Today's date is 2024-05-20. The deadline for nominations for the 2022 ITEA Dan Perantoni Teaching Award is March 15, 2022 11:59PM.

Nominations are now closed.

CRITERIA

· Candidate must be a member of ITEA in good standing
· Candidate must be nominated by at least one of the following:

1. Colleague
2. Current Student
3. Former Student

CANDIDATE QUALIFICATIONS:

1. Minimum of 10 years of teaching euphonium and/or tuba on a regular basis
2. Has not previously been a Lifetime Achievement Award recipient (but can be nominated for that award in the future)
3. Cannot be a current member of the ITEA Board of Directors

NOMINATION GUIDELINES

Nominations must include the following materials:

1. A cover letter written by the nominator outlining the reasoning for the nomination
2. The nominee’s curriculum vitae or resume
3. At least one but no more than five supporting letters from colleagues
4. At least one but no more than five supporting letters from current or former students.

The nominator will assemble all materials and submit as a single document (PDF preferred)

AWARD GUIDELINES

· The ITEA Dan Perantoni Teaching Award will be awarded yearly to one individual beginning with ITEC 2016.

· The Nomination form will be available on the ITEA website. The portal for submitting all nominating materials will be administered by the ITEA web editor.

· The Vice-President/President-elect will be in charge of accepting the nominations and, with the help of the web editor, administering the examination of nominee materials and the voting process by the Board.

· All current members of the ITEA Board of Directors will have the opportunity to review all submitted materials for each candidate and will cast a ballot for one individual during the approved timeline for each award.

· During the biannual ITEC, the winner will be announced formally at the awards ceremony. During the regional ITEC years, the winner will be announced in the program and appropriate live venue of each regional ITEC (except for any regional ITEC held before ballots are cast). That winner will also be recognized at the next ITEC awards ceremony.

· All submitted materials become the property of ITEA and will not be returned or acknowledged.

· The ITEA Board of Directors reserves the right to eliminate candidates with incomplete material submitted or withhold the award in any given year if no suitable candidate is found.

YEARLY AWARD TIMELINE

· May 1-January 1 open process for nominations on the ITEA web site

· January 1-February 1: Full Board of Directors votes on nominees prior to the regional or international ITEC. Votes will be tallied by the Vice-President/President Elect, and the awardee's name will be forwarded to the Vice-President/President-Elect. The Vice-President will inform the awardee and include the announcement in the Awards Banquet program or (in Regional Conference years) inform the awardee and each of the Regional Conference hosts, who will recognize the awardee in a venue wherein the majority of Regional Conference attendees will be present, in addition to recognition in the conference program.

2022 ITEA Dan Perantoni Teaching Award Recipient: SCOTT WATSON

Scott Watson is the Professor of Tuba-Euphonium at the School of Music, University of Kansas, an association that dates back to 1979. His solo efforts can be heard on his “Thoughts of a Cow“ Solo CD, and the educational recordings “Stepping Stones for Tuba, Volume I & II”, both on Potenza Records. Scott is the inaugural Music Director and conductor of the Free State Brass Band since 2014. He also plays Eb tuba in the acclaimed Fountain City Brass Band of Kansas City which is the most successful brass band in American history, having won eight North American titles, as well as their historic Scottish Open win in 2009. In 2018 he served as Principal Tuba of the Melbourne Symphony Orchestra in Australia. While there, he taught at the Conservatorium of Music of the University of Melbourne/Victoria School of the Arts as well as being Principal Eb tuba of the Glenferrie Brass Band. As a teacher, his legions of former students can be found throughout orchestras, major military service bands, college-university positions, and acclaimed public school music programs across the United States.

2020 ITEA Teaching Award Recipient: MARK MOORE

The Board of Directors of the International Tuba Euphonium Association is pleased to announce that Mark Moore, Professor of Tuba and Euphonium the University of Illinois, is the recipient of the fifth annual ITEA Teaching Award.

Mark Moore is Professor of Tuba and Euphonium at the University of Illinois. Previously, he taught at the University of Southern Mississippi and at Shenandoah College and Conservatory of Music in Virginia. His teachers include Arnold Jacobs (former principal tuba with the Chicago Symphony Orchestra), Robert LeBlanc and Daniel Perantoni. Many of his students have won honors at the International Tuba Euphonium Association conferences and hold orchestra, band, and teaching positions at universities throughout the country.

