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Woodwind Audition Information

BASSOON AUDITIONS

• Two contrasting movements or etudes
• Scales: major and minor
• Students applying for the performance major should also prepare three orchestral excerpts.

Suggested repertoire includes works of: 

• Bozza
• Galliard
• Saint-Saëns
• Tansman
• Telemann
• Concertos of Mozart, Weber, Hummel, or Vivaldi
• Etudes of Orefici, Milde or Weissenborn. 

Faculty Contact: Eric Stomberg, stomberg@ku.edu

CLARINET AUDITIONS

• Scales: full-range chromatic, major and minor.
• Two contrasting movements from the standard repertoire which can include two contrasting etudes.
• Performance majors (B.M. Clarinet) should also include three stylistically contrasting orchestral excerpts.
• Suggested composers include Weber, Saint-Saens, Poulenc, Finzi, Rose, Cavallini, Mozart, or Debussy. 

Faculty Contact: Stephanie Zelnick, zelnick@ku.edu

FLUTE AUDITIONS

Audition consists of all of the following: 

1) One Baroque sonata (Bach, Handel, Quantz, Telemann, or Vivaldi)

2) One piece from the French Conservatory repertoire (repertoire from the Flute Music By French Composers or a piece of equivalent difficulty)

3) Sight reading

4) ​Scales: Full-range chromatic scale; major and minor scales of two or more octaves.  

Contact: Daniel Velasco, dvelasco@ku.edu

OBOE AUDITIONS

• Scales
1. Full-range chromatic
2. All major scales
3. Minor scales in any form up to four sharps and four flats.  
• Two solo selections demonstrating contrasting style and tempo. Selections may be from the same work.  

Suggested repertoire includes concerti or sonatas by:

• Marcello
• Haydn
• Vivaldi
• Handel
• Saint Saëns
• Poulenc.
• Etudes by Ferling or Barret are also acceptable. 

Faculty Contact: Margaret Marco, mmarco@ku.edu

SAXOPHONE AUDITIONS

1. Scales: full-range chromatic and major scales. 
2. Two movements or etudes of contrasting style and tempo.

Examples of satisfactory audition repertoire include:

• Lunde Sonata
• Bonneau Suite
• Bozza Aria
• Eccles Sonata
• Rueff Chanson et Passepied
• Voxman Selected Studies
• Bassi Virtuoso Studies
• Ferling 48 Etudes.

It should be noted that these are merely examples of audition repertoire, but pieces of comparable difficulty are accepted. 

Faculty Contact: Vince Gnojek, vgnojek@ku.edu

Updated on 09/13/2018