"French Tuba Music from the Paris Conservatory"

Friday, January 27 | 12:00 PM

Program

Program Information

The Concours of the Paris Conservatoire are musical contests that are held annually, and are considered important steps in the Conservatoire students’ musical education. Exploring and performing early tuba repertoire from the Paris Conservatoire Concours, composed for the petit tuba Français, brings to light many musical compositions that are rarely performed. Although petit tuba Français has faded from use, the literature that was written for this instrument is rich and can be performed on the modern tuba with slight adjustments. Some pieces require no modification if the tubist has great endurance and a strong high register. The following pieces, originally composed for the petit tuba Français, are of high quality and can be performed on modern tubas: Piccolo Suite by Pierre Max Dubois (1957, 1971), Sonatine by Jacques Castérède (1963), and Suite by Ida Gotkovsky (1953).

Dr. Christopher Vivio

Dr. Christopher Vivio is the Adjunct Professor of Tuba and Euphonium at Austin Peay State University in Clarksville, TN and Belmont University in Nashville, TN. He also held the position of Interim Director of Athletic Bands at Austin Peay State University from 2009-2010. He holds a Bachelor of Music Education degree from Illinois State University, a Master of Music in Tuba Performance from Penn State University, and a Doctorate of the Musical Arts from of the University of Memphis. He also holds a minor in instrumental wind conducting from the University of Memphis. He has been a guest artist at the Mid-South Regional Tuba and Euphonium Conference and the South East Regional Tuba and Euphonium Conference. In 2012, Dr. Vivio will travel to Austria as a guest artist at the International Tuba and Euphonium Conference. He won the University of Memphis Concerto Competition in 2007, was the Category Winner and Grand Prize Finalist at the International Women’s Brass Conference held at Illinois State University in 2007, and was a finalist at the 2004 International Potomac Music Festival at George Mason University. Vivio’s teachers include Dave Zerkel, Jeff Graves, Sharon Huff, Michael Forbes, Velvet Brown and Charles Schulz.

Caryl Conger

Pianist, Caryl Worthington Conger, continues her passion for musical collaboration performing with artists throughout the U. S. and abroad. Her special niche of interest has been her collaboration with low brass artists. She has performed as a staff pianist at the U.S. Army Band Tuba-Euphonium Conference for almost twenty years, the International Euphonium Institute, the International Women’s Brass Conference, and the International Tuba & Euphonium Conferences. Caryl was on the music faculty of Radford University in Radford, Virginia before retiring in 2003. She moved to the mountains outside Estes Park, Colorado where she continues an active career in free-lance music making.