The purpose of the The Euphonium Foundation is to promote and enhance the position of the euphonium as a musical instrument by providing more focused exposure through new music commissions, concerts, scholarships, grants, and workshops specifically targeted to further the instrument and inspire players to enhance their skills and goals as musicians.
2025-2026 Consortium Projects
You can join now - HERE!! Sponsored by the Euphonium Foundation (a registered 501c3) and helping create 3 new works for euphonium in various genres. You can choose each individual project or join all three. Membership Options Individual Piece Memberships All three pieces (piano reduction of the David Concerto) Large Ensemble Membership of the David Concerto Large Ensemble Membership and the Stahl/Deddos Works
Project 1 - Euphonium and String Quartet by Sonya Leonore Stahl Entitled "The Metal is Ready," this work will continue the 2023 project for euphonium and strings. The composer states - "At a pivotal moment in Cecil B. DeMille’s The Ten Commandments, DeMille himself as narrator delivers a powerful monologue. Describing Moses’s journey into the desert, he concludes with “Until at last, at the end of human strength, beaten into the dust from which he came, the metal is ready for the Maker’s Hand.” That line has always moved me deeply, and I’ve chosen “The Metal is Ready” as my title for so many reasons: in honor of the sentence’s ringing paean to resilience, to evoke a lifted sword, because I have a “metal” name (Stahl)... or maybe just because the piece includes one of my deepest loves, a metal instrument from the low brass family!"
Project 2 - Euphonium and Piano by Fernando Deddos Brazlian composer, Fernando Deddos will be creating a work for euphonium and piano, Choro de Isla, in the Brazilian choro style with an island flavor that is dedicated to his visit to the Jeju International Brass Competition in Jeju, South Korea in 2024. The work will be around 5 minutes and the parts will be playable an accessible work for multiple levels ranging from advanced high school to college to adult level players.
Project 3 - Euphonium and Wind Band (with piano reduction) by James David We anticiapte delivering the music in middle to late November. Consortium members will have the option to receive digital (preferred) or physical copies of the music. The Large Ensemble parts for the David Concerto will be delivered digitally). Information will be sent in late November about delivery. The EXCLUSIVE premiere period for consortium members will run until January 1, 2026-December 31, 2026.
About the composers
James David Dr. James M. David (b. 1978) is an American composer and professor of music theory and composition at Colorado State University. His symphonic works have been performed and recorded by many prominent ensembles including the U.S. Air Force Band, the U.S. Army Band “Pershing’s Own”, the U.S. Army Field Band, the U.S. Navy Band, the Des Moines Symphony Orchestra, the Fort Collins Symphony Orchestra, the Showa Wind Symphony (Japan), the Osaka Shion Wind Orchestra, and the North Texas Wind Symphony. His music has been performed at more than sixty national and international conferences including the Midwest Clinic, the College Band Directors National Association Biennial Conference, the American Bandmasters Association Convention, the World Association for Symphonic Bands and Ensembles Conference, the International Clarinet Fest, the International Trombone Festival, the Percussive Arts Society International Convention, the International Horn Symposium, and the World Saxophone Congress. Dr. David was the winner of the 2024 CBDNA Frederick Fennell Prize, the 2022 William D. Revelli Composition Contest, named a three-time finalist for the Sousa-ABA Ostwald Award, winner of an ASCAP Morton Gould Award, and won national contests sponsored by the Music Teachers National Association and the National Association of Composers (USA). Commissions include projects for the National Band Association, the Atlantic Coast Conference Band Directors Association, Joseph Alessi (New York Philharmonic), John Bruce Yeh (Chicago Symphony), James Markey (Boston Symphony), and hundreds of university faculty and ensembles. His works are represented on over twenty commercially released recordings on the Naxos, Summit, Mark, Albany, Parma, MSR Classics, Bravo Music, GIA Windworks, and Luminescence labels and are published by Murphy Music Press, C. Alan Publications, Potenza Publishing, and Excelsia Music.About the Composers
Fernando Deddos Fernando Deddos acts globally as a composer, euphoniumist and professor. He is currently an associate professor of the UFRN – Federal University of Rio Grande do Norte State in Natal, Brazil, since 2016. Besides his participation in interdisciplinary, chamber music and Brazilian popular music projects as euphoniumist, pianist, conductor and composer, Deddos recorded the very first euphonium album in Brazil (EuFonium Brasileiro (2009), which received the International Tuba & Euphonium Association’s Roger Bobo Awards for excellence in recording (Arizona, 2010). Deddos has received three times the Harvey Phillips Awards by ITEA for excellence in composition, and has been member of international competitions committees such as Trombonanza, ITEC, Falcone Festival, IET, Colombian Euphonium Competition, Brazilian National Euphonium and Tuba Association Competition, Cascavel Music Festival and Gramado in Concert International Festival (Brazil), judging performance and composition. In 2017, the Montevideo Philharmonic premiered his Concerto Grosso for Brass Quinte and Symphony Orchestra, along with the Porto Alegre Brass Quintet.
