Frost School of Music | University of Miami

Woodwinds Audition Information

Prescreen is required for Regular Decision applicants in the following areas: contemporary/CAM, jazz, flute, keyboard, tuba/euphonium, viola, and violin

Bassoon

Performance majors

• Select two or 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:
• Etudes
• J. Weissenborn, Studies,Vols. I-II
• L. Milde, Concert Studies, Vols. I-II
• J.B. Gambaro, 18 Studies
• Jancourt, Studies- 26 Melodic Studies
• Solos
• Hindemith, “Sonate”
• Mozart, “Concerto in B Flat”
• Vivaldi, “Sonate” (any one)
• Vivaldi, “Concerto” (any one)
• Weber, “Concerto in F”

All other music majors

• Select two or 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:
• Etudes
• J. Weissenborn, Studies, Vols. I-II
• L. Milde, Concert Studies, Vols. I-II
• Jancourt, Studies- 26 Melodic Studies
• Solos
• Hindemith, “Sonate”
• Mozart, “Concerto in B Flat”
• Vivaldi, “Sonate” (any one)
• Telemann, “Sonata in F minor”

Clarinet

Select two or three contrasting etudes or solos (or movements from a concerto or sonata) which best demonstrate your tone, technique and lyric ability. The following repertoire is recommended but similar works may be substituted:

• Mozart, “Concerto”
• Weber, “1st Concerto”
• Weber, “2nd Concerto”
• Orchestral excerpts of your choice

Flute

Prescreening

• First movement of Mozart Concerto No. 1 in G major, KV 313, exposition only
• Any complete work from Flute Music by French Composers, edited by Louis Moyse, published by Shirmer

On-Campus Auditions

• 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
• A movement of a work by Griffes, Hindemith, Ibert, Martin, Hue, Hanson, or equivalent
• 2 contrasting orchestral excerpts of the applicant's choice

Oboe

Select two or three contrasting etudes or solos or movements from a concerto or sonata which best demonstrate your technique and musicality. The following repertoire is recommended, but similar works may be substituted:

• Etudes by Barret or Ferling.
• Mozart- “Concerto in C, K.314”
• Saint-Saens- “Sonata”
• Hindemith- “Sonata”
• Schumann- “Three Romances, op. 94”
• Britten- “Six Metamorphoses”
• Works from the Baroque period.

Saxophone

• One of the following works is suggested:
• Creston, “Sonata”, any two movements including 2nd movement.
• Glazounov, “Concerto”
• Heiden, “Sonata”

Other pieces or combinations of pieces from the standard repertoire, representing comparable difficulty, may be substituted with prior approval.

Updated on 09/03/2018