new music for tuba

solo or duo works for the tuba family, with or without electronics

Anahita Abbasi, Momentum I (2023) for solo tuba

Commission supported by the Arts and Humanities Research Council of Great Britain

  • Premiere: Darmstadt Summer Courses for New Music 2024 (Darmstadt, DE), 07.08.2024

Jonas Achermann, Over-Türe (2024) for tuba and percussion

Commissioned by the Lucerne Festival

  • Premiere: KKL Luzern (Lucerne, CH), 17.11.2024 as part of TUBALIRUM at the Lucerne Festival Forward 2024

Asia Ahmetjanova, א (ALEPH) (2016) for solo tuba

Score available from Edition Gravis (Contemporary Music for Tuba collection)

  • Premiere: Darmstadt Summer Courses for New Music 2016 (Darmstadt, DE), 29.07.-14.08.2016

  • Live recording: Unerhörte Music (BKA Theatre, Berlin, DE), 24.10.2017

Asia Ahmetjanova, PROTECTION (2017) for tuba, double bass and tape

  • Premiere: Hošek Contemporary (Berlin, DE), 17.04.2019

Mark Andre, iv 16 for solo tuba

Score available from Wise Music Classical

  • Premiere: Darmstadt Summer Courses for New Music 2018 (Darmstadt, DE), 14.-28.07.2018

  • Live recording: Unerhörte Music (BKA Theatre, Berlin, DE), 03.11.2020

Georges Aperghis, Parlando (2010) for solo double bass; arranged for solo tuba (2019)

  • Premiere: Hošek Contemporary (Berlin, DE), 03.09.2020

  • Live recording: Unerhörte Music (BKA Theatre, Berlin, DE), 03.11.2020

Georges Aperghis, Ruinen (1994) for solo trombone or tuba

  • Live recording (first performance on tuba): Hochschule für Musik, Theatre und Medien Hannover (DE), 17.02.2015

Luciano Azzigotti, Incursion (2023) for tuba and feedback system

  • Premiere: Harvard University (Cambridge, MA, USA), 11.05.2023 (work-in-progress)

Nate Chivers, Placid (2020) for solo tuba

Ed Cooper, …grown up, you are grown, and feeling stronger, feeling… (2022) for tuba, heartbeat and fixed media

Commission supported by the Arts and Humanities Research Council of Great Britain

Score available from Edition Gravis (Contemporary Music for Tuba collection)

  • Premiere: Darmstadt Summer Courses for New Music 2024 (Darmstadt, DE), 17.08.2024

  • Studio recording: Manchester, UK (recorded and mixed by Aaron Holloway-Nahum), 11.-12.04.2022

Athena Corcoran-Tadd, SCWBA (2016) for solo prepared tuba

Score available from Edition Gravis (Contemporary Music for Tuba collection)

  • Premiere: Darmstadt Summer Courses for New Music 2016 (Darmstadt, DE), 29.07.-14.08.2016

  • Live recording: Hošek Contemporary (Berlin, DE), 03.09.2020

Tom Coult, La Belle Captive (2011), for tuba and piano four-hands

  • Premiere: Royal Northern College of Music (Manchester, UK), 19.06.2011

Steven Daverson, Arkanar: A Report from the Interior (2018) for tuba and live electronics

Score available from Edition Gravis (Contemporary Music for Tuba collection)

  • Premiere: Darmstadt Summer Courses for New Music 2018 (Darmstadt, DE), 14.-28.07.2018 (final version)

  • Live recording: Royal Northern College of Music (Manchester, UK), 31.10.2019

Michael Edgerton, 4 sonata: Kleine Aster nach Benn (2024) for amplified tuba

  • Premiere: Darmstadt Summer Courses for New Music 2024 (Darmstadt, DE), 13.08.2024 (work-in-progress)

Eric Skytterholm Egan, of her Skin (2017) for solo tuba

Score available from Edition Gravis (Contemporary Music for Tuba collection)

  • Premiere: Unerhörte Music (BKA Theatre, Berlin, DE), 24.10.2017

Michael Finnissy, Berliner Tuba (2021) for solo tuba

Commission supported by the Arts and Humanities Research Council of Great Britain

Score available from Edition Gravis (Contemporary Music for Tuba collection)

  • Premiere: Darmstadt Summer Courses for New Music 2024 (Darmstadt, DE), 15.08.2024

  • Studio recording: Manchester, UK (recorded and mixed by Aaron Holloway-Nahum), 11.-12.04.2022

Edo Frenkel, Megaphone (2018) for solo amplified muted tuba and tape

  • Premiere: Stony Brook University (Stony Brook, NY, USA), 30.01.2018 (work-in-progress)

