Accompaniment is not required for recorded or live auditions.
Bassoon
Applicants to all degrees
- Contrasting solos of the candidate’s choice
- Orchestral excerpts
- Ravel- Bolero
- Mozart- Marriage of Figaro Overture
- Rimsky Korsakov- Scheherazade
- Stravinsky- Rite of Spring
Clarinet
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
Flute
All graduate candidates in flute performance required to upload a prescreen audition to SlideRoom by December 1.
Prescreening
- Two contrasting movements of a twentieth or twenty-first century piece
- Two contrasting movements of a Bach Sonata
- Two or three orchestral excerpts from the list below.
Live Audition
- Select one from the following:
- Griffes Poem
- Ibert Concerto
- Nielson Concerto
- Khatchaturian Concerto
- Similar work of the applicant's choice
- One of the following:
- Bach Sonata
- Mozart Concerto
- Solos from the following orchestral works:
- Ravel- Daphnis and Chloe
- Hindemith- Symphonic Metamorphosis
- Mendelssohn- A Midsummer Night’s Dream
Oboe
Applicants to the Master of Music
- Mozart- Oboe Concerto in C, K.314
- One of the following:
- Saint-Saens- Oboe Sonata, Opus 166 (movements 1 and 3)
- Schumann- Three Romances, Opus 94 (movements 1 and 2)
- The following orchestral excerpts:
- Brahms- Violin Concerto (2nd movement, Solo)
- Rossini- Overture, The Silken Ladder (Fast Solo)
- Ravel- Le Tombeau de Couperin (3rd movement, Opening Solo)
Applicants to the Doctor of Musical Arts
- Mozart- Oboe Concerto in C, K.314
- One of the following:
- Britten- Six Metamorphosis After Ovid (select 3 movements)
- Vaughan Williams- Oboe Concerto (1st movement)
- The following orchestral excerpts:
- Brahms- Violin Concerto (2nd movement, Solo)
- Rossini- Overture, The Silken Ladder (Fast Solo)
- Ravel- Le Tombeau de Couperin (3rd movement, Opening Solo)
Applicants to the Artist Diploma
- Mozart- Oboe Concerto in C, K.314
- One of the following:
- Poulenc- Oboe Sonata (2nd movement)
- Hindemith- Oboe Sonata (2nd movement)
- The following orchestral excerpts:
- Brahms- Violin Concerto (2nd movement, Solo)
- Rossini- Overture, The Silken Ladder (Fast Solo)
- Ravel- Le Tombeau de Couperin (3rd movement, Opening Solo)
Saxophone
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.
Multiple Woodwinds
Applicants to the Master of Music
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.
Applicants to the Doctor of Musical Arts
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.
