2025 Euphonium Foundation Consortium Membership

Sponsored by the Euphonium Foundation (a registered 501c3) and helping create 3 new works for euphonium in various genres.

You can choose each individual project or join all three.

Membership Options

Individual Piece Memberships

All three pieces (piano reduction of the David Concerto)

Large Ensemble Membership of the David Concerto

Large Ensemble Membership and the Stahl/Deddos Works

Project 1 - Euphonium and String Quartet by Sonya Leonore Stahl

Entitled "The Metal is Ready,"  this work will continue the 2023 project for euphonium and strings.  The composer states - "At a pivotal moment in Cecil B. DeMille’s The Ten Commandments, DeMille himself as narrator delivers a powerful monologue. Describing Moses’s journey into the desert, he concludes with
“Until at last, at the end of human strength, beaten into the dust from which he came, the metal
is ready for the Maker’s Hand.” That line has always moved me deeply, and I’ve chosen “The
Metal is Ready” as my title for so many reasons: in honor of the sentence’s ringing paean to
resilience, to evoke a lifted sword, because I have a “metal” name (Stahl)... or maybe just
because the piece includes one of my deepest loves, a metal instrument from the low brass family!"

Project 2 - Euphonium and Piano by Fernando Deddos

Brazlian composer, Fernando Deddos will be creating a work for euphonium and piano,  Choro de Isla, in the Brazilian choro style with an island flavor that is dedicated to his visit to the Jeju International Brass Competition in Jeju, South Korea in 2024.  The work will be around 5 minutes and the parts will be playable an accessible work for multiple levels ranging from advanced high school to college to adult level players.  

Project 3 - Euphonium and Wind Band (with piano reduction) by James David

You can find more details at www.euphoniumfoundation.org and https://www.jamesmdavid.com/euphonium-concerto.html

We anticiapte delivering the music in middle to late November.  Consortium members will have the option to receive digital (preferred) or physical copies of the music.  The Large Ensemble parts for the David Concerto will be delivered digitally).  Information will be sent in late November about delivery.  The EXCLUSIVE premiere period for consortium members will run until January 1, 2026-December 31, 2026.

About the composers

James David
Dr. James M. David (b. 1978) is an American composer and professor of music theory and composition at Colorado State University.  His symphonic works have been performed and recorded by many prominent ensembles including the U.S. Air Force Band, the U.S. Army Band “Pershing’s Own”, the U.S. Army Field Band, the U.S. Navy Band, the Des Moines Symphony Orchestra, the Fort Collins Symphony Orchestra, the Showa Wind Symphony (Japan), the Osaka Shion Wind Orchestra, and the North Texas Wind Symphony.  His music has been performed at more than sixty national and international conferences including the Midwest Clinic, the College Band Directors National Association Biennial Conference, the American Bandmasters Association Convention, the World Association for Symphonic Bands and Ensembles Conference, the International Clarinet Fest, the International Trombone Festival, the Percussive Arts Society International Convention, the International Horn Symposium, and the World Saxophone Congress. Dr. David was the winner of the 2024 CBDNA Frederick Fennell Prize, the 2022 William D. Revelli Composition Contest, named a three-time finalist for the Sousa-ABA Ostwald Award, winner of an ASCAP Morton Gould Award, and won national contests sponsored by the Music Teachers National Association and the National Association of Composers (USA). Commissions include projects for the National Band Association, the Atlantic Coast Conference Band Directors Association, Joseph Alessi (New York Philharmonic), John Bruce Yeh (Chicago Symphony), James Markey (Boston Symphony), and hundreds of university faculty and ensembles. His works are represented on over twenty commercially released recordings on the Naxos, Summit, Mark, Albany, Parma, MSR Classics, Bravo Music, GIA Windworks, and Luminescence labels and are published by Murphy Music Press, C. Alan Publications, Potenza Publishing, and Excelsia Music.About the Composers




Fernando Deddos
Fernando Deddos acts globally as a composer, euphoniumist and professor. He is currently an associate professor of the UFRN – Federal University of Rio Grande do Norte State in Natal, Brazil, since 2016.
Besides his participation in interdisciplinary, chamber music and Brazilian popular music projects as euphoniumist, pianist, conductor and composer, Deddos recorded the very first euphonium album in Brazil (EuFonium Brasileiro (2009), which received the International Tuba & Euphonium Association’s Roger Bobo Awards for excellence in recording (Arizona, 2010). 
Deddos has received three times the Harvey Phillips Awards by ITEA for excellence in composition, and has been member of international competitions committees such as Trombonanza, ITEC, Falcone Festival, IET, Colombian Euphonium Competition, Brazilian National Euphonium and Tuba Association Competition, Cascavel Music Festival and Gramado in Concert International Festival (Brazil), judging performance and composition. In 2017, the Montevideo Philharmonic premiered his Concerto Grosso for Brass Quinte and Symphony Orchestra, along with the Porto Alegre Brass Quintet.




Sonya Leonore Stahl
Sonya Leonore Stahl (1981) is a violinist with Gainesville Orchestra and Ocala Symphony Orchestra, and was state fiddle champion at the 2011 Florida Folk Festival. She studied with Janna Lower and Paul Richards at University of Florida, and her compositions center love, nature, faith, and fairy-tales.
 
Her "Solutions" was performed by the Professors' Choir at the 2022 Southeast Trombone Symposium and the Cramer Choir at the 2023 International Trombone Festival, and her "Song of the Rose" appears on Jemmie Robertson's Red Dragonfly album. In 2023 she won a prize in Bemidji State University Silent Voices Festival, and in 2024 the Edinburgh University Brass Band selected her "Piltdown Man" winner of their composition contest.
 
She previously spent two decades working with fruits and vegetables, both in scientific research and wholesale logistics, and was the winner of the Florida State Horticultural Society’s Best Paper for her 2021 review of bamboo shoot freshness.