Undergraduate Brass Audition Requirements

Unless specified, the Frost School of Music prescreen requirements are the same as listed below.

• Prescreening

  • Exposition from either Mozart Concerto 2, 3, OR 4, candidates choice 
  • Mueller - Etude No. 3 
  • Orchestral Excerpts
    • Strauss - "Till Eulenspiegel" opening 
    • Tchaikovsky 5th - slow movement solo 
    • Wagner - "Siegfried's Rhine Journey" short call

• Audition

  • Mozart Concerto 2, 3, OR 4 complete first movement, candidates choice, no cadenza 
  • Mueller - Etude No. 3 
  • Strauss - Concerto No. 1 1st Movement 
  • Orchestral Excerpts
    • Strauss "Till Eulenspiegel" - opening 
    • Mussorgsky - Promenade solo Pictures at an Exhibition 
    • Tchaikovsky 5th - slow movement solo 
    • Wagner - "Siegfried's Rhine Journey" short call  

  In addition to the requirements above, you will be expected to sight-read.

• Prescreening & Audition

  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

• 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.

• Prescreening & Audition - Performance Majors

  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.

  • 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)"

  In addition to the above requirements, you will be expected to sight-read.

• Prescreening & Audition - All Other Majors

  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.

  • 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.