Sonya Leonore Stahl Sonya Leonore Stahl (1981) is a violinist with Gainesville Orchestra and Ocala Symphony Orchestra, and was state fiddle champion at the 2011 Florida Folk Festival. She studied with Janna Lower and Paul Richards at University of Florida, and her compositions center love, nature, faith, and fairy-tales. Her "Solutions" was performed by the Professors' Choir at the 2022 Southeast Trombone Symposium and the Cramer Choir at the 2023 International Trombone Festival, and her "Song of the Rose" appears on Jemmie Robertson's Red Dragonfly album. In 2023 she won a prize in Bemidji State University Silent Voices Festival, and in 2024 the Edinburgh University Brass Band selected her "Piltdown Man" winner of their composition contest. She previously spent two decades working with fruits and vegetables, both in scientific research and wholesale logistics, and was the winner of the Florida State Horticultural Society’s Best Paper for her 2021 review of bamboo shoot freshness.
2023-2024 Consortium Project
Contribute and be a consortium member of this amazing project to create 4 new works for euphonium and string quartet!! Sponsored by the Euphonium Foundation (a registered 501c3) and the Emory Chamber Music Society of Atlanta, this project includes your name as a commissioning member as well as copies (either phyical or digital) of the 4 works.
New original compositions of 5-7 minutes for euphonium and string quartet by: 1) Kevin Day - Fantasia VI (working title) 2) Frank Gulino - Fragments and Figments (working title)
New arrangements of works specifically for euphonium and string quartet: 3) Vise by Skomsvoll arr. Baadsvik (for euphonium, string quartet, and piano) 4) Gypsy Rondo by Haydn arr. PatrickHoffman We anticiapte delivering the music in middle to late December. Consortium members will have the option to receive digital (preffered) or physical copies of the music. Information will be sent in early December about deliver.
You can purchase a membership for $100 at this link. If you are interested in donating above and beyond to support this project further, pleaseemail usdirectly for more details.
Earle L. Louder Fellowships to Attend the International Euphonium Tuba Festival
These scholarships are awarded to deserving individuals outside the United States to attend the International Euphonium Tuba Festival. Preference is given to participants both professionals and students that show a clear plan on passing on the information learned to other players in their country. Click on the tab in the menu above for more details, past awards, and commentary of previous participants. You can find more information on the Louder Fellowship Page.
Commission of New Music
2021-2022 Project The Euphonium Foundation has commissioned a large number of works and connects people and composers. By working together to fund projects (called a consortium), it allows groups of dedicated musicians to help create multiple new pieces of music. In 2021 and 2022, we are commissioning a new euphonium concerto by Aaron Perrine and includes:
Wind Band Version listings:
The Don R. Marcouiller Endowment for Band Excellence and the Drake University Wind Symphony, Robert Meunier, conductor
Kansas State University Wind Ensemble, Dr. Frank Tracz, Director
Atlanta Youth Wind Symphony, Dr. Scott A. Stewart, Conductor
Dr. Michael W. Mapp, New Mexico State University
Dr. Vince Kenney, Drake University
Dr. Adam Frey, University of North Georgia
Dr. Nolan Hauta, University of Dubuque
Dr. Albert (A.J.) Miller, Washington State University
William Uffenbeck
Piano Reduction Listings:
Dr. Brian Bowman, University of North Texas (Retired)
Richard and Erik Lundquist, U.S. Air Force Band
Tom and Alison Mahovsky, U.S. Air Force Band
Toby Furr, U.S. Army Band "Pershing's Own"
Dr. Patrick Nyren, U.S. Army Field Band
Dr. Paul Dickinson, Kennesaw State University & Reinhardt University
In memory of Sandy Meredith from Betsy & Frank Meredith