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Brass Audition Information

 

Trumpet

Prescreen Requirements

Please submit an audio recording of 5-10 minutes that is representative of your ability. The musical selections do not necessarily need to come from the audition requirements.

Live Audition Requirements

  • Please play the selections indicated for your prospective degree program in the order listed
  • Graduate candidates may use any key trumpet they prefer
  • No memorization is required
  • It is not required to have a pianist for any audition, though you are welcome to use piano if it is convenient. If playing without piano, count out all rests as marked
  • For additional questions, please contact Professor Chris Gekker.

Master of Music, 15 minutes

  1. A. Honegger Intrada — complete
  2. H. Stevens Sonata for Trumpet and Piano, first movement —complete
  3. Orchestral excerpts

o    Moussorsky - Ravel Pictures at an Exhibition, Promenade

o    Mahler - Symphony no. 5, opening

o    Beethoven - Leonore Overtures no. 2 and 3, offstage calls

Doctor of Musical Arts

  1. A. Honegger Intrada — complete
  2. F. J. Haydn or J.N.Hummel Concerto, complete
  3. orchestral excerpts

o    Moussorsky - Ravel Pictures at an Exhibition, Promenade

o    Mahler - Symphony No. 5, opening, and solo at 13

o    Beethoven - Leonore Overtures no. 2 and 3, offstage calls

o    Ravel - Piano Concerto, first movement

 

Trombone: Tenor

Master of Music, Doctor of Musical Arts

1. One movement each from two contrasting standard solos, chosen from:

ü  Sonata – Eric Ewazen

ü  Arrows of Time – Richard Peaslee

ü  Concerto – Launy Grondahl

ü  Piece in Eb minor – J.G. Ropartz

ü  Concerto – Henri Tomasi

ü  Concerto for Alto Trombone – J.G. Albrechtsberger

ü  Sonatine – Jacques Casterede

2. Two contrasting etudes of the candidate's choice
3. Three standard orchestral excerpts of the candidate's choice

4. All major and minor scales
5. Sight reading

 

Trombone: Bass

Master of Music, Doctor of Musical Arts

1. One movement from two contrasting standard solos, chosen from:

ü  New Orleans – Eugene Bozza

ü  Unaccompanied Suite for Bass Trombone – Eric Culver

ü  Concerto for Bass Trombone – Eric Ewazen

ü  Concerto for Bass Tuba and Orchestra – Vaughan Williams

ü  Sonata for Bass Trombone and Piano – Alec Wilder

ü  Meditation – Frigyes Hidas

ü  Sonata – David Gillingham

2. Two contrasting etudes of the candidate's choice
3. Three standard orchestral excerpts of the candidate's choice

4. All major and minor scales
5. Sight reading

 

Horn

  1. A first movement of a major concerto or similar work
  2. Three-five standard orchestral audition excerpts of your choice
  3. Other repertoire (which may include solos, etudes, or excerpts) of your choice, if needed, to fill out a program of 30 minutes for the MM and 60 minutes for the DMA. Selected portions will be heard

Live Audition Requirement

1. Please choose two contrasting solo works prepared in their entirety from the following:

        Forster           Concerto for Horn and Orchestra

          Gliere            Concerto for Horn, Op. 91

          Hindemith      Horn Sonata in F

          Mozart         Concerto No. 4, K. 495 with cadenza

          Persichetti       Parable for Solo Horn

          Rossini           Prelude, Theme and Variations

          Schumann      Adagio and Allegro

          R. Strauss       Horn Concerto No. 2 in E flat Major

          Telemann       Concerto for Horn in D

          Weber           Concertino in E minor for Horn and Orchestra

2. Please choose six orchestral excerpts from the following (all first horn parts unless noted otherwise)

            Bach           Brandenburg Concerto No. 1 (Entire)

                                B Minor Mass (opening)

            Bruckner       Symphony No. 4 (1st movement, Opening to letter A)

            Beethoven     Symphony No. 3 (trio, 2nd horn)

                                Symphony No. 7 (1st movement)

                                Symphony No. 9 (4th horn solo)

            Brahms          Symphony No. 2 (1st mvt D horn solo; 2nd mvt B horn solo)

            Mendelssohn  Symphony No. 3 (Scherzo, 3rd horn)

            Shostakovich  Symphony No. 5 (low horn tutti)

            Strauss          Ein Heldenleben (opening)

            Wagner         Siefgried (long call)

3. Please choose any two contrasting etudes from the following:

          Maxim-Alphonse        Deux Cents Etudes Nouvelle; Cahier 5 or 6

            Gallay                       12 Grand Caprices for Solo Horn, op. 32

            Kling                        40 Studies

4. Bach: Cello Suite No. 2 (Wendell Hoss Edition) 

 

Euphonium

  1. A first movement of a major concerto or similar work
  2. Three-five standard orchestral audition excerpts of your choice
  3. Other repertoire (which may include solos, etudes, or excerpts) of your choice, if needed, to fill out a program of 30 minutes for the MM and 60 minutes for the DMA. Selected portions will be heard

 

Tuba

Master of Music, Doctor of Musical Arts

  1. A first movement of a major concerto or similar work
  2. Three-five standard orchestral audition excerpts of your choice
  3. Other repertoire (which may include solos, etudes, or excerpts) of your choice, if needed, to fill out a program of 30 minutes for the MM and 60 minutes for the DMA. Selected portions will be heard

 

Updated on 09/14/2018