Prescreening & Audition Repertoire - Yale School of Music

Woodwind Audition Information

Flute

Prescreening Recording (Video required):

• (1) Sonatine of Dutilleux (with piano)
• (2) the second movement of Mozart’s Concerto in D Major (with piano)
• (3) on piccolo: Rossini’s Semiramide Overture (select one of the standard excerpts)
• (4) a work of the applicant’s choice (complete work preferred)

Live Audition (pianist required):

• (1) Jolivet’s Chant de Linos
• (2) from memory: the second movement of Mozart’s Concerto i

Oboe

Prescreening Recording (Audio or Video; piano required, where applicable):

Applicants provide fifteen to twenty minutes of music of their choice, sampled from each of the following:

• (1) a major sonata
• (2) a solo piece or étude
• (3) a major concerto
• (4) four varied orchestral excerpts

Live Audition (pianist required):

• (1) two movements of a major sonata
• (2) two movements of a Baroque concerto, sonata, or solo piece
• (3) two movements of a major concerto (with cadenzas where applicable)
• (4) six varied orchestral excerpts

Clarinet

Prescreening Recording (Audio or Video):

• (1) exposition of the Mozart Concerto with accompaniment, orchestral or piano
• (2) Stravinsky: second of the Three Pieces for solo clarinet
• (3) Mendelssohn: Scherzo from A Midsummer Night’s Dream (through the trill passages)
• (4) exposition of a Brahms clarinet sonata of the applicant’s choice with piano
• (5) a five-minute selection of the applicant’s choice that shows his or her best qualities, preferably a contemporary work

Live Audition:

Selections from the above may be requested, in addition to possible sight-reading.

Bassoon

Prescreening Recording (Video preferred; piano required, where applicable):

Applicants provide no more than fifteen minutes of their playing, excerpted from the following:

• (1) a sonata or other non-concerto work for bassoon and piano
• (2) a concerto
• (3) two to four varied orchestral excerpts

Live Audition (pianist required):

• (1) at least two movements of a major sonata or other non-concerto work for bassoon and piano
• (2) at least two movements of a major concerto (with cadenzas where applicable)
• (3) six varied orchestral excerpts

Updated on 08/28/2018