Graduate Woodwinds Audition Requirements

Unless specified, prescreen requirements are the same as listed below. 

The Frost School of Music's woodwind applicants may include piano accompaniment on their prescreen/recorded audition videos. However, it is not required nor will it be included at the live audition. 

• Prescreening & Audition

  • Contrasting solos of the candidate’s choice
  • Orchestral excerpts
    • Ravel- Bolero
    • Mozart- Marriage of Figaro Overture
    • Rimsky Korsakov- Scheherazade
    • Stravinsky- Rite of Spring

• Prescreening

  Applicants to the Master of Music and Artist Diploma

  SOLO WORKS:

  • Mozart: Concerto (Mv I-Exposition, and 2nd movement, opening through the cadenza)
  • Stravinsky: Three Pieces (Mv 1,2 & 3)
  • Contemporary Work written in last 25 years (5 minute minimum)

  EXCERPTS (Clarinet 1 parts only):

  Choose three of the following:

  • Beethoven: Symphony #6 (Mv1, 474-492 & Mv2,68-77)
  • Kodaly: Dances of Galanta (first cadenza)
  • Mendelssohn: Midsummer Nights Dream – (Scherzo, Beg. to G)
  • Rimsky Korsakov: -Capriccio Espagnol (Mv 3)
  • Stravinsky: Firebird (Variation Only)
  • Puccini-Tosca, Act III, Reh 11- Reh 12 (opening solo for Clarinet)

  Applicants to the Doctor of Musical Arts

  SOLO WORKS:

  • Mozart: Concerto (Mv I-Exposition, and 2nd movement, opening through the cadenza)
  • Stravinsky: Three Pieces (Mv 1, 2 & 3)
  • Brahms: Sonata #1 or #2 (recorded with piano) one movement
  • Contemporary Work written in last 25 years (5 minute minimum)

  EXCERPTS (Clarinet 1 parts only):

  Choose three of the following:

  • Beethoven: Symphony #6 (Mv1, 474-492 & Mv2,68-77)
  • Kodaly: Dances of Galanta (first cadenza)
  • Mendelssohn: Midsummer Nights Dream – (Scherzo, Beg. to G)
  • Rimsky Korsakov: -Capriccio Espagnol (Mv 3)
  • Stravinsky: Firebird (Variation Only)
  • Puccini-Tosca, Act III, Reh 11- Reh 12 (opening solo for Clarinet)

• Audition

  Applicants to the Master of Music and Artist Diploma

  SOLO WORKS:

  • Mozart: Concerto (Mv I-Exposition, and 2nd movement, opening through the cadenza)
  • Stravinsky: Three Pieces (Mv 1, 2 & 3)
  • Contemporary Work written in last 25 years (5 minute minimum)

  EXCERPTS (Clarinet 1 parts only):

  • Beethoven: Symphony #6 (Mv1, 474-492 & Mv2,68-77)
  • Kodaly: Dances of Galanta (first cadenza)
  • Mendelssohn: Midsummer Nights Dream – (Scherzo, Beg. to G)
  • Rimsky Korsakov: -Capriccio Espagnol (Mv 3)
  • Stravinsky: Firebird (Variation Only)
  • Puccini-Tosca, Act III, Reh 11- Reh 12 (opening solo for Clarinet)

  Applicants to the Doctor of Musical Arts

  SOLO WORKS:

  • Mozart: Concerto (Mv I-Exposition, and 2nd movement, opening through the cadenza)
  • Stravinsky: Three Pieces (Mv 1, 2 & 3)
  • Nielsen Concerto: Beginning through first cadenza (end of page three)
  • Contemporary Work written in last 25 years (5 minute minimum)
  • Piece of your choice (5-10 minutes)

  EXCERPTS (Clarinet 1 parts only):

  • Beethoven: Symphony #6 (Mv1, 474-492 & Mv2,68-77)
  • Kodaly: Dances of Galanta (first cadenza)
  • Mendelssohn: Midsummer Nights Dream – (Scherzo, Beg. to G)
  • Rimsky Korsakov: -Capriccio Espagnol (Mv 3)
  • Stravinsky: Firebird (Variation Only)
  • Puccini-Tosca, Act III, Reh 11- Reh 12 (opening solo for Clarinet)

• Prescreening 

  Master of Music and Artist Diploma

  • Expositions of first and second movements of Mozart Concerto No, 1 in G major, KV 313 OR No. 2 in D major, KV 314.
  • A selection or movement from the solo literature by Coleman, Copland, Dutilleux, Ibert, Jolivet, Leon, Loggins-Hull, Martin, Nielsen, Prokofiev, Schubert, Yi, Zyman, or equivalent
  • Three contrasting orchestral excerpts of the applicant's choice

