​S.E. Shires Competitions

Eligibility
Youth Competition - pre-college and under 19 years of age on June 21, 2022
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Excerpts and S.E. Shires Solo Competition - under 26 years of age on June 21, 2022
 
Rules/Procedure
  • Preliminary round submissions are to be submitted with your competition registration and must include audio and video.
  • Competitions are only open to STS Participant Class and Youth Camp participants. 
  • Semifinal and final rounds of the competitions will happen live at the 2022 STS.  All competitors must submit an STS Participant or Youth Camp application separate from the competition submission(s).
  • Repertoire for the Youth Competition and S.E. Shires Solo Competition should be submitted without piano accompaniment.
  • Recordings must be unedited, but audio gain changes on entire recordings are permitted.
  • Performers can skip over multi-measure rests at their discretion.
  • Excerpt Competitors must record the entire list in the order listed below, all in one take.
  • All recordings must be submitted via a YouTube link.  The YouTube video must be “Unlisted” and comments should be disabled. 
  • The link to your recording will be submitted along with the registration form and payment. See below for dates: 
  • Participants must pay one STS Competition Entry fee for each competition entered via credit card via the registration form linked on this page. 
  • All entrants will receive feedback from the judges.
  • It is permissible to compete in more than one STS competition, but individuals may only win one of the grand prizes.  If they are chosen as the winner in a second competition they will automatically receive second place.
  • Bass and Tenor players will compete head-to-head in each STS competition.
  • Semifinal rounds of the S.E. Shires Solo Competition and Youth Competition will be unaccompanied.  Pianist will be provided for solo competition finalists.  No outside pianists will be allowed.  Each finalist will be allotted two 25-minute rehearsals with the pianist.
 
Important Dates​
  • The STS will begin notifying participants who advance to the semi-final rounds beginning on January 15th.
Final recording submission deadline to be considered for the competitions is June 7.
 
Repertoire

S.E. Shires Solo Competition
TENOR TROMBONE
Stjepan Sulek "Sonata (Vox Gabrieli)"

BASS TROMBONE
Elizabeth Raum "Concerto for Bass Trombone"

Excerpt Competition
TENOR TROMBONE
Preliminary Round:
Mozart: Requiem Tuba Mirum - mm. 1 through mm. 18 (second Trombone)
Wagner: Ride of Valkyries - pick up to Number  4 through 3rd bar of Number 7 (1st Trombone)
Rossini: William Tell overture - C through 9th bar of D 1st Trombone
Saint Saens: Symphony Number 3 - Q through 2nd bar of S (1st Trombone)
Berlioz: Hungarian March - Bar before number 4 to End (1st Trombone)

Final Round: (added for live rounds)
Ravel: Bolero (solo)
Mozart: Requiem - Kyrie complete (1st Trombone)
Sibelius: Symphony Number 7 - 7th bar of C (Solo) to D (1st Trombone)
Mahler: Symphony 3 Mvmt 1 - 3rd bar of number 13 through 1st bar of 17, Pick up to Number 33 through second bar of Number 34, 1 Bar before 58 to 5 bars before 62 (1st Trombone)
Wagner: Lohengrin - 1 bar before D through 5th bar of E (1st Trombone)

BASS TROMBONE
Preliminary Round:
Haydn: Creation Bar 1 to C
Wagner: Ride of Valkyries pick up to Number 4 to 5, Pick up to Number 11 through 5th bar of Number 12
Rossini: William Tell overture - C through 9th bar of D
Franck: Symphony D - Letter N to 18 after N
Schumann: Symphony Number 3 - bar 1 of mvmt 4 through 13th bar after A

Final Round: (added for live rounds)
Berlioz: Hungarian March - 6 bars before number 4 to End
Kodaly: Hary Janos Suite Mvt 4 - Bar 5 through 7th bar of Number 1, 5th Bar of Poco meno mosso to the Lunga Pausa
Wagner: Das Reingold Scene 3 - Bar 1027 to End
Respighi: Fountains of Rome - pick up to Number 11 through 5 bars before Number 16
Wagner: Lohengrin - 1 bar before D through 5th bar of E

Youth Competition
TENOR TROMBONE
Gaubert Morceau Symphonique

BASS TROMBONE
McCarty Sonata