EUPHONIUM SOLO

[Aaya74]

I'm looking for a real challenging solo to play for solo and ensemble...any ideas?

[Mculbert07]

The hardest thing I can play on my Euph is Jingle Bells..

Maybe it's because I've been playing for less than 3 months...

[Serardian]

"Carnival of Venice" is a very difficult euph solo. I don't know if it's on the PML.

[takigan]

"Blue Bells of Scotland" is about as hard as Carnival and I know it's on the PML.

 

The Gordon Jacobs 'Fantasia' (a classic) and 'Eidolons for Euphonium and Piano' (a newer composition) are both original works for Euphonium and have no memory requirement for TSSEC certification....I'm not sure if they're as hard as Carnival or "Blue Balls" but they're definently one of the harder ones on there based on what I've heard about them (I've never played either of them myself though).

 

It's sad though....99.9% of the hundreds of solos written and published exclusively for Euphonium over the past 50 years have never made an appearance on the PML. Partially due to the difficulty of alot of these solos ('Carnival' is a cakewalk compared to a great number of them).....but there are some really awesome solos out there that really do deserve to be on the PML, but for some reason they're not. And I've never been able to figure out why.

[Skippy]

  Mculbert07 said:

The hardest thing I can play on my Euph is Jingle Bells..

Maybe it's because I've been playing for less than 3 months...

My sister made the SFA marching band this year, after playing french horn for 3 months. (she plays violin). Practice more.

[Skippy]

I hate the PML. Lots of great horn quartets that we could have played (although the ones we did play were cool). Also, Horn quintets and sextets weren't even a category. You should be able to play a lot more than what's on there.

[Shiloh Phoenix]

I agree. the best tuba solos(trigon, triumph of the demon gods, etc...) aren't on there.

 

there's about 3 good solos on there.

[MartinHorn]

  Skippy said:

My sister made the SFA marching band this year, after playing french horn for 3 months.  (she plays violin).  Practice more.

Maybe because talent runs in the family for her. But I agree more practice would help.

[Skippy]

  MartinHorn said:

Maybe because talent runs in the family for her. But I agree more practice would help.

A little bit, but mainly it's because she practiced literally twice as much as me... on my own instrument. You have no idea how badly she wanted to be in the marching band.