Live audition or a video recording uploaded to the application portal. The audition must contain 15-20 minutes of selections from the following:
- Two solo works representing different historical periods and styles. Memorization is preferred but not required.
- One movement from a concerto, including a cadenza (Handel, Mozart, Ravel, etc.) Memorization is preferred, but not required.
- Two orchestra excerpts and two cadenzas from the lists below. Memorization is not required.
- Choose two orchestra excerpts from the list below:
- Bartok – Concerto for Orchestra, 4th movement, 119 to 127 and 345 to 356
- Berlioz – Symphonie Fantastique, 2nd movement, opening through the downbeat of six measures before 25 and 32 to 33
- Strauss – Don Juan, E to six measures before G and 3 after M to N
- Strauss – Salome “Dance of the Seven Veils,” six after P to seven before S
- Stravinsky – Symphony in Three Movements, 2nd movement, two before 118 to 120 and 122 to one before 125
- Verdi – La Forza del Destino, G to H and N to O
- Wagner – Die Walküre, “Magic Fire Music,” Act III, scene 3 (all)
- Choose two cadenzas from the list below:
- Britten – Young Person’s Guide to the Orchestra, cadenza, all of Variation J, and Fugue from letter I until two measures after J
- Ravel – Tzigane, 4 to two before 5
- Rimsky-Korsakov – Capriccio Espagnol, cadenza and from S through 14 after S
- Tchaikovsky – Nutcracker Waltz of the Flowers, opening arpeggios and cadenza