Patrick Friel, a different tune (2021) for voice and tuba

  • Premiere: Unerhörte Music (BKA Theatre, Berlin, DE), 05.10.2021 (with Lore Lixenburg, voice)

Patrick Friel, Ezra’s Telescope (2017) for solo tuba

Score available from Edition Gravis (Contemporary Music for Tuba collection)

  • Premiere: Unerhörte Music (BKA Theatre, Berlin, DE), 24.10.2017

  • Live recording: Stony Brook University (Stony Brook, NY, USA), 30.01.2018

Fernando Garnero, Trans-étude #4: Intérieur (2022) for tuba, field recordings, and live electronics

  • Premiere: Collection Lambert (Avignon, FR) (final version), 13.11.2023

  • Live recording: Unerhörte Music (BKA Theatre, Berlin, DE), 20.02.2024

Thomas Gerwin, Prozedere (2015) for tuba/euphonium, recorders and electronics

  • Premiere: Intersonanzen Festival (Potsdam, DE), 24.04.2016 (with Ivo Berg, recorders)

Bára Gísladóttir, RÓL (og gól (roll & goal)) (2023) for tuba and live electronics

  • Premiere: Darmstadt Summer Courses for New Music 2024 (Darmstadt, DE), 07.08.2024

  • Live recording (starts at 34:59): Ernst von Siemens Prize Ceremony (Herkulessaal der Münchner Residenz, Munich, DE), 18.05.2024

Vinko Globokar, Juriritubaïoka (1997) for tuba and piano

  • Hochschule der Stadt Basel (Basel, CH), 28.01.2015 (first performance to composer), with Helga Karen (piano)

  • Live recording: Darmstadt Summer Courses for New Music 2014 (Darmstadt, DE), 14.08.2014, with Asia Ahmetjanova (piano)

Saim Gülay, Today, The Eternity (2018) for tuba solo

  • Premiere: Bilkent University (Ankara, TR), 15.12.2018

Isabel Benito Gutiérrez, Audiovisual conversations (2019) for tuba and piano

  • Premiere and live recording: Royal Northern College of Music (Manchester, UK) with Bofan Ma (piano), 31.10.2019

Haukur þór Harðarson, Air and Blood (2018) for tuba and live electronics

Score available from Edition Gravis (Contemporary Music for Tuba collection)

Commission supported by Initiative Neue Musik Berlin

  • Premiere: Labor Neunzehn (Berlin, DE), 10.12.2017

Emily Howard, Chaos or Chess (2016) for solo tuba

Commission supported by The Leverhulme Trust through an Artist in Residence grant Lasse Rempe-Gillen’s 2012 Philip Leverhulme Prize

  • Premiere: BBC Proms Extra (London, UK), 25.08.2016

Martin Iddon, Λαμπάδες [Lampades] (2020) for tubist and fixed media

Winner of the Ivors Composers Award for Solo Composition 2021

  • Darmstadt Summer Courses for New Music 2024 (Darmstadt, DE), 07.08.2024

  • Live recording: Unerhörte Music (BKA Theatre, Berlin, DE), 03.11.2020

Evan Johnson, Rückenfigur (2016) for solo tuba

Score available from Edition Gravis (Contemporary Music for Tuba collection)

  • Darmstadt Summer Courses for New Music 2016 (Darmstadt, DE), 29.07.-14.08.2016

  • Studio recording: Oxford, UK (recorded and mixed by Nigel McBride), 05.03.2017

Daniel Kalantari, We are here because we are here (2021) for amplified solo tuba

Score available from Edition Gravis (Contemporary Music for Tuba collection)

  • Premiere: Musikhögskolan i Malmö (Malmö, SE), 14.10.2022

    Studio recording: Manchester, UK (recorded and mixed by Aaron Holloway-Nahum), 11.-12.04.2022

Nadir Kaya, uba deconstructed in 7even steps (2018) for solo tuba

  • Premiere: Bilkent University (Ankara, TR), 15.12.2018

Marina Kifferstein, Löyly (2017) for tuba and violin

  • Premiere: CLCLR (Berlin, DE), 05.09.2017

Bofan Ma, offset iii (b) - etude for tuba (2018) for a solo tubist

  • Premiere: Darmstadt Summer Courses for New Music 2018 (Darmstadt, DE), 14.-28.07.2018

  • Live recording: Royal Northern College of Music (Manchester, UK), 31.10.2019

Sylvain Marty, Discreet 2 (2018) for solo tuba

Score available from Edition Gravis (Contemporary Music for Tuba collection)

