ITEA Journal Volume 49 Number 2 (Winter 2022)

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Vientos Del Sur
Organizado por Patricio Cosentino

Editor's Note: The following section is a collection of news and events from South America. The articles have been printed here in their original languages. An English translation of these articles are available at www.iteaonline.org.

Nota del editor: La siguiente sección es una colección de noticias y eventos de Sudamérica. Los artículos se han impreso aquí en sus idiomas originales. Una traducción al inglés de estos artículos está disponible en www.iteaonline.org.

Nota do Editor: A seção a seguir é uma coleção de notícias e eventos da América do Sul. Os artigos foram impressos aqui em seus idiomas originais. Uma tradução para o inglês desses artigos está disponível em www.iteaonline.org.

Please place the articles in this file folder in the following order:

SECOND INTERNATIONAL EUPHONIUM AND BARITONE FESTIVAL FUNZA 2021

John Fernando Laverde Rodríguez
Translation by David Lopez

During the week of November 1 to 6, 2021, the Second International Euphonium and Baritone Festival took place in the municipality of Funza, Cundinamarca, Colombia with the participation of international performers and clinicians Adam Frey from the United States, Bastien Baumet from France, and Colombian clinician and performer Juan Carlos Jiménez. This event was organized by the author as part of a commitment with the euphonium world for several years with the goal of organizing it every year in Colombia as a contribution to the development and promotion of this instrument in our country. Students from several parts of the country attended this edition of the festival since the international competitors could not attend because of difficulties related to the pandemic.

International Artists of the Funza Festival

The physiotherapist Laura Delgado was part of this festival and gave the first lecture about the artist's body warmup before performing and the body biomechanics focused on the instrument performance, which is an essential practice and that had not been considered in the previous festivals.

Each of the international clinicians hosted warm up sessions, masterclasses, and individual lessons giving the attendants new learning methodologies for euphonium. Dr. Adam Frey presented his book, El Juego de la Práctica, where he teaches how technology and everyday tools help us to improve the euphonium performance with a practical approach to teaching. This is the first edition of this book in Spanish and features simple language and scientific information. Juan Carlos Jiménez surprised each of the festival attendants in sharing his master's degree thesis where he showed us how an improvisation methodology for baritone could be applied from basic levels with exercises with audio and printed music for daily practice. This lecture was so enjoyable and playful that it went on for more than three hours with full acceptance by all participants.

Warm up class with Bastien Baumet

The festival also hosted a euphonium competition featuring for the first time the piece, Entre mares y montañas, a Colombian suite for euphonium and piano by composer Juan Carlos Valencia. This work has three movements and features some of the genres from our Colombian music such us quirpa and currulao. The competition hosted participants from Sibaté, Cundinamarca, San Pedro de los Milagros, Antioquia, Manzanares, Caldas, y Santuario, Risaralda. After two rounds, the winner chosen by the guest artists (Adam Frey and Bastien Baumet) was Oscar Mayorga from Sibaté, who showcased his professionalism and sensitivity performing the instrument.

Physiotherapist Laura Delgado

Another magical night was the festival's main concert, which took place in the auditorium of the Biblioparque Marqués de San Jorge where more than 200 attendants enjoyed the performance by the Tocancipá euphonium quartet, which the author is a part of with Diego Andrés Matiz, Javier Mahecha, and Cristian Tinjacá. The quartet performed Tokio Triptic, Fandango Viejo, and Anita Mia, followed by a masterful performance of the international guest artists Adam Frey and Bastien Baumet, featuring classic euphonium repertoire and where they showcased their performance quality as exemplary performers who have fostered music and have performed in the most important stages in the world.

Lesson with Adam Frey

In this way we have shared our experience with commitment and love for our country and with the desire of opening new avenues for music learning through the euphonium.

Lesson with Bastien Baumet

5th Euphonium and Tuba Festival of the Federal University of Rio Grande do Norte Octubafest UFRN 2021

Fernando Deddos

The 5^th UFRN Euphonium and Tuba Festival - Octubafest UFRN 2021 was held from the October 28-29, 2021, on-line. This is the only event of this genre in the whole state of Rio Grande do Norte, Brazil. The UFRN is a public university from the federal system, and keeping in mind the social inclusion and pandemic difficulties, the access was free for the participants. The previous editions involved national and international guests. In 2017, it was organized at the same time at the UFRN, the 1 ^st National Conference of the ETB - Brazilian Euphonium and Tuba Association.

