Admissions Music Auditions

Audition Requirements

Follow the links to view audition requirements in the following disciplines:

Brass | Jazz | Keyboard | Percussion | Strings | Voice | Woodwinds


Brass

Baritone-Euphonium

  • Excerpts from Arban Complete Method
  • Any all-state band solo

Horn (french horn)

  • 1st Movement of any Mozart Concerto
  • 2 Etudes from Gallay 22 Studies
Substitutions of selections of equal or greater difficulty is acceptable.

Trombone

  • Two études in contrasting styles by Kopprasch, Blazhevich, Bordogni/Rochut, or similar methods
  • A prepared solo, such as Hindemith Sonata for Trombone; Guilmant Morceau Symphonique; Rimsky-Korsakov Concerto for Trombone; or one of equal difficulty

Trumpet

  • Three études or solos
  • Suggested pieces are: Haydn Trumpet Concerto; Hindemith Sonata for Trumpet

Tuba

  • Études from the studies of Kopprasch, Blazevich, Rochut, etc.
    Solos should include slow and fast movements equal to: Vaughan Williams Concerto for Bass Tuba; Hindemith Sonata for Bass Tuba; Hartley Suite for Unaccompanied Tuba; Wilder Suite #1 (Effie) for Tuba; Persichetti Serenade for Solo Tuba; Stevens Sonatina for Tuba
  • Orchestral repertoire, such as major passages from works by Wagner, Mahler, Prokofiev, Berlioz, Strauss, and Verdi