Audition Music
Flute
1- Flute Concerto in G, K. 313 - First Movement bars 31 to 92 View Excerpt W.A. Mozart
2 - Don Juan View Excerpt Strauss
3 - Symphony No. 4 View Excerpt Brahms
4 - Symphony No. 8 View Excerpt Dvorak
5 - La Voliere View Excerpt Camille Saint-Saëns
6 - Semiramide Overture
Piccolo
View Excerpt Rossini
Oboe
1 - Oboe Concerto - First Movement bars 32 - 97 View Excerpt W.A. Mozart
2 - La Scala di Seta Overture - Solo View Excerpt Gioacchino Rossini
3 - Don Juan (2 excerpts) View Excerpt R. Strauss
4 - Symphony No. 9 View Excerpt Schubert
5 - Roman Carnival Overture
Optional English Horn Excerpt
View Excerpt Berlioz
Clarinet
1 - Clarinet Concerto - 1st movement (exposition)
in A
View Excerpt W.A. Mozart
2 - Symphony No. 8 - Tempo di Minuetto - Bars 48 to end
in B
View Excerpt Ludwig van Beethoven
3 - Symphony No 3, mvt II: MM 1-22 View Excerpt Brahms
4 - Scherzo from MND - beginning to reh. B View Excerpt Mendelssohn
5 - Daphnis et Chloe - 3 measures after reh. 212 to end View Excerpt Ravel
6 - Symphonie fantastique - mvt. V - reh. 63 to 6 m after reh. 64
OPTIONAL: Eb clarinet and Bass Clarinet (candidates may record one excerpt, both, or neither)
View Excerpt Berlioz
7 - Don Quixote - reh. 72-74
OPTIONAL: Eb clarinet and Bass Clarinet (candidates may record one excerpt, both, or neither)
View Excerpt Strauss
Bassoon
1 - Bassoon Concerto - First Movement (Bars 35-71) View Excerpt W.A. Mozart
2 - Symphony No. 5
2nd mvt 71-86; 3rd mvt A-E
View Excerpt Tchaikovsky
3 - Symphony No. 8
3rd mvt E-F; 4th mvt C-D
View Excerpt Dvorak
4 - Two (2) minute excerpt from a piece by an underrepresented composer
See attached for suggestions
View Excerpt Your Choice
French Horn
1 - Exposition from Mozart Horn Concerto #2 OR Mozart Horn Concerto #4 OR R. Strauss Concerto No. 1 W.A. Mozart OR Strauss
2 - Symphony No. 5, Mvt. I: Rehearsal 17-21 View Excerpt Shostakovich
3 - Don Juan: Pickup to 19 measures after Rehearsal N through Rehearsal P View Excerpt R. Strauss
4 - Till Eulenspiegel - Opening solo
Horn I in F
View Excerpt Richard Strauss
5 - Symphony No. 5, Mvt. II: Opening solo through sostenuto bar in m. 28 View Excerpt Tchaikovsky
6 - Gotterdammerung, Short Call View Excerpt Wagner
Trumpet
1 - Intrada - Opening to Scherzo View Excerpt Arthur Honegger
2 - Petrushka - Ballerine Dance (including introduction) View Excerpt Igor Stravinsky
3 - Symphony No 8, Mvt II: 7 measures before [E] to [F]
Trumpet in C
View Excerpt Dvorak
4 - Don Juan View Excerpt Strauss
5 - Pictures at an Exhibition: Beginning to [2] View Excerpt Mussorgsky
6 - Symphony No. 2, Mvt 1: Beginning to M. 13 View Excerpt Schumann
Trombone
1 - Solo piece (your choice)
2 - Requiem - Tuba Mirum View Excerpt W.A. Mozart
3 - Bolero View Excerpt Maurice Ravel
4 - Don Juan View Excerpt R. Strauss
5 - Symphony No. 5 View Excerpt Tchaikovsky
6 - Symphony No. 8 View Excerpt Dvorak
7 - Symphony No. 7 View Excerpt Schubert
8 - Rosenkavalier View Excerpt R. Strauss
Bass Trombone
1 - Solo piece (your choice)
2 - La Gazza Ladra, overture View Excerpt Gioacchino Rossini
3 - Rosenkavalier View Excerpt R. Strauss
4 - Symphony No. 7 View Excerpt Schubert
5 - Symphony in D minor View Excerpt Franck
6 - Don Juan View Excerpt R. Strauss
7 - Symphony No. 5 View Excerpt Tchaikovsky
Tuba
1 - Concerto for Tuba, Movement 1 (Complete) View Excerpt Ralph Vaughan Williams
2 - Hungarian March (Rehearsal 4 to two measures after 5) View Excerpt Hector Berlioz
3 - Symphony no. 5 - First movement Reh 3 to reh 5 plus 7 bars View Excerpt Sergei Prokofiev
4 - Overture to Die Meistersinger (Rehearsal J to L) View Excerpt Richard Wagner
5 - Die Walküre (B Major section) View Excerpt Richard Wagner
Percussion
1 - Gavotte (marimba) View Excerpt J.S. Bach
2 - Appalachian Spring (xylophone) View Excerpt Aaron Copland
3 - Clarinet concerto (snare drum) View Excerpt Carl Nielsen
4 - Petrushka (tambourine) View Excerpt Igor Stravinsky
5 - Sleeping Beauty (glockenspiel) View Excerpt P.I. Tchaikovsky
6 - Symphony #5 (timpani) View Excerpt Ludwig van Beethoven
Violin
1 - Solo work of your choice (3 minutes max)
2 - Don Juan (Pages 1 ONLY) View Excerpt Strauss
4 - Symphony 8, 2nd mov’t Concertmaster Solo m.57 - m.64 View Excerpt Dvorak
3 - Symphony 5, Mvt. IV (m504 until 8 before Ee) View Excerpt Tchaikovsky
Viola
1 - Solo piece of your choice (3 minutes max)
2 - Don Juan (Opening to 14 bars after A) View Excerpt Richard Strauss
3 - Symphony No. 5 - Andante con moto View Excerpt L. van Beethoven
4 - Symphony No. 5, Mvt 3 (upbeat to m 81 to downbeat of m 96 & MM 105-144) View Excerpt Tchaikovsky
Cello
1 - Prelude to a Bach Suite J.S. Bach
2 - Don Juan (2 excerpts) View Excerpt Strauss
3 - Symphony No. 5 (3 excerpts) View Excerpt Tchaikovsky
4 - Symphony No. 8 (1 excerpt) View Excerpt Dvorak
Double Bass
1 - Symphony No. 5, 3rd Mvt: beginning to 53 and 141-177 View Excerpt Beethoven
2 - Symphony No. 39, 1st Mvt: MM 40-98 View Excerpt Mozart
3 - Symphony 9 3rd Mvt rehearsal letter B to 7 after C View Excerpt Schubert
4 - Don Juan: Rehearsal letter A to 4 after B View Excerpt R. Strauss
5 - 1st movement of standard concerto for Double Bass
Harp
1 - Solo piece (your choice)
5 minute max
2 - Swan Lake (cadenza) View Excerpt P.I. Tchaikovsky
3 - Don Juan: Letter D to G, Letter L to N View Excerpt Strauss
4 - Young Person’s Guide— cadenza and fugue View Excerpt Britten
Piano
1 - Solo piece (your choice) Classical period
2 - Solo piece (your choice) Romantic or contemporary
3 - Chamber music (Duo or trio or quartet or quintet excerpt) (Your choice)