Besides the knowledge acquired by the brass students at the UFRN, it was intended to reach the entire community, to connect the audience with these instruments, which are ascending in the national music scenario. Beyond the classes, the schedule included lectures and concerts. The focus for our 2021 event was on the new generation. The international guest artists were two emerging performers and researchers: Marina Boselli (Italy - euphonium) brought her knowledge about the Ponchielli Concerto and the piece Vienna, December 13, 1932, written for her. Dr. Samantha Lake (US - tuba), provided a masterclass, discussing multiphonics with high voices and listening to some of the participants. All remaining artists came from the Northeast region in Brazil, focusing on the region: Alex Santana (PE - tuba), Auciran Roque (PE - eufônio), Ceará Tubrass (CE - Caio Ramirez, Victor Rabello, Will Holanda e Robson Lima), EutuPB - Grupo de Tubas e Eufônio da UFPB (Paraíba), GuêTu - Grupo de Eufônio e Tubas da UFRN (Rio Grande do Norte), Íris Vieira (PB - tuba), Jamberê Cerqueira (BA - tuba), Júlio César Fernandes (RN - tuba), Silas Barreto (RN - eufônio), Seridó Brass Quintet (RN), Sexteto Potiguar (RN), Valmir Vieira (PB - tuba), e Projeto Frevo Negro (PE).

The festival was coordinated by Dr. Fernando Deddos, co-coordinated by Hugo Leonardo and the GuêTu - UFRN Euphonium and Tuba Ensemble, and hosted by the UFRN School of Music, in Natal City, RN State, Brazil.

2nd Panama Tuba and Euphonium Association (ATEP) Virtual Competition

Written by Patricio Cosentino
Translation by David Lopez

Passion for tuba and euphonium in Panama fostered the creation of the Panama Tuba and Euphonium Association (ATEP) on June, 2, 2019, led by a group of euphonium and tuba players with a deep love for our instruments in that country.

ATEP was born in one of the most difficult moments of history, not only for our instruments, but also for the whole world due to the COVID pandemic. However, without being discouraged or without losing hope, and following their passion to serve the Latin American euphonium and tuba community, ATEP organized the 1st Panama Tuba and Euphonium Virtual Competition, which took place between June and July 2020 with 15 participants from Colombia, Costa Rica, Mexico, Panama, and Spain.

Carrying on with that passion, which was one of the reasons why the Association was created, and seeing the need to create goals for the Latin American tuba and euphonium community, ATEP decided to organize the 2nd Panama Tuba and
Euphonium Virtual Competition, which took place between September and October 2021, aiming to give young euphonium and tuba players a goal and the motivation to keep going despite the dire circumstances the world was going through.

In this edition of the competition, ATEP went beyond its borders and organized an international jury panel adding international artists Adam Frey and Patricio Cosentino.

Adam Frey was a member of the jury panel for euphonium. Born in Atlanta, USA, Adam is a Yamaha artist, tuba and euphonium professor at the University of North Georgia, Artistic Director of IET, and an international soloist with an extensive career.

Patricio Cosentino was a member of the jury for tuba. Born in Buenos Aires, Argentina, Patricio is a Buffet Crampon artist, tuba and euphonium professor at the Brass Academy of Alicante, artistic director of the Argentinian Tuba and Euphonium Festival, and an international soloist with an extensive career.

The competition was directed to all Spanish-speaking students who had not completed an undergraduate program. The mandatory piece for tuba was Alexej Lebedev's Tuba Concerto (Hofmeister edition) and the Horovitz Concerto for Euphonium.

In this edition of the competition, participants entered from Colombia, Peru, Uruguay, Chile, Venezuela, Panama, and Spain and prizes for both categories were 50 dollars plus a mouthpiece for first place, a CD for second place, and sheet music for instrument and piano for third place.

