Please prepare:
- One accompanied standard solo, preferably a movement from a standard concerto.
For Personal Auditions, you must bring the accompaniment to this piece. An accompanist will be provided or you may bring your own.
– Recorded auditions: ALL solos (except percussion) must be recorded with accompaniment.
– Percussion audition: No piano accompanied solo is needed. Instead, please prepare and submit an unaccompanied movement from a JS Bach suite (without repeats) performed on marimba.
– Piano/Keyboard audition: No accompanied concerto is needed. Instead, please play one movement of a Beethoven sonata and a contrasting Romantic virtuoso piece. - Orchestral excerpts from the following required list.
* It is recommended that Flute, Oboe, and Clarinet applicants offer excerpts, when possible, on their auxiliary instruments.
** Trumpet applicants interested in performing on Rotary Trumpet in Graz, must include the Rotary Trumpet excerpt.
Excerpts:
| Flute | Beethoven: Leonore Overture #3, mm. 1-24, 328-360 Bizet: Carmen, Entr’acte, solo Mendelssohn: A Midsummer Night’s Dream, Scherzo, solo Ravel: Daphnis et Chloe, Suite #2, Solo, mm. 176-179 Stravinsky: Firebird Suite (1919) Variation, rehearsal 9 to end |
| *Piccolo | Rossini: Semiramide Overture, Letter G to H, Letter T to U Shostakovich: Symphony #8, 2nd Mvt., 2 before 53 to 5 after 58 |
| Oboe | Ravel: Le Tombeau du Couperin, 1st Mvt., mm. 1-14 Rossini: La Scala di Seta Overture Schubert: Symphony #9 (C Major), 2nd Mvt. Strauss: Don Juan, mm. 235-268 |
| *English Horn | Berlioz: Roman Carnival Overture, mm. 21-37 Rossini: William Tell Overture, solo |
| Clarinet | Beethoven: Symphony #8 (trio) no repeats Brahms: Symphony #3, 2nd Mvt. Kodaly: Dances of Galanta, mm. 31-68 Mendelssohn: A Midsummer Night’s Dream, Scherzo, mm. 1-48, 95-115 Shostakovich: Symphony #9, 3rd Mvt., mm. 1-17 |
| *E-Flat Clarinet | Berlioz: Symphony Fantastique, 5th Mvt., mm. 40-78 Ravel: Daphnis et Chloe, Suite #2, mm. 200-204 |
| *Bass Clarinet | William Schumann: Symphony #3, Toccata section solo to m. 170 Stravinsky: The Rite of Spring, Reh. 5 to 7 before Reh. 7, and Reh. 48-49 |
| Bassoon | Donizetti: L’elisir d’amore, Una furtiva lagrima Mozart: Marriage of Figaro Overture, mm.101-123, 139-171 Ravel: Bolero, #2 to #3 Rimsky-Korsakov: Scheherazade, 2nd Mvt., solo and cadenzas Rossini: La Gazza Ladra Overture, Letter D to E |
| French Horn | Beethoven: Symphony #3, 3rd Mvt. (Trio section), 2nd horn part; mm. 171-205 (solo) Beethoven: Symphony #9, 3rd Mvt., 4th horn part; mm. 83-98 Brahms: Symphony #3, 3rd Mvt., mm. 98-110 (solo) Strauss: Ein Heldenleben, beginning to Reh. 6 (1st horn part) Tchaikovsky: Symphony #5, 2nd Mvt, mm. 9-28 (solo) |
| Trumpet | Beethoven: Leonore Overture #3 Mahler: Symphony #5, 1st Mvt., mm. 1-24 Ravel: Piano Concerto in G, 1st Mvt., solo Stravinsky: Petroushka (1947), “Ballerina’s dance” Strauss: Don Juan, solo OR Ein Heldenleben (Bb Trumpet only) Reh. 42-43; Reh. 58 – 3 mm. after Reh. 61; Reh. 80 – 2 mm. before Reh. 83 |
