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Brass Audition Information

Trumpet (BM)

Prescreen Repertoire (video submission)

l  Enesco Legende (all but muted ending)

l  Solo of your choice

l  Charlier Étude No. 2 Du Style in Bb on C or Bb trumpet (complete)

Please use the link at the bottom of this page to upload your preliminary materials. There is a $10 fee to use this service. If you have not heard from us by January 4, 2019, please email us.

                                                         Preliminary Dropbox

Live audition repertoire

l  Enesco Legende (all but muted ending)

l  Solo of your choice

l  Brandt Étude No. 1 on Bb trumpet 

l  Charlier Étude No. 2 Du Style in Bb on C or Bb trumpet (complete)

l  Orchestral Excerpts: 1947 Stravinsky Petrouchka (ballerina and waltz), Beethoven Leonore No. 2 (off-stage solo), Mussorgsky's Pictures at an Exhibition (opening promenade), Mahler Symphony No. 5(opening solo)

l  All major and minor scales, sight-reading and transposition

Any questions regarding your application may be directed to Geoffrey Scott.

Trombone

Please use the link at the bottom of this page to upload your preliminary materials. There is a $10 fee to use this service. If you have not heard from us by January 4, 2019, please email us.

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Tenor Trombone (BM)

Prescreen Repertoire (video submission)

Live audition Repertoire

l  Two contrasting solo pieces which demonstrate tone quality, musicianship, technique and range

l  Orchestral Excerpts:

ü  -Mozart Tuba Mirum from Requiem

ü  -Ravel Trombone Solo from Bolero

ü  -Wagner Ride of the Valkyries (both major and minor sections)

l  Major Scales two octaves

l  Sight reading (may include Tenor Clef)

Any questions regarding your application may be directed to Phyllis Smith.

Bass Trombone (BM)

• Interested undergraduate students are welcome to contact Allen Barnhill personally to discuss any questions they have about the program.
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Horn (BM)

The video submission should be recorded so that all orchestral excerpts are played in succession in any order you wish without stopping the recording or editing. Solos may be pre-recorded. 

Please use the link at the bottom of this page to upload your preliminary materials. There is a $10 fee to use this service. If you have not heard from us by January 4, 2019, please email us.

                                                         Preliminary Dropbox

Prescreen Repertoire (video submission)

l  Exposition of Mozart Concerto No. 4

l  Contrasting solo of the applicant's choice

l  Orchestral Excerpts

ü  Strauss Till Eulenspiegel (opening horn solo in first horn part)

ü  Ravel Pavane pour une infante défunte (opening horn solo in first horn part)

ü  Mahler Symphony No. 1, movement 3 (m. 13 - 15 in second horn)

ü  Shostakovich Symphony No. 5, movement 1 (#17 - 22 in first horn part)

For copies of the above orchestral excerpts, please send your name and intended degree program to Geoffrey Scott.

Live audition repertoire