  • Premiere: Labor Neunzehn (Berlin, DE), 02.12.2018

Elo Masing, the ghost kettle (2024) for tuba and feedback system

  • Premiere: Unerhörte Music (BKA Theatre, Berlin, DE), 20.02.2024

  • Studio recording: Zepernick, DE (recorded and mixed by Dietrich Petzold (tonus arcus)), 03.05.2024

Christian Mason, The Singing Sea (2018) for solo tuba

Commission supported by Initiative Neue Musik Berlin

  • Premiere: Labor Neunzehn (Berlin, DE), 02.12.2018 (final version)

Nigel McBride, come, from nothing (2016) for tuba solo

Score available from Edition Gravis (Contemporary Music for Tuba collection)

  • Darmstadt Summer Courses for New Music 2016 (Darmstadt, DE), 29.07.-14.08.2016

    Studio recording: Oxford, UK, 05.03.2017

Sarah Nemstov, <watcher> (2021) for tuba and tape

  • Premiere: Lucerne Festival 2022 (Lucerne, CH), 29.08.2022

  • Studio recording: Manchester, UK (recorded and mixed by Aaron Holloway-Nahum), 11.-12.04.2022

Simon Parkin, MORE SO (2005) for solo tuba

  • Premiere: Royal Northern College of Music (Manchester, UK), 19.06.2011

Alan Perrin, Soundless musical ideas hear occasionally or Hear occasionally soundless musical ideas …. (2018) for solo tuba

  • Premiere: Sonic Arts Research Centre, Queen’s University (Belfast, NI), 25.10.2018

Ulrich Pogoda, Integration (2016) for tuba and recorders

  • Premiere: Intersonanzen Festival (Potsdam, DE), 24.04.2016 (with Ivo Berg, recorders)

Sophie Pope, Something Sacred (2015) for solo tuba

  • Premiere: University of Leeds International Concert Series (Leeds, UK), 12.03.2020

Jesse Ronneau, , aber es werden Geister … (2019) for tuba, contrabass clarinet and live electronics

Score available from Edition Gravis (Contemporary Music for Tuba collection)

  • Premiere: Hošek Contemporary (Berlin, DE), 10.07.2019 (with Ingólfur Vilhjálmsson (contrabass clarinet)

Jesse Ronneau, Blight (2024) for serpent

  • Premiere: 18th Festival Síntese, Centro de Cultura Contemporánea de Castelo Branco (Castelo Branco, PT), 28.09.2024

Jesse Ronneau, ...bloßer Klang und Nachschall. (2023) for tuba and live electronics

Commission supported by Deutsche Musikrat (Neustart Kultur)

Score available from Edition Gravis (Contemporary Music for Tuba collection)

  • Premiere: Contemporary Insights Salon (Leipzig, DE), 29.04.2023

  • Studio recording: Schildau, DE, 20.04.2024 (awaiting release)

Jesse Ronneau, Carthage (2018) for solo tuba

Score available from Edition Gravis (Contemporary Music for Tuba collection)

Commission supported by Initiative Neue Musik Berlin

  • Premiere: Darmstadt Summer Courses for New Music 2018 (Darmstadt, DE), 14.-28.07.2018

  • Studio recording: Schildau, DE, 02.07.2021

Rainer Rubbert, Depth (2018) for solo tuba

Score available from Edition Gravis (Contemporary Music for Tuba collection)

Commission supported by Initiative Neue Musik Berlin

  • Premiere: Darmstadt Summer Courses for New Music 2018 (Darmstadt, DE), 14.-28.07.2018

  • Live recording: Unerhörte Music (BKA Theatre, Berlin, DE), 03.11.2020

Scott Rubin, ironic erratic erotic (2017) for dancer, tuba, double bass and motion-sensitive live electronics

  • Premiere: Hošek Contemporary (Berlin, DE), 17.04.2019

Andreas F. Staffel, Capriccio for Hardy (2020) for tuba and plush animals

Robin Stevens, Supplication (2010) for tuba and piano

  • Premiere: Royal Northern College of Music (Manchester, UK), 19.06.2011

Wolfgang Thiel, Winterballade (2002) for tuba and organ

  • Premiere: Intersonanzen Festival (Potsdam, DE), 24.04.2016 (with Tobias Scheetz, organ)

Gordon Williamson, Odd Couple #22 (2022) for electric guitar and tuba

Raimonda Žiūkaitė, Obsessed with me (2024) for tuba, electronics and video

  • Premiere: klangzeitort: Zoom+Focus (Berlin, DE), 11.02.2024

Raimonda Žiūkaitė, [Untitled] (2024) for tuba and voice

  • Premiere: Lucerne Festival, KKL (Lucerne, CH), 18.08.2024