Undergraduate Woodwinds Audition Requirements

Select a solo work and two contrasting etudes which best demonstrate your tone, range, technique, and lyric ability. The following repertoire is recommended but similar works may be substituted:

• Etudes
  
  • J. Weissenborn, Fifty advanced Studies
  • L. Milde, Concert Studies, Vols. I-II
  • L. Milde, Scale Studies

• Solos
  • Hindemith, "Sonate"
  • Mozart, Concerto in B Flat
  • Vivaldi, Concerto of your choice
  • Weber, Concerto in F
  • Saint-Saëns Sonata for bassoon and piano Gabriel Pierné, Solo de Concert 

• Mozart: Concerto (Mv I-Exposition only)
• Two Rose Etudes of your choice (Rose 32 or 40), one Melodic & one Technical Etude
• Solo of your choice; record 5-7 minutes of material that shows your strengths
• One orchestral excerpt of your choice

• Mozart: Concerto (Mv I-Exposition only)
• Two Rose Etudes of your choice (Rose 32 or 40), one Melodic & one Technical Etude
• Solo of your choice
• Two contrasting orchestral excerpts of your choice
• Major and Natural Minor Scales may be asked. Prepare three octaves, slurred with no interruption; tempo is your choice

• Expositions of the First and Second movements of the Mozart Concerto No. 1 in G major, KV 313
• Any complete work from Flute Music by French Composers, edited by Louis Moyse, published by Shirmer
• Two contrasting orchestral excerpts of the applicant's choice

• First movement of Mozart Concerto No. 1 in G major, KV 313, complete with cadenza
• Any complete work from Flute Music by French Composers, edited by Louis Moyse, published by Shirmer
• Contrasting piece of your choice
• Two standard orchestral excerpts of your choice

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. 

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

• Mozart Concerto
• Saint-Saens Sonata
• Ferling Etudes

Perform one of the works listed below. The following repertoire is recommended but similar works or combinations of pieces from the standard repertoire, representing comparable difficulty, may be substituted with prior approval:

• Creston, “Sonata”, any two movements including 2nd movement
• Glazounov, “Concerto”
• Heiden, “Sonata”