| **Rotary Trumpet | Brahms: Symphony #2, 4th Mvt, mm. 397- 429 |
| Trombone | Mahler: Symphony #3, 1st Mvt., mm. 166-209 Mozart: Requiem, Tuba Mirum Rossini: William Tell Overture, mm. 92-131 Schumann: Symphony #3, 4th Mvt., mm. 1-8 Wagner: Lohengrin, Prelude to the Third Act |
| Bass Trombone | Rossini: William Tell Overture, mm. 92-131 Schumann: Symphony #3, 4th Mvt., mm. 1-18 Strauss: Ein Heldenleben, “Battle scene”: 3 mm. before Reh. 62 – 9 mm. after Reh. 6 Wagner: Das Rheingold, Entrance of the Gods, last 15 mm. |
| Tuba | Berlioz: Symphony Fantastique, 5th Mvt., mm. 127-147 and 480 to the end Strauss: Till Eulenspiegel, 7 before #37 to 16 after #37 Wagner: Die Meistersinger, Prelude, mm. 158-188 Wagner: Lohengrin, Prelude to the Third Act |
| Timpani & Percussion Note: All percussion auditions are recorded auditions |
Timpani Beethoven: Symphony #9, 1st Mvt., 18 bars before S to the end Tchaikovsky: Symphony #4, 1st Mvt., Reh. S to U Snare Drum Rimsky-Korsakov: Scheherazade, 3rd Mvt., D to E and 4th Mvt., P to R Shostakovich: Symphony #10, 2nd Mvt., Reh. 98 to the end Marimba Bach: Any unaccompanied Suite, one Mvt., no repeats (This piece takes the place of an accompanied solo.) Xylophone Gershwin: Porgy and Bess, Opening Stravinsky: The Firebird Ballet, Reh. 127- 133 Tambourine Dvorak: Carnival Overture, from beginning to 4 mm. before Letter C |
| Piano/Keyboard | No accompanied concerto is needed. Instead, please play one movement of a Beethoven sonata and a contrasting Romantic virtuoso piece. Copland: Appalachian Spring (Reh. 6 – 14; 30 – 31; 5 mm. after 48 – 50) Stravinsky: Petroushka (1947) (Reh. 98 – 112) Click HERE for excerpt music |
| Harp | No positions are currently available for harpists. |
| Violin | Mozart: Symphony #39, 2nd Mvt., mm. 96-108; 4th Mvt., mm. 1-41 Mozart: Marriage of Figaro Overture, mm. 1-85, 214-265 Schumann: Symphony #2, 2nd Mvt., mm. 1-48 Strauss: Don Juan, mm. 1-40 |
| Viola | Beethoven: Symphony #5, 2nd Mvt., mm. 23-37, 72-86 Brahms: Symphony #4, 2nd Mvt., Letter D to E Mendelssohn: A Midsummer Night’s Dream, Scherzo, mm. 17-93 Mozart: Symphony #35 (Haffner), 4th Mvt., mm. 1-37 Strauss: Don Juan, mm. 1-40 |
| Cello | Beethoven: Symphony #5, 3rd Mvt. (Scherzo), mm. 1-18, 140-213 Brahms: Symphony #2, 2nd Mvt., mm. 1-15 Mozart: Symphony #35 (Haffner), 4th Mvt., mm. 134-181 Mozart: Marriage of Figaro Overture, mm. 1-9, 156-165 Strauss: Don Juan, Beginning to Letter C, Letter R to Letter T |
| String Bass | Beethoven: Symphony #5, 3rd Mvt., mm. 1-18, 140-213 Brahms: Symphony #2, 1st Mvt., Letter E to F Mozart: Symphony #35 (Haffner), 4th Mvt., mm. 1-37 Mozart: Marriage of Figaro Overture, mm. 1-7, 156-164, 274-284 Strauss: Don Juan, 1st page |