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Graduate Music Audition Requirements & Repertoire - UNCSA

Brass Audition Requirements

 

Instrumental & Composition Applicants
Graduate Audition Dates

Friday, January 25, 2019
Friday, February 8, 2019
Friday, February 22, 2019

Scholarship Consideration
Students who audition after February 9, 2019  will not be eligible for merit scholarship consideration.

 

Trumpet (MM)

  • Haydn or Hummel Concerto (complete work)
  • One movement of a 20th or 21st century work 
  • 5-7 standard orchestral excerpts, including piccolo trumpet
  • Familiarity with Eb and piccolo trumpets 
  • Demonstrate the ability to sight-read and transpose

 

If you have any questions about the audition process or requirements, please contact trumpet professor David Dash at dashd@uncsa.edu

 

Trombone (MM)

 

Tenor Trombone:

  • Complete movement from a standard concerto for trombone (e.g., Grondahl, Hindemith)
  • All major and minor scales
  • Two contrasting  etudes (i.e. technical and lyrical)
  • Three orchestral excerpts: Ravel, Bolero; Mozart, Requiem Tuba Mirum – 2nd part;  Berlioz, Hungarian March – 2nd part
  • Sight-reading 

 

Bass Trombone:

  • Bach, Sarabande from Suite No. 5 for unaccompanied cello
  • Complete movement from a standard concerto for bass trombone (e.g. Ewazen etc.)
  • Two contrasting etudes  (i.e. technical and lyrical)
  • Major and minor scales
  • Three orchestral excerpts: Wagner, Ride;  Berlioz, Hungarian March,  Kodaly, Hary Janos

 

If you have any questions about the audition process or repertoire, please contact trombone professor John Ilika at ilikaj@uncsa.edu.

 

Horn (MM)

  • Two contrasting works or movements from standard repertoire (Mozart, Strauss, etc.)
  • 3-5 standard orchestral excerpts of your choice
  • Major and minor scales
  • Sight-reading

 

If you have any questions about the audition process or requirements, please contact horn professor Dr. Maria Serkin at serkinm@uncsa.edu.

 

Euphonium (MM)

  • Two complete major works for euphonium (Friedrich, Curnow, etc.)
  • One Rochut etude of the applicant’s choice
  • One characteristic study from Arbans Method of the applicant’s choice
  • Five standard band excerpts of the your choice
  • All major and minor scales
  • Demonstrate the ability to sight-read

 

If you have any questions about the audition process or requirements, please contact tuba/euphonium professor Mark Norman at normanm@uncsa.edu.

 

Tuba (MM)

  • Two complete major works for tuba (Vaughan-Williams, Gregson, Barnes, Wilhelm, etc. )
  • Two etudes for tuba, one Rochut/Bordogni and one Bousquet
  • Five standard orchestral excerpts of the applicant’s choice
  • All major and minor scales
  • Demonstrate the ability to sight-read

 

If you have any questions about the audition process or requirements, please contact tuba/euphonium professor Mark Norman at normanm@uncsa.edu.

 

 

Updated on 10/12/2018