Conservatory - Colburn School

Under/Graduate Brass

Alumni Share Tips for Audition Success

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Trumpet

Prescreening Repertoire

The first step of the audition process is for you, the applicant, to upload a prescreening video by the December 1st application deadline. Piano accompaniment is preferred, but not required, for prescreening. The prescreening recording must contain the following repertoire:

1. One etude
2. One movement of a concerto or sonata
3. Three orchestral excerpts

Live Audition Repertoire

If you are invited to audition, you must prepare works from each category listed below. Memorization of audition repertoire is recommended but not required; scales must be memorized. Piano accompaniment is required. A list of pianists will be provided.

Chosen material should represent the candidate’s highest level of proficiency, and should demonstrate musicality, lyrical playing, and technical facility.

Etudes
Two contrasting etudes of the applicant’s choice

Suggested etudes for BM and PD applicants

• Arban Characteristic Etudes
• Clark Characteristic Etudes
• Bousquet
• or the equivalent of these etudes.

Suggested etudes for MM, AD and PSC applicants
• Charlier
• Chaynes
• Bitsch
• Tomasi

Or the equivalent of these etudes

Concerto/Sonata

Two contrasting movements from a standard concerto or sonata

Orchestral Excerpts
• BM and PD students: Prepare 3 contrasting excerpts from the standard orchestral repertoire.
• MM, AD and PSC students: Prepare 5 contrasting excerpts from the standard orchestral repertoire.

Sight-Reading and Transposition
required of all applicants.

Trombone (Tenor)

Prescreening Repertoire

The first step of the audition process is for you, the applicant, to upload a prescreening video recording by the December 1st application deadline. Piano accompaniment is preferred, but not required, for prescreening. The prescreening video recording must contain the following repertoire:

1. One etude from Bordogni Melodious Etudes, Book One (Rochut)
2. Two contrasting movements from a solo of the applicant’s choice
3. Orchestral excerpts:

• Mozart Tuba Mirum from the Requiem
• Rossini Overture to La Gazza Ladra (from the Keith Brown orchestral excerpts books) – All 3 excerpts
• Wagner Tannhauser Overture – the 3/4 section

Live Audition Repertoire

Bachelor of Music (BM) and Performance Diploma (PD) Applicants

If you are invited to audition, you must prepare works from each category listed below. Piano accompaniment is required. A list of pianists will be provided.

Scales
All major and minor scales, two octaves, both slurred and tongued.

Etudes
• Blazhevich Clef Studies (bass, tenor and alto clefs) – Etudes #67 and #71.

Solo Work
One slow and one fast movement from a concerto of the applicant’s choice
OR
Choose one of the following:
• Guilmant Morceau Symphonique
• Lars-Erik Larsson Concertino
• Serocki Sonatine

Orchestral Excerpts
• Berlioz Hungarian March
• Mozart Tuba Mirum from the Requiem
• Ravel Bolero
• Rossini Overture to La Gazza Ladra (all sections)
• Wagner Ride of the Valkyries (major and minor sections)

Master of Music (MM), Artist Diploma (AD) and Professional Studies Certificate (PSC) Applicants

Scales
All major and minor scales, two octaves, both slurred and tongued.

Etudes
• Blazhevich Clef Studies (bass, tenor and alto clefs) – Etudes #67 and #71.

Solo Work
Choose one of the following:
• Casterede Sonatine
• Defaye Deux Danses
• Grondahl Concerto
• Martin Ballade
• Sulek Vox Gabrieli

Orchestral Excerpts
• Berlioz Hungarian March
• Mahler Symphony No. 3 (first solo)
• Mozart Tuba Mirum from the Requiem
• Ravel Bolero
• Rossini Overture to La Gazza Ladra (all sections)
• Wagner Ride of the Valkyries (major and minor sections)

Trombone (Bass)

Prescreening Repertoire

The first step of the audition process is for you, the applicant, to upload a prescreening video by the December 1st application deadline. Piano accompaniment is preferred, but not required, for precreening. The prescreening recording must contain the following repertoire:

1. One etude from Bordogni Melodious Etudes, Book One (Rochut), played down an octave
2. Two contrasting movements from a solo of the applicant’s choice
3. Orchestral excerpts:

• Haydn Creation
• Wagner Ride of the Valkyries (B major section only)

Live Audition Repertoire

Bachelor of Music (BM) and Performance Diploma (PD) Applicants

If you are invited to audition, you must prepare works from each category listed below. Piano accompaniment is required. A list of pianists will be provided.

