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Brass audition information

 

Trumpet (BM)

Prescreen Repertoire

- Piano accompaniment is preferred but not required.

- One movement of a standard solo work (concerto or sonata) or  five to eight minutes from a single-movement work.

  1. - One etude of the applicant's choice.
  2. - Three standard orchestral excerpts.

Live Audition Repertoire

- Two etudes showing the applicant’s level of technical and musical advancement.

  1. - At least one major solo of the applicant’s choice.
  2. - Three to five standard orchestral excerpts.

Accompanist information

Works with piano accompaniment must be accompanied for the live audition.

  • We encourage you to use a Juilliard accompanist for your audition.
  • Accompanists will be provided free of charge for the audition; please note that accompanists charge fees for rehearsals.
  • A list of accompanists will be provided approximately two weeks before auditions. You must contact an accompanist from the list two weeks prior to your audition and provide him/her with a piano score of the repertoire for the audition.
  • If you wish to bring your own accompanist, you may do so. However, Juilliard will not pay him/her, nor can your Juilliard audition be rescheduled around your accompanist's availability.
  • If you plan to play with a Juilliard-provided accompanist, please carefully consider general familiarity of your repertoire. Juilliard cannot guarantee accompanists will know unusual or non-standard repertoire. Please be particularly mindful to select contemporary works that have become standard repertoire or have piano parts which are easily sight read. If the Juilliard accompanists hired for your audition day are unable to learn or sight read a non-standard work, you may need to play that work unaccompanied.

 

Tenor Trombone (BM)

Prescreen Repertoire

- B-flat, C, and D Major and minor (harmonic) scales, played in two octaves (detached), starting from low B-flat, C, and D, all in the staff in bas    s clef.

  1. - Two etudes showing the applicant’s level of technical and musical advancement.
  2. - At least one major solo of the applicant’s choice.
  3. - The following orchestral excerpts:
    • - MOZART: Requiem, K. 626 (“Tuba mirum”)
    • - ROSSINI: La Gazza Ladra
    • - RAVEL: Bolero
    • - MAHLER 3: 3 measures after #13 to #17.

Live Audition Repertoire

- B-flat, C, and D Major and minor (harmonic) scales, played in two octaves (detached), starting from low B-flat, C, and D, all in the 

  1.   staff in bass clef.
  2. - Two etudes showing the applicant’s level of technical and musical advancement.
  3. - At least one major solo of the applicant’s choice.
  4. - The following orchestral excerpts:
    • - MOZART: Requiem, K. 626 (“Tuba mirum”)
    • - ROSSINI: La Gazza Ladra
    • - RAVEL: Bolero
    • - MAHLER 3: 3 measures after #13 to #17.

 

Bass Trombone (BM)

Prescreen Repertoire

Prescreening is not required for this major. 

 

Live Audition Repertoire

- Two etudes showing the applicant’s level of technical and musical advancement.

  1. - One major solo of the applicant’s choice.
  2. - Four contrasting standard orchestral excerpts.
  3. - Major and minor scales.

 

French horn (BM)

Prescreen Repertoire

- Please choose one from each group to be played without repeats (for a total of two selections):

 

Group A

Kopprasch Book 1, No. 3

  • Kopprasch Book 1, No. 17
  • Kopprasch Book 1, No. 29

Group B

Kopprasch Book 1, No. 15

  • Kopprasch Book 1, No. 22

Live Audition Repertoire

- Two etudes, of the applicant's choice, showing the applicant’s level of technical and musical advancement. (It is not necessary that   the repertoire prepared for the live audition be identical to the pre-screening materials.)

  1. - At least one major solo of the applicant’s choice.
  2. - Three to six standard orchestral excerpts.
  3. - Additional evaluation such as sight-reading, ear-training, range/register exploration, and scales might be required during the audition.

 

Tuba (BM)

Prescreen Repertoire

Prescreening is not required for this major. 

 

Live Audition Repertoire

- Two etudes showing the applicant’s level of technical and musical advancement

- At least one major solo of the applicant’s choice

- Four contrasting standard orchestral excerpts

- Major and minor scales

 

 

 

 

 

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