Prof. Moore has served as an adjudicator for the International Tuba and Euphonium Association solo competitions and has been a featured artist at international conferences of ITEA, the International Trumpet Guild, the International Horn Society, and the International Brassfest. In demand as an artist teacher/performer, he has appeared as a soloist, chamber music performer and clinician in Taiwan, Venezuela, Columbia, Poland, Spain, Belgium and at many schools and universities throughout the United States. He was soloist in 1997 with the Illinois Symphony Orchestra, in 1999 with the United States Army Orchestra in Washington D.C. performing Concerto for Tuba by JohnWilliams and in 2007 performing the Concerto for Tuba by Neely Bruce with the Bogota Philharmonic in Columbia. He has soloed with University of Illinois ensembles on 10 occasions, most recently performing the Donald Grantham Tuba Concerto with the UI Wind Symphony in 2013. Moore has performed with many orchestras, including the St. Louis Symphony, and is currently Principal Tuba with both the Illinois and Champaign-Urbana Symphony Orchestras. He is also a member of the Illinois Brass Quintet, which has performed throughout the United States and Europe, and the Medicare 7,8 or 9, a Dixieland band at the University of Illinois. Moore is a founding member of Sonus Brass, formed in 1987.

2021 ITEA Teaching Award Recipient: DEANNA SWOBODA

Dr. Deanna Swoboda is Associate Professor of tuba, euphonium and entrepreneurship at Arizona State University. She has enjoyed a vibrant career as a performer, educator, and entrepreneur. As a performer she played tuba with the internationally recognized Dallas Brass and performed hundreds of solo recitals throughout the United States and Europe, including solos and presentations with the United States Army String Orchestra, the Deutsches Tubaforum, the National Conservatory of Madrid and St. Petersburg Conservatory. Prior to her appointment at Arizona State University, she served on the faculty at Western Michigan University where she performed with the Western Brass Quintet, taught tuba and euphonium, developed music and entrepreneurship programs, and coached chamber music. Deanna is the creator and performer of a band recruitment presentation and DVD called “Band Blast Off.” She has performed hundreds of concerts and presentations around the US, supporting and enhancing public school music programs. Dr. Swoboda’s recordings include, Deanna’s Wonderland (Summit), Shamanic Journey (Potenza), Games for Brass (Summit), Table for Three (Potenza), Fanfare and Flourish (Potenza). She is a Past President for the International Tuba Euphonium Association and is an Eastman Music Company tuba artist. She is a proud Patroness member of Sigma Alpha Iota and a fraternity member of Kappa Kappa Psi. Her mentors are Roberts Spevacek, Rex Martin, and Sam Pilafian.

2020 ITEA Teaching Award Recipient: MARK MOORE

The Board of Directors of the International Tuba Euphonium Association is pleased to announce that Mark Moore, Professor of Tuba and Euphonium the University of Illinois, is the recipient of the fifth annual ITEA Teaching Award.

Mark Moore is Professor of Tuba and Euphonium at the University of Illinois. Previously, he taught at the University of Southern Mississippi and at Shenandoah College and Conservatory of Music in Virginia. His teachers include Arnold Jacobs (former principal tuba with the Chicago Symphony Orchestra), Robert LeBlanc and Daniel Perantoni. Many of his students have won honors at the International Tuba Euphonium Association conferences and hold orchestra, band, and teaching positions at universities throughout the country.

Prof. Moore has served as an adjudicator for the International Tuba and Euphonium Association solo competitions and has been a featured artist at international conferences of ITEA, the International Trumpet Guild, the International Horn Society, and the International Brassfest. In demand as an artist teacher/performer, he has appeared as a soloist, chamber music performer and clinician in Taiwan, Venezuela, Columbia, Poland, Spain, Belgium and at many schools and universities throughout the United States. He was soloist in 1997 with the Illinois Symphony Orchestra, in 1999 with the United States Army Orchestra in Washington D.C. performing Concerto for Tuba by JohnWilliams and in 2007 performing the Concerto for Tuba by Neely Bruce with the Bogota Philharmonic in Columbia. He has soloed with University of Illinois ensembles on 10 occasions, most recently performing the Donald Grantham Tuba Concerto with the UI Wind Symphony in 2013. Moore has performed with many orchestras, including the St. Louis Symphony, and is currently Principal Tuba with both the Illinois and Champaign-Urbana Symphony Orchestras. He is also a member of the Illinois Brass Quintet, which has performed throughout the United States and Europe, and the Medicare 7,8 or 9, a Dixieland band at the University of Illinois. Moore is a founding member of Sonus Brass, formed in 1987.

2019 ITEA Teaching Award Recipient: FRITZ KAENZIG

The Board of Directors of the International Tuba Euphonium Association is pleased to announce that Fritz Kaenzig, Arthur F. Thurnau Professor of Tuba and Euphonium the University of Michigan, is the recipient of the fourth annual ITEA Teaching Award.

