Audition Repertoire Requirements
| Strings: | Two pieces or movements in contrasting styles (technical and melodic) |
| Piano: | Two pieces or movements in contrasting styles (technical and melodic) |
| Flute: | 1st movement from Mozart G major or D Major Flute concerto (k 313 or 314) |
| Brahms- Flute solo from Symphony #4, 4th movement.(m. 97-195) | |
| Beethoven- flute solo from Leonore Overture,#3 (M. 29-61 after rehearsal E) | |
| Ravel- Daphnis and Chloe (three after Reh. 176-two after reh. 179) | |
| Oboe: |
Two contrasting solos (less than 5 min each) and 3 standard orchestral excerpts |
| Clarinet: | Mozart: Clarinet Concerto in A major, K. 622 (1st movement exposition) |
| Mendelssohn: Scherzo (beginning to bar 48) |
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| Brahms: Symphony No. 3 in F Major, op. 90 (1st movement m. 36-46) |
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| Beethoven: Symphony No. 8 in F Major, op. 93 (3rd movement, trio including repeat) | |
| Basson: | Solo of choice |
| Stravinsky: The Rite of String (opening) |
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| Rimsky-Korsakov: Scheherazade, op. 35 (2nd movement, solo plus the cadenzas) |
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| Ravel: Bolero (solo) |
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| Trumpet: | Required solo: Legende by Enesco (do not include muted section at end) |
| Required excerpt: Ballerina and Waltz from Petrouchka by Stravinsky (either 1911 or 1947 version) |
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| French Horn: | Required solo: Concerto no. 1 in Eb, Richard Strauss, 1st movement (from the beginning to measure 131) |
| Required excerpts from Tchaikovsky Symphony no. 5: |
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| 1st movement, 4th Horn, 4 bars before E to 1 after F (measures 96-115) | |
| 2nd movement, 1st Horn solo, 7 bars before A to 8 after A (measures 8-28) | |
| 4th movement, 1st Horn, 5th bar of S to 7 after V (measures 340-396) | |
| Trombone: | Required solo: Choral, Cadence et Fugato, Henri Dutilleux |
| Required excerpts: |
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| Tuba Mirum 2nd Trombone solo from Mozart Requiem |
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| Tchaikovsky Symphony no. 5, 4th movement, letter T to 11 after U (2nd Tbn) |
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| Bass Trombone: |
Required solo pieces: |
| Concerto in One Movement, Alexei Lebedev | |
| Sarabande from Suite no. 5 for solo 'cello, J. S. Bach | |
| Required excerpt: | |
| The Creation, Franz Joseph Haydn, no. 26, chor und terzett (from the beginning to letter C) | |
| Tuba: | Required solo: Variations on Handel's Judas Maccabeus, L. von Beethoven (arr. W. Bell) |
| Required excerpts from Tchaikovsky Symphony no. 5 | |
| 2nd movement, 2 bars before K to 6 after K | |
| 4th movement, letter a to 16 after d (lower case letters near end) |
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Philippians 4:8