The results were announced on Monday October 11th, 2021, and the winners were:

Euphonium:

1st - Oscar D. Mayorga R. from Colombia
2nd - Honathan M. Meza L. from Colombia
3rd - Alejandro G. Ala Vásquez from Peru

Tuba:

1st - William A. Castillo A. from Colombia
2nd - Samuel Hernández I. from Spain
3rd - Emmanuel Chavarría R. from Mexico

Honorary Mention: Andrés C. Hernández S. from Colombia

Audience Mention:

Juan S. Tarazona M. from Colombia

Perhaps it is too early to understand the importance of competitions such as this one for the Latin American tuba and euphonium community, but I have no doubt we will realize its impact and positive outcome after several months. I personally thank ATEP for their effort and their important contribution to the Latinamerican euphonium and tuba community.

Octubafest in Puerto Rico

by Nelson M. Corchado González

Octubafest at the Conservatory of Music of Puerto Rico

Octubafest Program

The Conservatory of Music of Puerto Rico held last November the sixth edition of OCTUBAFEST. For us Puerto Ricans it is an honor to pay tribute to the teacher William J. Bell as well as his student Harvey Phillips and to the history of the tuba around the world joining such an important tradition.

The history of the tuba in Puerto Rico in the orchestral field is very well linked to maestro Phillips and another great tuba exponent, maestro Arnold Jacobs since from 1963 to 1978 they participated in the Casals Festival. Within the Casals Festival in 1982 and as a special guest Maestro Phillips visited Puerto Rico again where in a special concert tribute was paid to the tuba, being maestro Phillips who performed under the direction of John Barnett the Concerto for Tuba and Orchestra by Bernhard Heiden and the Concerto for Bass by Ralph Vaughan Williams, both on the same program.

Professor Nelson M. Corchado together with his euphonium and tuba students performed a mixed concert where the students had the opportunity to play solo works culminating with the euphonium and tuba choir. Maestro Harold Hernández Lozano, Tuba and euphonium Professor at the Royal Conservatory of Music of Madrid (Spain) made his presentation of the book: Tubas y yo vengo. We will continue to carry the commitment to keep this tradition afloat on the Beautiful Island of Enchantment.

Frecuencias Bajas, Charlas Musicales Low Frequencies, Musical Chats Let's Talk About Brass in Spanish

Written by Patricio Cosentino
Translation by David Lopez

The COVID pandemic has highlighted the need human beings have to live in community and to have close contact, even more in a time where individualism is often overwhelming due to technology.

The restrictions imposed to society by this virus showed once again how ingenious human beings can be when in a situation of extreme need. Such need, added to the advantages offered by present technology, has shown that the world has changed forever and that we can keep being connected and in communication through technology.

Low Frequences (no caption needed)

It is true that nothing replaces close contact with other humans, but given the extreme restrictions and the need for communication, technology has offered a great solution. For this reason, on May 28, 2020, Dr. David López, Colombian tuba player living in Washington D.C., and Patricio Cosentino, Argentinian tuba player living in Germany, started a cycle of livestreams in Spanish named Frecuencias Bajas, Charlas Musicales without being aware of the impact such space would have in the Latin American brass community.

Frecuencias Bajas, Charlas Musicales began broadcasting once per week on Instagram with an easy colloquial language that became one of the most prominent features of this program. Frecuencias Bajas, Charlas Musicales features subjects in the daily life of amateur, students, and professional musicians as well as technique, extant materials and repertoire, subjects related to performance, and Q&A sessions. Also, this space offers interviews with some of the most important players, clinicians, composers, repair technicians, orchestra conductors, and cultural managers in Latin America giving the Latin American community the possibility of accessing specialized information in the Spanish language.

The greatest minds in the world say, "an educated society is the best guarantee of progress for a nation," that is why the goal of Frecuencias Bajas, Charlas Musicales is to be a means of spreading knowledge for all brass players in Latin America.

If we pay attention to the growth that brass playing is having in Latin America from 10 years ago thanks to the great work that both performers and pedagogues are carrying out and take into account that today 90% of the literature for brass was written in other languages such as English, French, German, or Russian, this shows a thirst for progress and knowledge that it is hindered by the lack of specific literature in Spanish and Portuguese, as well as the inclusion of international entities.

