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 & Audition

  Applicants to the Master of Music and Artist Diploma

  • Mozart Concerto
  • One complete piece of your choice from the Classical or Romantic periods
  • One contemporary piece of your choice
  • Three contrasting orchestral excerpts of your choice

  Applicants to the Doctor of Musical Arts

  • Mozart Concerto
  • One complete piece of your choice from the Classical or Romantic periods
  • One contemporary piece of your choice
  • Either the Copland or Nielsen Concerto
  • Three contrasting orchestral excerpts of your choice

• Prescreening 

  All graduate candidates in flute performance are required to upload a prescreen audition to SlideRoom by December 1. 

  • First movement of Mozart Concerto No, 1 in G major, KV 313 OR No. 2 in D major, KV 314, exposition only
  • A selection from the solo literature by Coleman, Copland, Dutilleux, Ibert, Jolivet, Leon, Loggins-Hull, Martin, Nielsen, Prokofiev, Schubert, Zyman, or equivalent

• Audition

  • One of the seven sonatas by J.S. Bach, complete
  • Mozart Concerto No, 1 in G major, KV 313 OR No. 2 in D major, KV 314, complete work
  • A selection from the solo literature by Coleman, Copland, Dutilleux, Ibert, Jolivet, Leon, Loggins-Hull, Martin, Nielsen, Prokofiev, Schubert, Zyman, or equivalent 
  • A contemporary solo work demonstrating fluency with extended techniques
  • 3 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 
    • Rossini: William Tell Overture 
    • Stravinsky: Firebird Suite, variation

• Prescreening

  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 accompaniment.

• Audition

  • Mozart - Concerto in C, K.314 (complete 1st movement, with cadenza)
  • Vaughan Williams - Concerto (complete 1st movement) OR Britten - Six Metamorphoses (Phaeton, Niobe, Bacchus, Arethusa)
  • One slow movement from a work by J.S. Bach
  • Orchestral excerpts:
    • Brahms - Violin Concerto (2nd movement solo)
    • Rossini - Overture, La Scala di Seta fast solo
  • Sight-reading may be asked

• 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.