Prescreening & Audition Repertoire - Yale School of Music

Percussion Audition Information

Prescreening Recording (Video required; unedited):

• (1) a major work for either marimba or vibraphone
• (2) one piece from Elliott Carter’s Eight Pieces for Four Timpani
• (3) a solo piece for multiple percussion
• (4) an étude for snare drum

Live audition:

Each audition lasts one hour.

• (1) a major work for either marimba or vibraphone (examples of acceptable works include, but are not limited to, Minoru Miki’s Time for Marimba; Gordon Stout’s Two Mexican Dances; Steven Mackey’s See Ya Thursday; Philippe Manoury’s Le Livre des Claviers; or Franco Donatoni’s Omar)
• (2) a solo piece for multiple percussion (examples of acceptable works include, but are not limited to, Iannis Xenakis’s Rebonds or Psappha; David Lang’s Anvil Chorus; or James Wood’s Rogosanti)
• (3) Jacques Delecluse’s Étude No. 1
• (4) Anthony Cirone’s Étude No. 32
• (5) two pieces from Elliott Carter’s Eight Pieces for Four Timpani
• (6) two- and four-mallet marimba sight-reading will be required
• (7) the following orchestral excerpts: (a) timpani: Beethoven, Symphony No. 9; (b) timpani: Richard Strauss, Burleske; (c) timpani: Mozart, Symphony No. 39; (d) snare drum: Rimsky-Korsakov, Scheherazade; (e) xylophone: Messiaen, Exotic Birds; (f) glockenspiel: Debussy, La Mer

Updated on 08/28/2018