Competition Coordinator: Dr. Jamie Lipton 

ITEA Dan Perantoni Teaching Award 

• WINNER – David Saltzman

ITEA Lifetime Achievement Award

ITEA’s longest standard such honor is its Lifetime Achievement Award, established in 1991 as a way to honor those individuals who have made exceptional achievements in and/or service to the euphonium and tuba profession and the advancement of our instruments in the music world. Every two years, the Executive Committee and Board of Directors select awardees from among
five categories: performance, pedagogy, industry, composition, and scholarship.

• WINNER – Gary Bird
• WINNER – Gerhard Meinl

2023 Harvey Phillips Award Finalists 
Raul Rodriguez, chair

The Harvey G. Phillips Awards were established by ITEA to foster, encourage, and recognize excellence in the field of composition. These awards recognize the very best composers who have produced work of the highest distinction and are indeed given to those whose work illustrates the highest level of artistry, regardless or popularity or
other factors.

Tuba and/or Euphonium featured in a Chamber – The finalists are:

• Shunsuke Abe – Fantasia Two Tubas and Piano
• WINNER – Jose Flores – Entering the Scene for Euphonium and Jazz Quartet
• Evan Zegiel Event – Horizon for Horn, Tuba and Fixed Media

Euphonium in a Solo Role – the finalists are:

• Hidenori Arai – Three Songs for Euphonium and Piano
• Drew Bonner – A Moment of Truth Euphonium and Piano
• WINNER – Aaron Perrine – Drifting Euphonium and Wind Orchestra

Tuba in a Solo Role – Finalists are:

• Todd Goodman – Tuba Concerto No. 2-This Too Shall Pass Tuba and Wind Ensemble
• WINNER – Matt Hightower – Iberian Vignettes Tuba and Piano
• Marcos Ripoll – Concerto Tuba and Orchestra
• Evan Zegiel – Heavy Metal Concerto Tuba and Fixed Media

ITEA Mary Ann Craig Focus on Women Award, Finalists

Open to all genders, the Mary Ann Craig FOCUS ON WOMEN Award was established in 2021 by ITEA to focus on achievements and creativity of women. A single overall winner will be chosen and presented biennially at the International Tuba-Euphonium Conference. This is the first award, being presented at ITEC 2023.

The finalists are:

• WINNER – Joanna Hersey – Nanon, composed for tuba, euphonium, and electronic track
• Honorable mention – Tom McCaslin – CHASING LIGHT AND SOUND: The Tuba Music of Elizabeth Raum

ITEA Winston Morris Award for Tuba Ensemble Composition

The Morris Award was established in 2016 by R. Winston Morris in celebration of his 50th anniversary as professor of tuba at Tennessee Tech University to foster,
encourage, and recognize excellence in the field of composition. This award will
recognize the very best composers who have produced works of the highest distinction and is indeed given to those whose work illustrates the highest level of artistry, regardless of popularity or other factors.

The finalists are:

• Jose Flores – The Face Stealer
• Matt Hightower- Rapid Run
• WINNER – Ian Lester – Liminal Spaces

ITEA Jim and Jamie Self Creative Award – Finalists

The Jim and Jamie Self Creative Award was established in 2014 and is meant to encourage and promote new thinking from current ITEA members that will have a profound effect on the future of our instruments.

• WINNER – Jose Martinez – Duo2Arts

ITEA Roger Bobo Awards for Excellence in Recording Finalists

The Roger Bobo Awards were established by ITEA to foster, encourage, and recognize
excellence in the field of recording. This award recognizes artists who have produced recordings of the highest distinction, and are given to those whose work illustrates an exceptional level of artistry, regardless of popularity or other factors.

ENSEMBLE

• WINNER – Microtub – Sonic Drift
• Sergio Carolino – Color Wheel Ensemble
• Sergio Carolino – Pocket Change

SOLO EUPHONIUM

• WINNER – Hidenori Arai – Euphonium a la Carte
• Martin Smith – The Lyric Euphonium

SOLO TUBA

• WINNER – Sergio Carolino – Portuguese and Australian Music for Tuba and Concert Band
• Sergio Carolino – XL Duo Game Over

ITEA Clifford Bevan Award for Excellence in Research – Finalists

The International Tuba Euphonium Association established the Clifford Bevan Award for Excellence in Research to foster excellence and to encourage the highest level of research pertaining to the tuba, euphonium, and/or related instruments. Low-brass scholarship genres represent research on contemporary and historical topics related to acoustics, composition, theory, scoring, organology, and pedagogy and may include methodologies of oral history, biographical and ethnographic, historical, quantitative, statistical, and survey research.

The finalists are:

• Tubas, Tubists, and Composers: a mixed-methodological approach to performer-and composer-instrument relationships
  By Jack Adler-McKean
• The Serpent Source Book – The French Methods: A Historical Guide to Playing the
  Serpent By Beth Chouinard-Mitchell

NEW COMPETITIONS FOR 2023:

• COMPOSITION: INTERMEDIATE SOLO FOR TUBA OR EUPHONIUM WITH PIANO ACCOMPANIMENT
• COMPOSITION: SOLOIST WITH BRASS BAND
  • WINNER – David Bandman for “Spanish Horses” 
• TUBA PLUS VIDEO COMPETITION (online only)
  • WINNER – Evan J Zegiel
  • HONORABLE MENTION – Tomohiro Sosogi – TUBASSADORS
• TUBA/EUPHONIUM ENTHUSIAST COMPETITIVE SHOWCASE 
• COLLEGIATE TUBA/EUPH ENSEMBLE COMPETITIVE SHOWCASE

RETURNING COMPETITIONS:

• SOLO EUPHONIUM – ARTIST DIVISION
  • 1st Place = Toshiaki Yamaguchi
  • 2nd Place = Arisa Makita
  • 3rd Place = Natsuhiro Aoyama
• SOLO TUBA – ARTIST DIVISION
  • 1st Place = Jorge Gauvin Caraballo
  • 2nd Place = Seth Carter
  • 3rd Place = Junming Wen
• SOLO – YOUNG ARTIST DIVISION
  • 1st Place = Shunki Iwamoto
  • 2nd Place = Ethan Mathews
  • 3rd Place = Natsumi Sasaki
• RICH MATTESON JAZZ COMPETITION
  • 1st Place = Thomas Janssen
  • 2nd Place = Jason Donnelly
• ELECTRONICS COMPETITION
  • 1st Place = Justin Weis
  • 2nd Place = Parker Dye
• TUBA/EUPHONIUM SMALL ENSEMBLE COMPETITION
  • 1st Place = Baylor University Refractive Quartet
  • 2nd Place = Euphonium Camerata (UNT)
  • 3rd Place = A2ba Quartet (University of Michigan)
• MOCK BAND AUDITION – EUPHONIUM
  • 1st Place = Natalie Colegrove
  • 2nd Place = Thomas Janssen
• MOCK BAND AUDITION – TUBA
  • 1st Place = Mike Anderson
  • 2nd Place = Hannah Eitzen
• ARNOLD JACOBS MOCK ORCHESTRAL TUBA COMPETITION
  • 1st Place = Chris Bloom
  • 2nd Place = Tyler Woodbury
  • 3rd Place = Connor Korioth
• ITEC 2023 ALL-STAR ENSEMBLES