Music at the Juilliard School
Brass audition information
Trumpet (BM)
Prescreen
Repertoire
- Piano accompaniment is preferred but not
required.
- One movement of a standard solo work (concerto or sonata) or five
to eight minutes from a single-movement work.
- - One etude of the applicant's choice.
- - Three standard orchestral excerpts.
Live
Audition Repertoire
- Two etudes showing the applicant’s level of technical and
musical advancement.
- - At least one major solo of the applicant’s choice.
- - Three to five standard orchestral excerpts.
Accompanist
information
Works with piano accompaniment must be accompanied for the live
audition.
- We encourage you to use a Juilliard accompanist for your
audition.
- Accompanists will be provided free of charge for the audition;
please note that accompanists charge fees for rehearsals.
- A list of accompanists will be provided approximately two weeks
before auditions. You must contact an accompanist from the list two weeks
prior to your audition and provide him/her with a piano score of the
repertoire for the audition.
- If you wish to bring your own accompanist, you may do so.
However, Juilliard will not pay him/her, nor can your Juilliard audition
be rescheduled around your accompanist's availability.
- If you plan to play with a Juilliard-provided accompanist,
please carefully consider general familiarity of your repertoire.
Juilliard cannot guarantee accompanists will know unusual or non-standard
repertoire. Please be particularly mindful to select contemporary works
that have become standard repertoire or have piano parts which are easily
sight read. If the Juilliard accompanists hired for your audition day are
unable to learn or sight read a non-standard work, you may need to play
that work unaccompanied.
Tenor Trombone (BM)
Prescreen
Repertoire
- B-flat, C, and D Major and minor (harmonic) scales, played in
two octaves (detached), starting from low B-flat, C, and D, all in the
staff in bas s clef.
- - Two etudes showing the applicant’s level of technical and
musical advancement.
- - At least one major solo of the applicant’s choice.
- - The following orchestral excerpts:
- - MOZART: Requiem, K. 626 (“Tuba mirum”)
- - ROSSINI: La Gazza Ladra
- - RAVEL: Bolero
- - MAHLER 3: 3 measures after #13 to #17.
Live
Audition Repertoire
- B-flat, C, and D Major and minor (harmonic) scales, played in
two octaves (detached), starting from low B-flat, C, and D, all in the
- staff in bass clef.
- - Two etudes showing the applicant’s level of technical and
musical advancement.
- - At least one major solo of the applicant’s choice.
- - The following orchestral excerpts:
- - MOZART: Requiem, K. 626 (“Tuba mirum”)
- - ROSSINI: La Gazza Ladra
- - RAVEL: Bolero
- - MAHLER 3: 3 measures after #13 to #17.
Bass Trombone (BM)
Prescreen
Repertoire
Prescreening is not required for this
major.
Live
Audition Repertoire
- Two etudes showing the applicant’s level of technical and
musical advancement.
- - One major solo of the applicant’s choice.
- - Four contrasting standard orchestral excerpts.
- - Major and minor scales.
French horn (BM)
Prescreen
Repertoire
- Please choose one from each group to be
played without repeats (for a total of two selections):
Group A
Kopprasch Book 1, No. 3
- Kopprasch Book 1, No. 17
- Kopprasch Book 1, No. 29
Group B
Kopprasch Book 1, No. 15
Live
Audition Repertoire
- Two etudes, of the applicant's choice, showing the applicant’s
level of technical and musical advancement. (It is not necessary that the
repertoire prepared for the live audition be identical to the
pre-screening materials.)
- - At least one major solo of the applicant’s choice.
- - Three to six standard orchestral excerpts.
- - Additional evaluation such as sight-reading, ear-training,
range/register exploration, and scales might be required during the
audition.
Tuba (BM)
Prescreen
Repertoire
Prescreening is not required for this
major.
Live
Audition Repertoire
- Two etudes showing the applicant’s level of
technical and musical advancement
- At least one major solo of the applicant’s
choice
- Four contrasting standard orchestral
excerpts
- Major and minor scales
Updated on 03/19/2019