Bevan Award for Outstanding Research

In 2010, the International Tuba Euphonium Association established the Clifford Bevan Award for Excellence in Research, a bienial program seeking to encourage the highest level of research in the area of low brass scholarship. The Bevan Award recognizes research on contemporary as well as historical topics, including acoustics, composition, theory, scoring, organology, performance practices, and pedagogy.

The Award was designed and funded by Dr. Bevan's colleague, Dr. Craig Kridel. Craig wanted the review committee to work together to agree on a recipient through back and forth discussion. The committee needed to represent four separate areas: 1) an organologist that specialized in tuba and euphonium, 2) an organologist that represented general organology and brass scholarship, 3) someone representing general musical research, often an organologist specializing in woodwind instruments and 4) a teaching/performing artist with some background in research. The Chair of the Committee normally participates in discussions. From 2010 to 2023, the membership of the committee remained largely consistent. After Dr. Bevan passed at the end of 2024, the ITEA ExecBoard decided to change how the award was administered. 

Recipients:

2023: Beth Mitchell, Unpublished Manuscript: "The Serpent Sourcebook." 

2021: Dave Detwiler, "The Harvard Tuba"

2019: Bernhard Rainer, "Bruckner on Valve Trombone? - Low Brass Performance Practice in Anton Bruckner's Works"

2019: Mark Jenkins, "Musicians of Unusual Merit: A Biographical History of The Euphoniumists of The President's Own United States Marine Band"

2016: David Earll, "C.G. Conn Tuba Designs from 1880-1940: An Investigation of Early Tuba Product Lines and Construction Techniques"

2014: Gail Robertson, "Restoring the Euphonium's Legacy as Cello of the Wind Band"

2014: Volny Hostiou, "Le serpent dit francais: aspects organologiques et sonores"

2012: Robin Hayward, "The Microtonal Tuba"

2010: Eugenia Mitroulia, "The Saxtromba: Fact or Fiction?"

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