Fritz Kaenzig has served as principal tubist of the Florida Symphony Orchestra and as additional or substitute tubist with Amsterdam's Concertgebouw and the symphony orchestras of Detroit, San Francisco, Houston, Chicago, Los Angeles and St. Louis, under such conductors as Bernstein, Haitink, Leinsdorf, Ozawa, Salonen, and Slatkin. He has recorded and performed as soloist with several of these orchestras, as well as appearing as soloist with the U.S. Air Force and Navy Bands. Since 1984, Mr. Kaenzig has been principal tubist in the Grant Park (Chicago) Orchestra during summers, which has played to capacity audiences since moving to the Pritzker Pavilion in Millennium Park in 2005. Kaenzig has performed in ensembles backing up artists as widely varied as Alan Ginsberg, Luciano Pavarotti, and the Moody Blues.

As a guest instructor, recitalist, soloist with ensembles, and adjudicator, Mr. Kaenzig has made appearances at many high schools, colleges, universities, conferences, and music camps throughout the United States, Korea, and Japan. He received degrees from the Ohio State University and the University of Wisconsin-Madison, with extensive studies also with Arnold Jacobs, former tubist of the Chicago Symphony Orchestra and a member of the Tanglewood Music Center Orchestra. Prior to joining the U-M faculty, he taught at the University of Illinois and the University of Northern Iowa. Mr. Kaenzig is a past president of the Tubists Universal Brotherhood Association, now known as the International Tuba and Euphonium Association.

The ITEA Teaching Award is presented annually to an ITEA member who has been teaching for at least 10 years. Letters of nomination are submitted accompanied by letters of support from current and former students and professional colleagues. Members of the ITEA Board of Directors review the submitted materials and vote to determine the recipient.

2018 ITEA Teaching Award Recipient: DONALD LITTLE

The Board of Directors of the International Tuba Euphonium Association is pleased to announce that Donald C. Little, Regents Professor of Tuba at the University of North Texas, is the recipient of the 3rd annual ITEA Teaching Award.

Donald C. Little, Principal Tuba and Cimbasso of the Dallas Opera Orchestra, performs frequently in the Dallas-Fort Worth area with many orchestras and ensembles including the Sundance Brass, Texas Winds Brass Quintet, and UNT Faculty Brass. During summers he performs with the Summit Concert Band and Blue River Brass of Summit County, Colorado. Little has performed and recorded with the Fort Worth Symphony Orchestra, Dallas Opera Orchestra, Dallas Symphony and the German Radio-Symphony Orchestra of Berlin. He is a former member of the Chicago Civic Orchestra, Colorado Festival Orchestra and York (PA) Symphony. He has also performed with the Chicago, St. Louis, San Antonio, Baltimore, and Wichita Falls Symphony Orchestras as well as the Dallas Wind Symphony. He retired from the Fort Worth Symphony Orchestra in 2001 after serving as Principal Tuba there since 1980. Now in his fortieth year of full-time university teaching, Little is Regents Professor of Tuba at the University of North Texas College of Music and was previously a faculty member at the University of Northern Iowa. Former students hold or held teaching and performance positions throughout the world, such as in the Hague Orchestra of Holland, the Orquesta del Principado de Asturias of Spain, the Mississippi Symphony, Memphis Symphony, Colorado Springs Philharmonic, Oklahoma City Symphony, Fort Worth Symphony Orchestra, Breckenridge Festival Orchestra, Disney World, the U.S. Coast Guard Academy Band, the U.S. Navy Band of Washington, DC, and numerous universities and colleges.

ITEA President presents Donald Little with the 2018 ITEA Teaching Award.

Donald Little has been active in the International Tuba Euphonium Association throughout his career and has served the association in many capacities since 1975 including the offices of President, Past-President, Vice President, Secretary-Treasurer, Conference Coordinator and Chairman of the Board of Directors. He presently serves the association as a member of the Honorary Advisory Board.

Mr. Little has transcribed, arranged, edited and/or composed numerous published works for the tuba, euphonium and brass ensembles with Belwin Mills, Southern Music Company, Kagarice Brass Editions and other publishers. His solo and chamber music publications continue to receive thousands of performances annually at professional, faculty and student recitals, contests, competition and other venues throughout the US and the world. A respected pedagogue and low brass specialist, he contributed instructional materials and solo editions for the tuba and euphonium to Belwin Mills', Medalist Band Course and Contemporary Band Course, which includes his text for high school and college tubists, Practical Hints on Playing the Tuba.