Frecuencias Bajas, Charlas Musicales is even more pertinent due to the lack of materials in Spanish and Portuguese.

After five months of streaming uninterruptedly via Instagram, Frecuencias Bajas, Charlas Musicales decided to increase its reach by also streaming via Facebook.

Frecuencias Bajas, Charlas Musicales has intended to cover a broad selection of interviews with personalities from Latin America such as:

Lucas Fernandez , Colombian euphonium clinician and performer
Esteban Villegas , Costa Rican tuba clinician and performer
Herman Morales Curaz, Chilean tuba performer
Hector Alexandro Lopez, Mexican tuba clinician and performer
Harold Hernandez Lozano, Cuban tuba clinician and performer
Noelia Escalzo, Argentinian composer
Ingrith Saavedra, Panamanian tuba performer
Henry Maita Mallma, Peruvian tuba clinician and performer
Alber Savino Katthar, Brazilian tuba clinician and performer
Hugo Migliore, Argentinian euphonium performer
Nelson Corchado, Puerto Rican tuba clinician and performer
Igor Martinez, Venezuelan tuba clinician and performer
Miguel Torochik, Uruguayan tuba performer
Jorge Tagliapietra, Argentinian composer

Presently, Frecuencias Bajas, Charlas Musicales continues to livestream weekly with no interruption for 80 episodes straight, bringing the best information to all the Latin America brass community.

For the next episodes, Frecuencias Bajas, Charlas Musicales plans to do a second phase of interviews with not only Latin American euphonium and tuba performers but also with performers of other brass instruments, pedagogues, management pioneers, instrument repair technicians, instrument maker representatives, and composers among others.

This space will keep working to bring the best information closer to the Latin American brass community as well as to represent Latin America in the world.

Report of the 2^nd ETB Online Conference

Written by Alberto Tavares Dias
Translation by Bruno Brandalise Leonardi

The ETB, Brazilian Association of Euphoniums and Tubas, was created in 2017 in its first conference and according to its own website: "is an association created, maintained and directed by musician euphonium players and tuba players, with the goal of strengthening, disseminating, popularizing, and fostering repertoire for our class". As a structural pillar, ETB¹ has always held its conferences annually, with the first one occurring in 2017 at the UFRN School of Music, under the coordination of Professor Dr. Fernando Deddo. Its second conference took place in 2018 in the city of Goiânia, at the Instituto Federal De Goiás, Campus Goiânia, under the coordination of Professor Elielson Paulo Dantas de Oliveira. In turn, the third conference was held in the city of Curitiba, at the School of Music and Fine Arts of Paraná, under the coordination of Professor Bruno Brandalise Leonardi. In 2020 the association had to adapt to the pandemic moment and held its first online conference in partnership with UFPA's School of Music, under the coordination of Professor Alberto Dias. Finally, in 2021 ETB presented the 2nd ETB Online Conference 2021 - Sound Regionalization, between August 12th and 15th, under the coordination of Professors Natália Coimbra and Alberto Dias. The 2nd conference is the focus of this article and will be detailed below.

Photo of the 2018 conference. Credit: etbonline.com.br

2nd ETB Online Conference 2021 - Sound Regionalization

The 2021 event was planned throughout the first half of the year between the association's board, coordinators, and communications team.²

The second conference was composed of thirty events spread over four days and divided between the opening meeting, six recorded recitals, six warm-ups divided between euphoniums and tubas, eleven master classes also divided between ETB instruments, one lecture, six academic presentations, two round tables, and one off circuit meeting. All the Brazilian active participants were chosen through the proposal selection system, while the non-Brazilian participants were invited by the conference coordination for their respective events.³ In addition, to the professors who presented their work, the conference had 144 registered participants, mostly Brazilians, but speakers from other countries, mainly from South America, also attended.

Poster of the Second Online Conference. Art by Mariana Trigo.

The conference registration was conditioned to the association of the participants to ETB, made through the Even3 event platform, which served to organize and direct participants to its events that took place through Zoom Meetings and YouTube.

The opening meeting served as a presentation of the conference and a place to exchange information about its events and its policy of inclusion, equality, and respect for all its participants.

