Tubalate

Tubalate is a professional tuba-euphonium quartet based out of England. Their efforts in low brass chamber music have taken them to places like Russia, the United States, Latvia, and many other locales. The group was awarded the prestigious Professional Performance Diploma from the Royal Northern College of Music. Since then, these guys have been constantly pushing the envelope in developing repertoire.

Tubalate encourage educational projects, working in collaboration with organisations such as The Society for the Promotion of New Music (SPNM). The quartet also offers a range of educational concerts and workshops. They have given masterclasses at major music conservatoires including the Royal Northern College of Music (RNCM), Liverpool Institute of Performing Arts (LIPA), the Welsh College of Music and Drama and the St. Petersburg (Russia), and Riga (Latvia) Conservatoires.

Tubalate has completed four recording projects: Light Metal, Episodes, Move, and a CD of contemporary works called Earth and Moon. They are also affiliated with Besson.

Though this group is not a college group, I thought it was important to show trends in tuba-euphonium quartet in a country other than the United States and to demonstrate yet another group's commitment to advancing tuba-euphonium literature. Check out the following list of pieces that Tubalate has either commissioned or written:

After the Long Trick	Hywel Davies
Ale and Arty	Colin Bayliss
Almost a Fugue	Georg Pelecis
Basics, The	Roy Newsome
Blue the Blue Hour	Michael Spakowski
Cheap Labour	Peter Reynolds
Chorus of Inner Voices (2), A	Paul Mitchell-Davidson
Conversation with a room	Owen Bourne
Dancing Music	Michael Spakowski
Earth & Moon	Hugh Collins-Rice
Efflorescent	Torstein Aagard-Nilsen
Episodes	John Reeman
Et Tu Bop	Geoff Keating
Exit Pursued by a Bear	Paul Mitchell-Davidson
Fellscape	Stuart Scott
Gowbarrow Gavotte	Andrew Seivewright
Hamish	Geoff Keating
Heights of Halifax, The	Ian McQueen
I Saw a Snake	Frederick Naftel
Invocation	Alan Langford
Jubilate for Tubalat¨¦	Roy Newsome
La Valse	David Solomons
Le'Go	John Reeman
Loch Ness (A lonely Vigil)	Philip Henderson
Lyke Wake Dirge, The	Colin Bayliss
Male Voice for Brass	Raymond Parfrey
March - FROT	Simon Kerwin
March of the Hare	Peter Crump
Means of Production	Roddy Skeaping
Memory Trace	Peter McGarr
Move	Matt Davidson
Octave Variations	David Stoll
Pascal's Victim	Frederick Naftel
Pastorale and Ostinato	Julian Dale
Pieces of Eight	David Solomons
Prayer before the Close of Day	David Solomons
Quartet	Michael Regan
Rest and Recreation	Howard Skempton
Shall We Dance?	Geoff Keating
String of Tones, A	Anthony Roper
Sweet Sorrow	Geoff Keating
Tants	David Solomons
Tears	Donald Bousted
There Be Giants	Ian McQueen
Three Piece Suite	Timothy Moore
Tributes to Tunesmiths	Raymond Parfrey
Tubafication	Paul Mitchell-Davidson
Tubafusion	Derek Wood
Tubalat¨¦ Tanze	Judith Bailey
U Phone Ye Mum	Kristofer Wahlander
Uraborus	Paul Newland
Variations on a Yiddish Folksong	Michael Spakowski
Visages	Guto Puw