Suggested solos for students to use at Solo and Ensemble Festivals
Solos that are Best for 6th Graders
Air Noble
Conqueror
Happy Song
Pied Piper
The Rooster
Jacques Robert
Leonard B. Smith/Leonard Falcone
Edmund J. Siennicki
Forrest L. Buchtel
Edmund J. Siennicki
Solos that are best for 7th graders
In the Hall of the Mountain King
Minuet in G
Minstrel Boy
Polovetsian Dances
Sparkles
The Young Prince
Edvard Grieg/G. E. Holmes
J.S. Bach/Ronald C. Dishinger
Forrest L. Buchte
Alexander Borodin/Forrest L. Buchtel
Floyd O. Harris
Floyd O. Harris
Solos that are Best for 8th Graders
Asleep in the Deep
Brass Bangles
Carnival of Venice
Evening in the country
Honor and Arms
The Jolly Peasant
March of the Marionette
Ocean Beach
Pavane Pour Infante Défunte
Red Canyons
Toreador’s Song form Carmen
Henry W. Petrie/Harold L. Walters
Floyd O. Harris
Henry W. Davis
Bela Bartok/Floyd O. Harris
Frederick Handel/Allen Ostrander
Robert Schumann/G. E. Holme
Charles Gounod/Harold L. Walters
Floyd O. Harris
Maurice Ravel/Ronald Dishinger
Clair W. Johnson
Georges Bizet/G. E. Holmes
Solos that are Best for advanced 8th graders and 9th Graders
Arioso (From Cantata No. 156)
Concert Aria
Concert Rondo (k. 371)
Fancy Free
Fantasy for Trombone
Mirror Lake
My Regards
Prelude and Minuet
Rhapsody for Euphonium
Rondo
Romanze
The Bride of the Waves
Tramp, Tramp, Tramp
Johann Sebastian Bach/H.R. Kent
W. A. Mozart/H. Voxman
W. A. Mozart/Jay Ernst
Clay Smith
James Curnow
Edward Montgomery
Edward Llewellyn
Arcangelo Corelli/Richard E. Powell
James Curnow
W. A. Mozart/Ronald Dishinger
Gustav Cords
Herbert L. Clarke
Edwin Franko Goldman/Theo M. Tobani
Solos that are Best for 10th and 11th graders
Allegro Spiritoso
Andante et Allegro
Andante and Rondo
Annie Laurie
Beautiful Colorado
Carnival of Venice
Brandenburg Concerto (for Trombone)
Concerto Rondo-Bassoon Concerto mvt. 3
Fote Dance Suite (Unaccompanied)
Grand Concerto
Introduction and Dance
Phantasy Piece Op. 10, #2
Minuet‐ Scherzo
Appassionata
Scene De Concert
Solo De Concours
Sonata (any one)
Sonata in F major
Sonata in F minor
Suite for Baritone
Toccata in the Style of Frescobaldi Gaspar
Starlight (Waltz Caprice)
Variations on a Theme of Schumann
Jean Baptiste Senaille/Leonard Falcone
J. Ed. Barat
Antonio Capuzzi/Philip Catelinet
Arthur Pryor/Robert Geisler
Joseph De Luca
Herbert L. Clarke/Arthur
Nikolai Rimsky‐Korsakov
W. A. Mozart/Richard
Brian Isreal
Friedebald Grafe
J. Ed. Barat/Glenn Smith
Burnet Tuthill
Joseph De Luca
Carl Maria von Weber/P. X. Laube
Max F. Denmark
Paul Veronge de la Nux
Johann Galliard/Karl Fussl/Keith Brown
Benedetto Marcello/Allen Ostrander
Georg Philipp Telemann/Allen Ostrander
Don Haddad
Gaspar Cassado/Keith Brown (tenor clef) S
Arthur Pryor
Robert Schumann/William Davis
Solos that are Best for advanced 12 graders and college students
Allegro et Finale
Andante et Allegro
Believe me, If All those Endearing Young
Charms
Blue Bells of Scotland
Carnival of Venice
Concert Fantasie
Concertino Op. 4
Concertino #1 in B flat Major
Concerto Mvt. 1 (K. 191 for Bassoon)
Euphonium Concerto
Fantasia
Fantasia di Concert
Introduction and Polonaise
Lyric Suite
Morceau Symphonique, Op. 88
Pantomime
Ricercare #1 (Unaccompanied)
Sonata for Euphonium
Sonata in C Major
Symphonic Variants
Eugéne Bozza
J. Guy Ropartz/A. Shapiro
Simone Mantia/David Werden
Arthur Pryor
J. B. Arban/Edwin Franko Goldman
Gustav Cords
Ferdinand David
Julius Klengel/Leonard Falcone
W. A. Mozart/Allen Ostrander
Joseph Horovitz
Gordon Jacob
Edoardo Boccalari
Max Denmark
Donald H. White
Alexandre Guilmant/E. Falaguerra
Phillip Sparke
Andrea Gabrieli
David Uber
Johann Friedrich Fasch/Fromme
James Curnow
Suggested solos for euphonium soloist and Band
Andante et Allegro
Believe me, If All those Endearing Young
Charms
Blue Bells of Scotland
Beautiful Colorado
Carnival of Venice
Danny Boy
Fantasia
Fantasia di Concerto
Fantasy for Trombone
Introduction and Dance
Mirror Lake
Morceau Symphonique, Op. 88
My Regards
Napoli
Rhapsody for Euphonium
Symphonic Variants
The Bride of the Waves
J. Ed. Barat/Loren Marsteller
Simone Mantia/David Werden
Arthur Pryor/Pearson
Joseph De Luca
Herbert L. Clarke
Traditional/Lewis Buckley
Gordon Jacob
Edoardo Boccalari
James Curnow
J. Ed. Barat
Edward Montgomery
Alexandre Guilmant/Shepard
Edward Llewellyn
Herman Bellstedt
James Curnow
James Curnow
Herbert L. Clarke