Undergraduate Brass Area Audition Requirements

Candidates should prepare two contrasting selections from the standard repertoire for their instrument, which may include solos, etudes and/or orchestral excerpts. It is critical that the audition material be thoroughly prepared, approximately 8 to 10 minutes in length, and represents the candidate’s best playing. Auditions may also include scales and sight-reading.

Suggested Audition Repertoire:

Trumpet

Suggested trumpet solo repertoire:

Arutunian Concerto
Balay Prelude et Ballade
Barat Andante et Scherzo
Broughton Oliver’s Birthday
Clarke Debutante, Bride of the Waves, etc.
Handel Aria con Variazioni
Haydn Concerto
Hindemith Sonata
Hummel Concerto
Kennan Sonata
Ketting Intrada
Ropartz Andante et Allegro

Suggested trumpet etude repertoire:

Arban Characteristic Studies
Bousquet 36 Celebrated Studies
Brandt 34 Orchestral Studies
Charlier 36 Etudes transcendantes
Voxman Selected Studies
Wurm 40 Studies

Optional orchestral excerpts:

Beethoven Leonore Overture #3 off-stage call
Mussorgsky/Ravel Pictures at an Exhibition promenade
Respighi Pines of Rome off-stage solo
Stravinsky Petroushka ballerina’s dance

Horn

Suggested Audition Repertoire

  • Two works (either an etude or movement of a solo) of contrasting styles, one lyrical, one technical.

Suggested Etudes:

  • Kopprasch – 60 Studies
  • Maxime-Alphonse – Book 1 or 2
  • Pottag - Preparatory Melodies
  • Gallay – 22 Studies
  • Kling - Etudes

Suggested solo repertoire:

  • Mozart – Concerto 1, 2, 3, or 4
  • R. Strauss - Concerto No. 1
  • Franz Strauss – Concerto Op. 8
  • Saint-Saens – Morceau de Concert
  • Cooke – Rondo in Bb
  • Beethoven – Sonata
  • Krol – Laudatio
  • Arnold – Fantasy
  • Hindemith – Sonata
  • Larsson – Concertino
  • Heiden – Sonata
  • Senaille – Allegro Spiritoso

Optional: Orchestral Excerpts

  • Tchaikovsky – Cantabile solo from Symphony No. 5, Mvt 2 (Hn 1)
  • Mendelssohn – Nocturne from Midsummer Night's Dream (Hn 1)
  • Beethoven – Scherzo from Sym. No. 3 "Eroica" (Hn 2)
  • Brahms – Sym. No. 3, Mvt. 3 (Hn 1)
  • Till Eulenspiegel – opening call (Hn 1)

Trombone

Suggested audition repertoire for trombone:

  • Barat, Andante and Allegro, Fischer
  • Bernstein, Elegy for Mippy II, Boosey and Hawkes
  • Blazhevich, Concertpiece No. 5, Belwin Mills
  • David, Concertino (first movement), Fischer
  • Galliard, Six Sonatas (no. 1), McGinnis & Marx edition
  • Guilmant, Morceau Symphonique, Warner Bros., or International
  • Hasse, Suite, Rubank
  • Kreisler, Sonatina, Southern
  • Nux, P. V. de la, Concert Piece, Southern
  • Pryor, Annie Laurie, Fischer
  • Ropartz, Andante et Allegro, Fischer
  • Telemann, G.P./Raph, Fantasie in A minor, Fischer
  • Telemann, Sonata in F minor, International

Or, two contrasting etudes from Voxman, Selected Studies, Rubank.

Tuba and Euphonium

Suggested repertoire for Tuba and Euphonium

Tuba Solos

  • Vaughan Williams Concerto for Bass Tuba
  • Hindemith Sonata for Tuba and Piano
  • Gregson Tuba Concerto
  • Bach/Bell Air and Bouree
  • Hartley Unaccompanied Tuba Sonata
  • Persichetti Serenade No. 12
  • Barat Introduction and Dance
  • Lebedev
  • Haddad Suite for Tuba
  • Nelhybel Suite for Tuba

Tuba Etudes

  • Bordogni/Rochut
  • Blazevich
  • Kopprasch
  • Vasiliev

Euphonium Solos

  • White Lyric Suite
  • Haddad Suite for Tuba
  • Marcello (any) Sonata
  • Vaughan Williams Six Studies in English Folk Song
  • Capuzzi Andante and Rondo
  • Jacob Fantasia
  • Horovitz Euphonium Concerto

Euphonium Etudes

  • Arban (Characteristic Studies)
  • Rochut
  • Voxman

Graduate Brass Area Audition Requirements

General Requirements - all brass

  • Two solos, selected from different historical periods of music, and of difficulty and quality appropriate for performance at the doctoral level. Applicant should bring an accompanist if at all possible.
  • Etudes (see below)
  • Orchestral excerpts (see below)

Trumpet Audition

  • One etude selected from Brandt - Vacciano Orchestral Studies (MCA Music), and one etude selected from Charlier Etudes Transcendantes (Leduc).
  • Performance of "standard" orchestral excerpts selected from any volume of excerpts by Bartold, Voisin, or Rossbach (International), or by Neubaus (Musikverlag Hans Gerig).

Horn Audition

  • Two etudes selected from Books 5 or 6 of Maxime-Alphonse 200 Etudes Nouvelles (Leduc), Gallay Op. 32 or 43, or Reynolds 48 Etudes (Schirmer).
  • Performance of "standard" orchestral excerpts.

Trombone and Bass Trombone Audition

  • Etudes
    • Tenor trombone: one etude selected from Boutry, Douze Etudes de Haute Perfectionnement (Leduc).
    • Bass trombone: one etude selected from Blazhevich, 70 Studies for Tuba.
  • Performance of "standard" orchestral excerpts.

Tuba Audition

  • One etude selected from Bordogni 43 Bel Canto Studies and one etude selected from Kopprasch 60 Selected Studies
  • Performance of “standard” orchestral excerpts

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Last updated 12-oct-07