  Doctor of Musical Arts 

  • Expositions of first and second movements of Mozart Concerto No, 1 in G major, KV 313 OR No. 2 in D major, KV 314.
  • A selection or movement from the solo literature by Coleman, Copland, Dutilleux, Ibert, Jolivet, Leon, Loggins-Hull, Martin, Nielsen, Prokofiev, Schubert, Yi, Zyman, or equivalent
  • Three contrasting orchestral excerpts of the applicant's choice

• Audition

  Master of Music and Artist Diploma

  • Two contrasting movements from a J.S. Bach Sonata or the Bach Partita in A minor.
  • Mozart Concerto No, 1 in G major, KV 313 OR No. 2 in D major, KV 314, first and second movements, complete, with cadenzas.
  • A selection or movement from the solo literature by Coleman, Copland, Dutilleux, Ibert, Jolivet, Leon, Loggins-Hull, Martin, Nielsen, Prokofiev, Schubert, Yi, Zyman, or equivalent 
  • A contemporary solo work demonstrating fluency with extended techniques
  • Three orchestral excerpts from the list below
    
    • Beethoven: Leonore Overture No. 3 
    • Debussy: Prélude à l’après midi d’un faune 
    • Hindemith: Symphonic Metamorphosis 
    • Mendelssohn: Scherzo from Midsummer Night’s Dream 
    • Prokofiev: Peter and the Wolf 
    • Prokofiev: Classical Symphony, movement 4 
    • Ravel: Daphnis et Chloe Suite No. 2
    • Rossini: William Tell Overture 
    • Saint-Saëns: Volière
    • Stravinsky: Firebird Suite, variation

  Doctor of Musical Arts

  • One of the seven sonatas or Partita by J.S. Bach, complete
  • Mozart Concerto No, 1 in G major, KV 313 OR No. 2 in D major, KV 314, complete work, with cadenzas
  • A selection or movement from the solo literature by Coleman, Copland, Dutilleux, Ibert, Jolivet, Leon, Loggins-Hull, Martin, Nielsen, Prokofiev, Schubert, Yi, Zyman, or equivalent
  • A contemporary solo work demonstrating fluency with extended techniques
  • Three orchestral excerpts from the list below
    
    • Beethoven: Leonore Overture No. 3 
    • Debussy: Prélude à l’après midi d’un faune 
    • Hindemith: Symphonic Metamorphosis 
    • Mendelssohn: Scherzo from Midsummer Night’s Dream 
    • Prokofiev: Peter and the Wolf 
    • Prokofiev: Classical Symphony, movement 4 
    • Ravel: Daphnis et Chloe Suite No. 2
    • Rossini: William Tell Overture 
    • Saint-Saëns: Volière
    • Stravinsky: Firebird Suite, variation

• Prescreening

  Select one or more pieces/movements of your choice that best demonstrate your level of technique and musicality. Total time to be less than 10 minutes. Do not play with piano accompaniment.

• Audition

  Select three contrasting solo works and/or etudes that best demonstrate your level of technique and musicality. The following repertoire are examples. Similar works may be substituted:

  • Mozart Concerto
  • Vaughan Williams Concerto
  • Strauss Concerto
  • Ferling Etudes
  • Bozza Etudes
  • Gillet Etudes

  In addition to the above, play the following orchestral excerpts:

  • Tchaikovsky Sym.#4 (2nd mvmt. solo)
  • Rossini Scala (slow solo and fast solo)

• Prescreening & Audition

  A list of suggested repertoire to perform for Graduate Saxophone auditions can be found by clicking here.

  For questions regarding Classical Saxophone auditions, please contact Professor Dale Underwood.

• Prescreening & Audition

  All Masters applicants to Multiple Woodwinds must audition on three instruments.

  For Principal Instrument

  • Flute - Mozart, Concerto in G, K.313
  • Oboe - Mozart, Concerto in C, K.314
  • Clarinet - Mozart, Concerto in A, K.622
  • Bassoon - Mozart, Concerto in B-flat, K.191
  • Saxophone - Glazunov, Concerto for Alto Saxophone

  For all chosen Secondary Instruments

  • A movement from the standard solo repertoire of each instrument that represents the applicant’s level of performance.

  All Doctoral applicants to Multiple Woodwinds must audition on three instruments, one of which must be a double reed.

  For Principal Instrument

  • Flute - Mozart, Concerto in G, K.313
  • Oboe - Mozart, Concerto in C, K.314
  • Clarinet - Mozart, Concerto in A, K.622
  • Bassoon - Mozart, Concerto in B-flat, K.191
  • Saxophone - Glazunov, Concerto for Alto Saxophone

  For all chosen Secondary Instruments

  • Two contrasting movements from the standard solo repertoire of each instrument that represents the applicant's level of performance.