Born in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, Donald grew up on the southern New Jersey seashore in Wildwood Crest where his first tuba teacher was Bernard V. Switzer, Jr., who was also his band director at Wildwood High School. He received his B.M.E. at the Peabody Conservatory of Johns Hopkins University, where he studied with John Melick, and M.M. at Northwestern University where he was a student of Arnold Jacobs. He has also completed further graduate studies at the Eastman School of Music as a student of Cherry Beauregard. Don is married to Laura Bruton, principal violist with the Fort Worth Symphony Orchestra. They reside with their family in Argyle, Texas.

The ITEA Teaching Award is presented annually to an ITEA member who has been teaching for at least 10 years. Letters of nomination are submitted accompanied by letters of support from current and former students and professional colleagues. Members of the ITEA Board of Directors review the submitted materials and vote to determine the recipient.

The inaugural (2016) recipient of the ITEA Teaching Award was Prof. David Zerkel, of the University of Georgia. Prof. Phil Sinder, of Michigan State University, received the 2017 ITEA Teaching Award.

2017 ITEA Teaching Award Recipient: Phil Sinder

The Board of Directors of the International Tuba Euphonium Association is pleased to announce that Phil Sinder, Professor of Tuba and Euphonium at Michigan State University, is the recipient of the 2nd annual ITEA Teaching Award.

Prof. Sinder has served on the faculty of the Michigan State University College of Music since 1982. He has been responsible for the musical training of countless undergraduate and graduate tuba and euphonium majors, including more than 20 who have gone on to become faculty members in higher education. Letters of nomination and support alluded to his dedication to his students, consistency in producing classes of high-achieving performers and teachers, and his “clear, effective, motivating, supportive, and demanding” teaching. Prof. Sinder was previously recognized with the John and Dortha Withrow Excellence in Teaching Citation at Michigan State University. In addition to his duties at MSU, Prof. Sinder serves as a Valade Fellow at the Interlochen Arts Camp.

Prof. Sinder is a founding member of the Brass Band of Battle Creek and serves as President of the Leonard Falcone International Euphonium and Tuba Festival, having served on the board of that festival since 1992. He has also served as coordinator of the TUBA/ITEA Composition Contest, and was an Associate Editor of the New Tuba Source Book (Indiana University Press, 2006). He is a graduate of the Eastman School of Music (BM, PC) and Wichita State University (MM).

The ITEA Teaching Award is presented annually to an ITEA member who has been teaching for at least 10 years. Letters of nomination are submitted accompanied by letters of support from current and former students and professional colleagues. Members of the ITEA Board of Directors review the submitted materials and vote to determine the recipient. The inaugural (2016) recipient of the ITEA Teaching Award was Prof. David Zerkel, of the University of Georgia.

2016 ITEA Teaching Award Recipient: David Zerkel

The Board of Directors of the International Tuba Euphonium Association awarded the first annual ITEA Teaching Award to Professor David Zerkel, Professor of Tuba and Euphonium at the University of Georgia.

David has performed with many orchestras, to include the Philadelphia Orchestra, New York Philharmonic, Chicago Symphony Orchestra, Atlanta Symphony Orchestra, National Symphony Orchestra, Baltimore Symphony Orchestra and the Kennedy Center Opera House Orchestra. He is a member of the Brass Band of Battle Creek, was a founding member of the Washington Symphonic Brass and has performed with the Burning River Brass. He began his performing career as a member of the United States Army Field Band and The United States Army Band, both located in Washington, D.C.

David has performed as a featured soloist at many workshops and symposia, including the Leonard Falcone Festival, several International Tuba Euphonium Conferences, and the United States Army Band Tuba Conference. In addition, he has performed as a solo recitalist at many of the leading colleges and conservatories in the United States. His first solo CD, American Music for Tuba: Something Old, Something New, was selected as the recipient of the inaugural ITEA Roger Bobo Award for Excellence in Recording at the 2006 ITEC in Denver, Colorado. His subsequent CD, Tuba Helper, was a Bobo finalist in 2008.

David’s students have enjoyed numerous musical and professional successes. Currently, each premiere military band in Washington DC has an alumni of the UGA Tuba Euphonium Studio among its’ ranks. He has had multiple winners in the Leonard Falcone Competition, the solo competition of the International Tuba Euphonium Conference, and the national Music Teachers National Association solo competition. Alumni from the studio have performed with the Cleveland Orchestra, Chicago Symphony Orchestra and the New York Philharmonic. Many others are leading successful teaching careers at the secondary and post-secondary level.

David is a former Presidentof the International Tuba Euphonium Association.

University of Georgia Tuba-Euphonium Studio Website

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