Frost School of Music | University of Miami

Brass Audition Information

Prescreen is required for Regular Decision applicants in the following areas: contemporary/CAM, jazz, flute, keyboard, tuba/euphonium, viola, and violin

Trumpet

All majors

• All major scales - Two (2) octaves when possible.
• One (1) etude of the applicant's choice that demonstrates the student's complete musical and technical abilities.
• At least one (1) movement from one of the following pieces (multiple pieces may be selected if desired):
• Haydn Concerto
• Hummel Concerto
• Hindemith Sonata
• Kennan Sonata
• Stevens Sonata

Performance majors:

Applicants for the Instrumental Performance program should also perform the following orchestral excerpts:

• Mussorgsky - Pictures at an Exhibition - Promenade
• Stravinsky - Petrushka; Ballerina's Dance
• Respighi - Pines of Rome; offstage solo

In addition to the above requirements, you will be expected to sight-read.

Trombone

Select two (2) contrasting etudes or solos (or movements from a sonata or concerto) which best demonstrate your tone, range, technique, and lyric ability. The following repertoire is recommended, but similar works may be substituted:

• Etudes
• Bordogni-Rochut, Melodious Etudes
• Blazhevich, Clef Studies
• Kopprasch, Selected Studies
• Arban, Characteristic Studies
• Solos
• David, "Concertino"
• Galliard-Brown, "Sonatas"
• Grondahl, "Concerto"
• Guilmant, "Morceau Symphonique"
• Hindemith, "Sonata"
• Jacob, "Concerto" first movement
• Marcello, "Sonatas"

In addition to the above requirements, please prepare the following orchestral excerpts:

• Orchestral Excerpts
• Mozart, "Tuba Mirum" from Requiem
• Rossini "La Gazza Ladra"

In addition to the above requirements, you will be expected to sight-read.

Horn

• All major scales; 2 octaves in eighth notes at metronome mark 100
• Select two to three contrasting etudes or solos (or movements from a concerto or sonata) which best demonstrate your tone, range, technique, and lyric ability. The following repertoire is recommended, but similar works may be substituted.
• Choose one Etude from the following:
• Concert Etude #1 - Complete Method for the Horn by Oscar Franz (2 pages)
• Two (2) contrasting etudes from either Kopprasch, Mueller, or Maxime Alphonse
• One Movement from either a Strauss or Mozart Concerto. No cadenza necessary.
• Orchestral Excerpts
• Tchaikovsky #5 solo
• Beethoven #6 3rd and 5th Mvts.
• Strauss, "Til Eulenspiegel"
• Wagner, "Siegfried Rhine Journey" (short call)

In addition to the requirements above, you will be expected to sight-read

Tuba & Euphonium

Prescreening and On-Campus Audition Requirements

Select two or three contrasting etudes or solos (or movements from a concerto or sonata) which best demonstrate your tone, range, technique and lyric ability. The following repertoire is recommended but similar works may be substituted.

Performance Majors

• Etudes
• Blazhevich, 70 Studies, Book II
• Bordogni-Roberts, 43 Bel Canto Studies
• Kopprasch, 60 Selected Studies, Book II
• Maenz, 12 Spezialstudien
• Sear, Etudes
• Solos
• Bach-Bixby, "Bach for Tuba"
• Hindemith, "Sonate"
• Persichetti, "Serenade #12"
• Swann, "Two Moods"
• Vaughan Williams, "Concerto"
• Wilder, "Suite #1 (Effie)"

All other music majors

• Etudes
• Blazhevich, 70 Studies, Book I
• Bordogni-Roberts, 43 Bel Canto Studies
• Tyrrell, Advanced Studies
• Kopprasch, 60 Selected Studies
• Solos
• Bach-Bell, "Air & Bourree"
• Beethoven-Bell, "Variations on a Theme by Handel (Judas Macabeus)"Haddad, "Suite"
• Hartley, "Suite"
• Holmes, "Carnival of Venice"
• Ernest Williams, "Second Concerto"

In addition to the above requirements, you will be expected to sight-read.

Updated 0n 09/03/2018