Scales
All major and minor scales, two octaves, both slurred and tongued

Etudes
One etude from EACH of the following:
• Fink Studies in Legato OR Bordogni Melodious Etudes Book One (Rochut) – The Bordogni must be played at pitch and also in bass clef down an octave.
• Blume 36 Studies for F attachment Trombone – Choose one non-legato etude.
• Grigoriev 24 Studies for Bass Trombone

Solo Work
Choose ONE of the following:
• Galliard – One sonata (applicant’s choice)
• McCarty Sonata
• One slow and one fast movement from a concerto of the applicant’s choice
• Two contrasting short solos

Orchestral Excerpts
• Berlioz Hungarian March
• Franck Symphony in d minor
• Haydn Creation
• Wagner Ride of the Valkyries (major and minor sections)

Master of Music (MM), Artist Diploma (AD) and Professional Studies Certificate (PSC) Applicants

If you are invited to audition, you must prepare works from each category listed below. Piano accompaniment is required. A list of pianists will be provided

Scales
All major and minor scales at least two octaves, both slurred and tongued

Etudes
One etude from EACH of the following:
• Bordogni Melodious Etudes Book One (Rochut) – The Bordogni must be played at pitch and also in bass clef down an octave.
• Blume 36 Studies for F attachment Trombone
• Grigoriev 24 Studies for Bass Trombone

Solo Work
• Bach Sarabande from Cello Suite No. 5
AND
Two contrasting movements from one of the following:
• Ewazen Concerto
• McCarty Sonata
• Ritter-George Concerto

Orchestral Excerpts
• Berlioz Hungarian March
• Haydn Creation
• Kodaly Hary Janos Suite
• Schumann Symphony No. 3 “Rhenish” (fourth movement)
• Strauss Ein Heldenleben
• Wagner Ride of the Valkyries (major and minor sections)

Horn

Prescreening Repertoire

The first step of the audition process is for you, the applicant, to upload a prescreening video by the December 1st application deadline. Piano accompaniment is preferred but not required for prescreening. The video recording must contain the following repertoire:

• Bach: Sarabande from Suite No. 5 for Solo Cello, arr. Hoss (p. 33); no repeats
• Mozart: Concerto #4, first movement, exposition only
• Schumann: Adagio (All) and Allegro – up to letter D, or to the 18th bar
• Strauss: Ein Heldenleben, opening
• Strauss: Til Eulenspiegel, opening
• Wagner: Siegfried’s Rhine Journey, short call

Live Audition Repertoire

If you are invited to audition, the live audition repertoire is the same as above. Memorization of the concerto is encouraged, but not required. Piano accompaniment is required. A list of pianists will be provided if you are invited.

Tuba

Prescreening Repertoire

The first step of the audition process is for you, the applicant, to upload a prescreening video by the December 1st application deadline. Piano accompaniment is required. The prescreening recording must contain the following repertoire:

• One etude from Bordogni Solfeggi for Tuba (published by Encore Music or Robert King)
• Two contrasting movements from a solo of the applicant’s choice, such as:
• Concertos by Ralph Vaughan Williams, John Williams or Edward Gregson
• Sonata by Bruce Broughton, Three Miniatures by Anthony Plog, etc.
• Orchestral Excerpts
• Berlioz, Hungarian March from The Damnation of Faust
• Prokofiev, Symphony No. 5 (first movement, rehearsal number 3 up to 7 measures after rehearsal number 5)
• Wagner, Overture to Die Meistersinger (Letter J, measure 158, to Letter L, measure 188)
• Wagner, Ride of the Valkyries

Live Audition Repertoire

If you are invited to audition, you must prepare works from each category listed below. Piano accompaniment is required. A list of pianists will be provided.

Repertoire requirements are the same for both undergraduate and graduate programs.

Etudes
One etude from Bordogni Solfeggi for Tuba (published by Encore Music or Robert King)

Solo Work
Two contrasting movements from a solo of the applicant’s choice, such as:

• Concertos by Ralph Williams, John Williams or Edward Gregson
  • Sonata by Bruce Broughton, Three Miniatures by Anthony Plog, etc.

Orchestral Excerpts
• Berlioz, Hungarian March from The Damnation of Faust
• Hindemith, Symphonic Metamorphosis (second movement, from Letter L to 9 measures after Letter M)
• Mahler, Symphony No. 1 (third movement, measures 15-24)
• Prokofiev, Symphony No. 5 (first movement, rehearsal number 3 to 7 measures after rehearsal number 5)
• Strauss, Till Eulenspiegel (three measures before rehearsal number 37 to four measures before rehearsal number 38)
• Wagner, Overture to Die Meistersinger (Letter J, measure 158, to Letter L, measure 188)
• Wagner, Ride of the Valkyries

Updated on 08/09/2018