Unless specified, prescreen requirements are the same as listed below.
French Horn
- All major scales; 2 octaves in eighth notes at metronome mark 100
- Select two to three contrasting etudes or solos (or movements from a concerto or sonata) which best demonstrate your tone, range, technique, and lyric ability. The following repertoire is recommended, but similar works may be substituted.
- Choose one Etude from the following:
- Concert Etude #1 - Complete Method for the Horn by Oscar Franz (2 pages)
- Two (2) contrasting etudes from either Kopprasch, Mueller, or Maxime Alphonse
- One Mvt. from either a Strauss or Mozart Concerto. No cadenza necessary.
- Orchestral Excerpts
- Tchaikovsky #5 solo
- Beethoven #6 3rd and 5th Mvts.
- Strauss, "Til Eulenspiegel"
- Wagner, "Siegfried Rhine Journey" (short call)
In addition to the requirements above, you will be expected to sight-read.
Trombone
Select two (2) contrasting etudes or solos (or movements from a sonata or concerto) which best demonstrate your tone, range, technique, and lyric ability. The following repertoire is recommended, but similar works may be substituted:
- Etudes
- Bordogni-Rochut, Melodious Etudes
- Blazhevich, Clef Studies
- Arban, Characteristic Studies
- Solos
- David, "Concertino"
- Galliard-Brown, "Sonatas"
- Grondahl, "Concerto"
- Guilmant, "Morceau Symphonique"
- Jacob, "Concerto" first movement
- Lebedev, Concerto in One Movement (bass trombone)
- Marcello, "Sonatas"
In addition to the above requirements, please prepare the following orchestral excerpts:
- Tenor Trombone
- Mozart, "Tuba Mirum" from Requiem
- Rossini "La Gazza Ladra"
- Bass Trombone
- Haydn, "The Creation"
- Berlioz, "Hungarian March"
In addition to the above requirements, you will be expected to sight-read.
Note: Prior to the audition, all applicants are encouraged to confirm their audition material via email with Professor Tim Conner.
Prescreening
- One Etude of the applicant's choice
- Choose ONE of the following:
- One movement of a standard solo work (concerto or sonata) or
- A short solo piece (five to eight minutes) or
- Five to eight minutes from a single-movement work
- Repertoire chosen should demonstrate the applicant's musical and technical ability and interest
Live/Regional Audition
- Two contrasting etudes
- One or two solos of the applicant's choice (typically 8-15 minutes of music)
- Three orchestral excerpts
Repertoire chosen should demonstrate the full scope of the applicant's musical and technical ability and interest.
Tuba & Euphonium
Select two or three contrasting etudes or solos (or movements from a concerto or sonata) totaling six minutes which best demonstrate your tone, range, technique, and lyric ability. The following repertoire is recommended but similar works may be substituted.
Performance Majors
- Etudes
- Blazhevich, 70 Studies, Book II
- Bordogni-Roberts, 43 Bel Canto Studies
- Kopprasch, 60 Selected Studies, Book II
- Maenz, 12 Spezialstudien
- Sear, Etudes
- Solos
- Bach-Bixby, "Bach for Tuba"
- Hindemith, "Sonate"
- Persichetti, "Serenade #12"
- Swann, "Two Moods"
- Vaughan Williams, "Concerto"
- Wilder, "Suite #1 (Effie)"
All other music majors
- Etudes
- Blazhevich, 70 Studies, Book I
- Bordogni-Roberts, 43 Bel Canto Studies
- Tyrrell, Advanced Studies
- Kopprasch, 60 Selected Studies
- Solos
- Bach-Bell, "Air & Bourree"
- Beethoven-Bell, "Variations on a Theme by Handel (Judas Macabeus) "Haddad, "Suite"
- Hartley, "Suite"
- Holmes, "Carnival of Venice"
- Ernest Williams, "Second Concerto"
In addition to the above requirements, you will be expected to sight-read.
