VIOLIN Students should be prepared to perform all major scales 3 octaves with no arpeggios. All scales must be memorized. Each scale tone should be equal to at least 90 beats per minute on a metronome. Prepared piece (below) Copland Hoedown Play bracketed measures (#16-end) Quarter Note = 108
VIOLA Students should be prepared to perform all major scales 3 octaves with no arpeggios. All scales must be memorized. Each scale tone should be equal to at least 90 beats per minute on a metronome. Prepared Piece (below)
CELLO Students should be prepared to perform all major scales 3 octaves with no arpeggios. All scales must be memorized. Each scale tone should be equal to at least 90 beats per minute on a metronome. Prepared Piece (below)
DOUBLE BASS Students should be prepared to perform all major scales 2 octaves with no arpeggios. All scales must be memorized. Each scale tone should be equal to at least 90 beats per minute on a metronome. Prepared Piece (below)
FLUTE Students should be prepared to perform all major scales 2 octaves (where possible), with no Prepared piece (below)
PICCOLO Students should be prepared to perform all major scales 2 octaves (where possible), with no Prepared piece (below)
OBOE Students should be prepared to perform all major scales 2 octaves (where possible), with no Prepared piece (below) Berlioz, Damnation of Faust, Hungarian March
ENGLISH HORN Students should be prepared to perform all major scales 2 octaves (where possible), with no Prepared piece (below) CLARINET (page 1 of 2)
Students should be prepared to perform all major scales 2 octaves (where possible), with no Prepared piece of 2 excerpts (below) Excerpt #1: Rachmaninoff: Symphony 2, Movement 3: beginning- 47 *Please see next page for excerpt #2 CLARINET (page 2 of 2)
Excerpt #2: Mendelssohn, Midsummer s Night Dream: Scherzo Eb CLARINET Students should be prepared to perform all major scales 2 octaves (where possible), no Prepared piece (below) Respighi, Belkis. Regina di Saba III. Danza Guerrsca 4 after Rehearsal 16
BASS CLARINET Students should be prepared to perform all major scales 2 octaves (where possible), no Prepared piece (below) Respighi: Belkis, Regina di Saba Suite No. 1, Movement 4 Danza Orgiastica Start @ mm.15
BASSOON Students should be prepared to perform all major scales 2 octaves (where possible), no Prepared piece (below) Belioz, Symphony Fantastique: March to the Scaffold (Half Note = 72) (Start at 52, end at end)
FRENCH HORN (page 1 of 2) Students should be prepared to perform all major scales 2 octaves (where possible), with no Prepared piece of 2 excerpts (below) Excerpt #1: Bruckner Symphony 4, Movement 1 *Please see next page for required excerpt #2.
FRENCH HORN (page 2 of 2) Excerpt #2: Bruckner Symphony 4, Movement 3: Beginning-D (take pause at block rests) TRUMPET Students should be prepared to perform all major scales 2 octaves (where possible), with no
Prepared piece (below) Excerpt #1: Mussorgsky: Promenade from Pictures at an Exhibition (top line only) TROMBONE
Students should be prepared to perform all major scales 2 octaves (where possible), with no Prepared Piece (below) Berlioz: Marche Hongroise (Hungarian March)
BASS TROMBONE Students should be prepared to perform all major scales 2 octaves (where possible), with no Prepared piece (below) Bruckner, Symphony 4: Movement 4 (play mm 164-F)
TUBA Students should be prepared to perform all major scales 1 octave (2 where possible) with no Prepared piece of 2 excerpts (below) Excerpt #1: Bruckner Symphony 4, Movement 1 (Play D End) Excerpt #2: Bruckner Symphony 4, Movement 4 (mm. 167-182)
and Sinfonia HARP (page 1 of 2) The 2 excerpts below are required of all Sinfonia and auditionees: Excerpt #1 of 2: Capriccio Espagnol, Cadenza, Rimsky- Korsakov IV. Scena e Canto Gitano Please see next page for excerpt #2 and Sinfonia HARP
(page 2 of 2) Excerpt #2 of 2: Carmen Suite #1 and Sinfonia
PERCUSSION All percussion audition candidates must pick a solo of their choice on EITHER a mallet keyboard instrument, snare drum or timpani, showing your best abilities. will also be tested on your chosen instrument. Please bring two copies of your solo for the judges. In addition, each percussionist is REQUIRED to perform each of the following on their choice of two of the three instruments listed below: Snare Drum: Rudimental Roll, Orchestral Roll, Flams, Paradiddles. Mallet Instruments: 2 Octave Major Scales and Apreggios: C, F, Bb, G, D. Plus, Chromatic Scale, 2 Octaves. Timpani: Long Roll, ppp to fff. Ability to tune will also be tested. Please bring pitch pipe.