The warm-ups were divided between euphoniums and tubas for the best use of the participants and were the only times when all the speakers played together, even if remotely. The warm-ups were planned and executed by Professors Christian Reis, Albert Khattar, Natália Coimbra, Bruno Brandalise, Marco Antônio, and Wilthon Matos.

Warm-Up with Professor Bruno Brandalise

The master classes were held either in a single room or in rooms divided by instruments, according to the theme of the class, on several topics, such as musical style, history, technique, or interpretation. They counted with the participation of Brazilian teachers with selected proposals and teachers from other countries invited by the event's coordination. The master classes were given by teachers Ramón Benítez, Osmário Jr, Cleverson Zavatto, Thiago Osório, Everson Moraes, Bente Illevold, John Manning, Mattis Cederberg, Jason Casanova, Danielle Price, Peterson Maxwell, and Luiz Serralheiro.

Masterclass with Professor Danielle Price

A lecture took place with Professor Dr. Chris Dickey, addressing the theme of diversity.

Lecture with Dr. Chris Dickey

The six academic presentations were presented by the following authors: Iris Vieira, Elielson Dantas, Hugo Leonardo, Renato da Costa, Luís Vargas, and Severino Vidal.

Sample of an academic presentation

Two round table discussions were made. The first discussion centered on the theme of diversity, with the participation of the moderator Lucas de Souza and guests: Iris Vieira, Thiago Bernardes, and Washington Oliveira. The second discussion centered on themes referring to the association itself, under the moderation of the president and with the board members and coordinators as guests.

The diversity table with Professor Iris Vieira

Also, six divided recitals were presented, all previously recorded, edited by the communication team, and broadcast via YouTube with scheduled times, where all the lecturers attended the concerts simultaneously. The concerts varied in form, ranging from solo recitals to large groups of euphoniums and tubas. The common thread in all concerts was the central role of these instruments in the performances.

The solo artists were Andressa Luz, Gladson Leone, Mattews Sol Sol, Silas Barreto, Wilthon Matos, Rafhael Soares, John Manning, Everson Moraes, Chris Dickey, Daniel Oliveira, Iris Vieira, Jason Casanova, Luiz Ricardo Serralheiro, and Otoniel Cristiano dos Santos. Also performing were the groups EuPAraTu, Eufo-Tuba Quartet, Sexteto de Tubas do 2° Batalhão de Polícia do Exército, Dopey Monkey, Orisun, and Guêtu.

It is worth mentioning that one of the mottos of the conference was regionalization of sound, and all the soloists and groups performed pieces that in some way alluded to their region of origin, in Brazil or abroad. All the recitals from the conference are available on ETB's YouTube channel:

https://www.youtube.com/c/ETBAssocia%C3%A7%C3%A3odeEuf%C3%B4nioseTubasdoBrasil [link for online article]

Poster from a conference concert

Finally, an off circuit meeting closed the conference in a space where all those present could talk, exchange experiences, contacts, and present videos of their work or videos simply chosen from the Internet.

The 2nd ETB Online Conference provided its participants with technical, interpretative, and artistic information relevant to their development. It presented a compact and intense format, with thirty events in four days, given by important professionals and technical and artistic authorities in the Brazilian and international scene of the euphonium and tuba instruments. It fulfilled its goals of maintaining its inclusive and egalitarian position, exploring different musical styles with its proposal of sound regionalization, reaching a significant number of lecturers among teachers and students, and strengthening, divulging, popularizing and fomenting the repertoire for the euphonium and tuba class. Thus, keeping alive the ETB, which is already planning its conference for the year 2022, ⁴ which, it is hoped, will again be in a face-to-face format, providing even greater interaction among the lecturers.

Footnotes:

1. The association has as its Board of Directors: Professor Dr. Fernando Deddos as President, Professor Albert Khattar as Vice President, and Professor Bruno Brandalise Leonardi as Treasurer.

2. The current ETB Team is listed on the Association's page at the link https://www.etbonline.com.br/equipe.

3. With the exception of the participants at the Diversities table, who were invited, even though they were Brazilians, and the duo Dopey Monkey, who, despite not being Brazilian, sent a proposal to participate.

4. The planning is for the 2022 event to take place in the city of Belém, at the UFPA Music School in June.