2027 Tindall Tuba Seminar @ EFM

July 4–10, 2027

What It Is

The 2027 Tindall Tuba Seminar @ EFM brings tuba players to the Eastern Festival of Music for a week of intensive study with Aaron Tindall, Principal Tuba of the Naples Philharmonic, Professor of Tuba and Euphonium at the Frost School of Music, and Tuba Professor at the Colburn School. Ten performers, selected via preliminary recordings, will work through concerto repertoire, unaccompanied literature and a full orchestral audition packet, culminating in a seminar recital. Auditors will also be accepted.

The seminar is open to professional musicians, college and graduate students, and exceptional high school applicants, ages 16+.

Seminar Details

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Aaron Tindall
Aaron Tindall

Principal Tuba - Naples Philharmonic — Tuba Professor - The Colburn School — Professor of Tuba And Euphonium — Frost School of Music - University of Miami — Principal Tuba & Faculty - Eastern Festival of Music — International Yamaha Artist — Denis Wick - London - Artist and Designer

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The week is built around the work of preparing a professional orchestral audition: the repertoire that actually appears on audition lists, studied closely, with the player who has sat in those chairs.

Performers and auditors

Ten players attend as performers, chosen from the preliminary recordings. Once selected, they receive the full seminar packet: two concertos, an unaccompanied work, a solo of their own choosing, and an orchestral audition packet of roughly twenty to twenty-five excerpts. The packet goes out in April, which leaves about eleven weeks to prepare before the seminar begins.

Auditors attend the same sessions and hear the same teaching, without performing. Fifteen or more auditor places are available, and auditors are welcome at every part of the week.

Applying

Every applicant submits a preliminary recording, whether applying as a performer or as an auditor. The required repertoire is listed below. Applicants who are not among the ten performers selected are invited to attend as auditors, so a single application is considered for both.

Preliminary Recording

All applicants submit a preliminary recording. Ten performers are selected from the recordings.

Solo

Solo • Vaughan Williams — Tuba Concerto, Mvt. I: beginning through Rehearsal 5, including the cadenza

Orchestral excerpts

Excerpts are listed alphabetically by composer.

  • Berlioz — Hungarian March: first entrance, F arpeggio through 20 measures

  • Bruckner — Symphony No. 7, Mvt. IV: Reh. P–S

  • Gershwin — An American in Paris: solo, Reh. 67–68

  • Prokofiev — Symphony No. 5, Mvt. I: Reh. 3–6

  • Respighi — Fountains of Rome: Reh. 11–14

  • Revueltas — Sensemayá: Reh. 2–11

  • Wagner — Das Rheingold, Scene 3: Lento e sostenuto, 15-bar Dragon solo

  • Wagner — Die Meistersinger Overture: Reh. J–L

  • Wagner — Ride of the Valkyries

After selection

Selected performers receive the full seminar repertoire: the Vaughan Williams and John Williams concertos, an unaccompanied selection, a solo of their own choosing, and an orchestral audition packet of roughly 20–25 excerpts.

Apply

Applications are submitted through Acceptd, with the preliminary recording attached.

The recording deadline is March 31, 2027.

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