Brass
Euphonium
All applicants to the euphonium studio are expected to prepare and to meet the following performance requirements for auditions:
- Scales: any major or minor scales as requested
- A technical etude
- A solo composition of the applicant’s choice that will demonstrate the musical and technical level of achievement on the particular instrument
- Two or three band or orchestral excerpts of the player’s choice
Horn
All applicants to the horn studio are expected to prepare and to meet the following performance requirements for auditions:
- Mozart, Concerto # 2: 1st movement, exposition and development
- Strauss, Concerto # 1: 1st & 2nd movements
- Bach, Cello Suite # 1, Sarabande: In original cello key. Not the Wendell Hoss edition
- Reynolds, 48 Etudes for French Horn: # 39 or # 41
- Brahms #1: 1st horn, 4th movement intro calls
- Mahler #1: 4th horn low tutti, 3rd movement
- Strauss, Till Eulenspiegel: 1st horn both intro calls
- Tchaikovsky # 5: 1st horn 2nd movement solo
- Wagner: Short Call
- All major and minor scales
Trombone
All applicants to the trombone studio are expected to prepare and to meet the following performance requirements for auditions:
- Scales: any major or minor scales as requested
- A technical etude
- A solo composition of the applicant’s choice that will demonstrate the musical and technical level of achievement on the particular instrument
- Two or three orchestral excerpts of the players choice
Trumpet
All applicants to the trumpet studio are expected to prepare and perform the following items:
- Two contrasting etudes (one lyric, one technical) from etude books such as:
- Charlier, Etudes Transcendantes,
- Arban, Characteristic Studies
- H. L. Clarke, Charachteristic Studies
- A solo of your choice such as:
- Kennan, Sonata for Trumpet and Piano
- Hindemith, Sonata for Trumpet and Piano
- Haydn, Concerto in E flat for Trumpet
- Two or three orchestral excerpts of your choice such as:
- Beethoven, Leonore 2 or 3
- Mussorgsky/Ravel, Pictures at an Exhibition – Promenade
- Respighi, Pines of Rome – offstage solo
Tuba
All applicants to the tuba studio are expected to prepare and meet the following performance requirements for auditions:
- Scales: any major or minor scales as requested
- Selections of contrasting styles, including:
- An etude
- A solo composition of the applicant's choice that demonstrates his or her musical and technical level of achievement