final round music is now available to purchase online!!

TUBAQUARTET.COM is ready to accept payment (via PayPal or Credit Card) for the ITEA Midwest Regional Tuba/Euphonium Conference (MWRTEC) quartet competition music (final round).

Order your copy of: "REFRACTIONS" by Patrick Schulz & "THE VILLAGE CHOIR" by Borodin, arr. Walton HERE:

http://www.tubaquartet.com/sheetmusic.html

The other final round selection is availble from tuba-euphonium press. Follow the link below down to:

FORBES, English Madrigal Suite for tuba/euph. quartet.

http://www.tubaeuphoniumpress.com/c513.html

Thanks, and good luck to all participating tuba/euphonium quartets. Remember, you DO NOT have to be from the Midwest to participate in this competition or regional conference!

MWRTEC Conference Website:

http://www.ilstu.edu/%7Emwdoher/MWRTEC/

Please email me with any problems with obtaining any music for this conference's competitions.

Good luck to all!!

Regards,
Mike
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