ITEA Clifford Bevan Award for Excellence in Research 2023

Eligibility

Open to any original low brass research project pertaining to the tuba, euphonium, and/or related instruments completed between January 1, 2023 and December 31, 2024. Research projects nominated for the 2025 Clifford Bevan Award are not eligible for nomination for future awards. Low brass scholarship genres include research on contemporary and historical topics, acoustics, composition, theory, scoring, organology, and pedagogy and may include methodologies of oral history, biographical and ethnographic, historical, quantitative, statistical, and survey research.

Types of submissions: published or unpublished articles (minimum of 4000 words in length), chapters, monographs, dissertations/theses, books.

English translations of articles originally written in other languages MUST BE PROVIDED for consideration of the Clifford Bevan Award.

The recipient of the Clifford Bevan Award will be announced at the 2025 ITEC and an excerpt of the research will appear in a subsequent ITEA Journal. A $500 stipend accompanies this award. The Clifford Bevan Award recognizes individuals whose original scholarship is significant, innovative, thoughtful, and useful. The committee may elect to divide the award between two recipients. The committee reserve the right to not name a winner.

Both the one nominating and the nominee must be a current ITEA member