Audition Information | New England Conservatory

Brass Audition Information

Prescreening portfolios are required of:

• All Composition and Jazz Composition applicants

Prescreening video recordings are required of:

• All Artist Diploma and DMA applicants, regardless of major
• All undergraduate, MM, and GD applicants to:

Trumpet (BM)

Prescreen Requirements;

Please submit a video, recorded straight through with no internal edits, of the following:

1. Charlier Étude #2, measures 1-24, as printed on B-flat trumpet
2. Beethoven Leonore Overture No. 2, offstage solo
3. A two octave B-flat (concert pitch) scale, ascending and descending, played in quarter notes at quarter note equals 120 beats per minute in a clearly articulated manner.

Audition Requirements;

1. F.J. Haydn Movement 1 (opening through development)
2. Honegger Intrada
3. Copland Outdoor Overture
4. Mahler Symphony No.5, opening solo
5. Stravinsky Petrouchka "Ballerina's Dance" (1947)

Tenor Trombone (BM)

Prescreen Requirements (BM, MM & GD);

1. Guilmant-Morceau Symphonique (Concert Piece) Op. 88: Allegro Moderato to 10 measures after the Andante Sostenuto
2. Bordogni/Rochut No. 13 in Eb major (end at m. 24)
3. Berlioz Hungarian March (Trombone 2 part): 6 measures before Fig. 4 to 2nd measure of Fig. 5
4. Mozart Requiem: Trombone II, Tuba Mirum to downbeat of m. 18.

Audition Requirements (BM);

1. Two contrasting movements of the following solos or a piece at a comparable level:
   •  Hindemith Sonata
   •  Sulek Sonata “Vox Gabrieli”
   •  Grondahl Concerto
   •  David Concertino
   •  Lars-Erik Larsson Concertino
   •  Saint-Saens Cavatine
   •  Bozza Ballade
2. One of the following etudes or others at a comparable level:
   •  Rochut – Book 1 or 2
   •  Blazhevich Clef Studies
   •  Arban’s Method, Characteristic Studies
   •  Kopprasch – Book 1 or 2
3. Three contrasting orchestral excerpts chosen from the following:
   •  Berlioz Hungarian March
   •  Mahler Symphony No.3, first movement
   •  Rossini La Gazza Ladra
   •  Rimsky-Korsakov Russian Easter Overture
   •  Ravel Bolero

Bass Trombone (BM)

Prescreen Requirements;

1. Bordogni/Rochut No. 13, m. 1-24, in two different octaves (starting on both low B-flat AND middle B-flat)
2. One technical Blazhevich etude (any edition) of the applicant’s choice
3. Berlioz Hungarian March: 6 measures before Fig. 4 to 2nd measure of Fig. 5
4. Schumann Symphony No. 3, IV Movement, first 8 measures.

Audition Requirements;

1. One of the following solos:
   •  Lebedev Concerto in One Movement
   •  Telemann Sonata in F minor, 1st and 2nd Movement
   •  Spillman Concerto, 1st Movement
   •  Any work by Eric Ewazen
2. One of the following etudes:
   •  Rochut – Book 1 (as written and down or up the octave)
   •  Blazhevich Studies (any edition)
   •  Gillis Etudes
   •  Kopprasch Studies (any edition)
3. Three contrasting orchestral excerpts of the applicant’s choice

Horn (BM)

Prescreen Requirements

1. One solo movement from the standard repertoire
2. Two contrasting etudes
3. A two octave E major scale (horn pitch), ascending and descending, played in sixteenth notes at a minimum of quarter note equals 90 beats per minute, tongued and forte
4. A three octave B harmonic minor scale (horn pitch), ascending and descending, played in sixteenth notes at a minimum of quarter note equals 90 beats per minute, slurred and piano

Audition Requirements;

1. Two contrasting solo movements from the standard repertoire.
   Examples include, but are not limited to:
   •  First Movements to Mozart No.3 and Strauss No.1
   •  First Movements to Haydn No.2 and Hindemith Sonata
   •  First Movements to Franz Strauss Concerto and Beethoven Sonata
2. Two contrasting etudes.
   Examples include, but are not limited to:
   •  Kopprasch Book No.1
   •  Gallay 12 Studies for 2nd Horn, Op.57
   •  Maxime-Alphonse Book No.2 or No.3
   •  Kling 
3. Contrasting orchestral excerpts demonstrating tone, rhythm, range, dynamic control and technique.
   Examples include, but are not limited to:
   •  Beethoven Symphony No.6
   •  Brahms Symphony No.3
   •  Tchaikovsky Symphony No.5
   •  Strauss Till Eulenspiegel
   •  Shostakovich Symphony No.5, low tutti 
4. Major and minor scales, transposition, and sight-reading are also required.

Tuba (BM)

NEC will not be accepting applications to the Tuba Performance program for the 2019-2020 academic years.

Audition Requirements;

1. Borodogni - melodic study
2. Kopprasch - technical etude
3. Excerpts:
   •  Wagner "Meistersinger" Overture (Letter J to the end)
   •  Wagner Ride of the Valkyries
   •  Berlioz Hungarian March
   •  Stravinsky Petroushka
4. Solos:
   •  Vaugn Williams Concerto (mvts.1 and 2)
   •  Hindemith Sonata for Tuba

Updated on 10/02/2018