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REQUIREMENTS (read carefully)

Annual Student Soloist Competition

The Tacoma Concert Band is a nationally acclaimed community symphonic band dedicated to providing its audiences with the highest quality classical and contemporary music.  The student soloist competition reflects our desire to recognize and encourage talented young musicians in the Puget Sound area.  We are now inviting high school brass, woodwind and percussion students to audition and participate in the twenty-fourth annual Student Soloist Competition.

ELIGIBILITY

  • Any Puget Sound-area high school woodwind, brass or percussion student who has received the recommendation of his/her high school band director.

 

  • Participants must be members in good standing of the school band  program.

 

  • Home-schooled students are encouraged to participate.

BENEFITS

  • Perform as a soloist with one of the most respected community concert bands in the nation in the Pantages Theater on February 9th, 2019

 

  • Receive coaching in style, interpretation and stage presence from the Conductor, Gerard Morris, Professor of Music and Director of Bands at the University of Puget Sound.

 

  • Receive the Wayne Timmerman Prize of $300.

 

  • Use this opportunity to gain experience to compete for regional and state solo competitions and college scholarships.

  • The student must perform a live solo audition of sufficient musical substance to demonstrate technical and musical abilities.

 

  • The piece or movement from a piece must be performed in its entirety, cuts will not be permitted.

 

  • The performance time of the solo must not exceed 12 minutes.

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  • The soloist must be accompanied by piano at the audition, and it is the responsibility of the soloist to provide the piano accompanist. Be certain to finalize plans with your accompanist.

 

  • The solo performed at the audition must be the one intended for the performance with the Tacoma Concert Band.

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  • The solo performed at the audition must be the one intended for the performance with the Tacoma Concert Band

 

  • The student must be available for rehearsals and the concert on February 9, 2019.

Tacoma Concert Band's

Annual Soloist Competition Winners

2019 - Hugo Bliss, French Horn

 

2018 - Jennifer Rhee, flute - Puyallup HS

 

2017- No Selection

 

2016 - Tyler Ussery, percussion - White River

 

2015 - Andrew Rink, tuba - Emerald Ridge

 

2014 - Katherine Scheerer, basoon -Emerald Ridge High School

 

2013 - Alex Carlson, bassoon - Olympia High School

 

2012 - Torsen Necessary, flute - Curtis High School

 

2010 - Candy Chang, flute - Kentridge High School

 

2009 - Leah Tott, bassoon - Bellevue Christian High School

 

2008 - Benjamin Riodl-Ward, bassoon - Stadium High School

 

2007 - Mia Nafziger, clarinet - Olympia High School

 

2006 - Morgan Nash, clarinet - Olympia High School

 

           Melanie Stambaugh - mallet percussion, Ferucci Junior High

 

2005 - Jens Peterson, tuba - Lakes High School

 

2004 - Samantha Baker, clarinet - Olympia High School

 

2003 - Joycelyn Eby, bassoon - Garfield High School, Seattle

 

2002 - Stephanie Enzmann, flute - Mercer Island High School

 

2001 - Zoe Hawkins, clarinet - Capital High School, Olympia

 

2000 - Erik Ibsen-Nowak, saxophone - Stadium High School

 

1999 - Chris Tiedeman, tuba - Stadium High School

 

1998 - Ben Lulich, clarinet - Woodway H.S., Edmonds

 

1997 - James Battle, euphonium - Rogers High School

 

1996 - Kevin Jones, french horn - Wilson High School

 

1994 - Jodi Johnson, euphonium - Rogers High School          

 

1993 - Elliott Sohn, clarinet - Olympia High School

 

1992 - Torrey Lawrence, tuba - Clover Park High School

 

1991 - Anthony Christiansen, trumpet - Lake Washington H.S.

 

1990 - Jason Gilliam, euphonium - Foss High School

Download Competition Application (pdf) Square Apply Online

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