Brass Audition Requirements

Brass Undergraduate Audition Requirements

trumpet, French horn, trombone, bass trombone, euphonium, tuba
 
Instrumental auditions for incoming freshman applicants must be performed without accompaniment. For transfer students, please prepare the graduate requirements for your audition. Audition material should include:
 
  • An étude;
  • Two movements of contrasting nature and tempi from a sonata or concerto;
  • Please prepare all major scales and arpeggios;
  • Possible sight-reading

Brass Graduate Audition Requirements
trumpet, French horn, trombone, bass trombone, tuba

Instrumental auditions must be performed without accompaniment.
 
Prepare two movements of contrasting nature from the solo repertoire and three (3) orchestral excerpts. For your solo repertoire, you may choose from the suggested pieces below or make your own choices at a similar level of difficulty. We ask that you play the listed excerpts. In addition, please prepare all major and minor (natural, melodic, and harmonic) scales and arpeggios and be prepared to sight-read.
 
If you are submitting a recorded audition, please make sure that there is no accompaniment, and that the recording has not been edited and does not contain reverb. Recorded auditions should also include one major and three minor scales (one each: natural, melodic, and harmonic) and corresponding arpeggios. 
 

Trumpet

Suggested Repertoire:
 
  • Haydn: Concerto
  • Hindemith: Sonata
 
Orchestral Excerpts:
 
  • Beethoven: Leonore (No. 2 and No. 3)
  • Stravinsky: Petrushka (Ballerina’s Dance)
  • Mussorgsky: Pictures at an Exhibition
 

French Horn

Suggested Repertoire:
 
  • Mozart: Horn Concerto No. 2, 3 or 4
  • Strauss: Horn Concerto No. 1 or 2
  • Gliere: Horn Concerto
 
Orchestral Excerpts:
 
  • Strauss: Opening solo from Til Eulenspiegel
  • Tchaikovsky: Symphony No. 5, 2nd Movement solo
  • Shostakovich: Symphony No. 5, 1st Movement, Horn 1, Rehearsal 17-21
 
Trombone
Suggested Repertoire:
 
  • Martin: Ballade
  • Milhaud: Concerto d’Hiver
  • Tomasi: Concerto
 
Orchestral Excerpts:
 
  • Mozart: Tuba Mirum
  • Ravel: Bolero
  • Berlioz: Hungarian March

Bass Trombone

Suggested Repertoire

  • Ewazen: Concerto
  • T.R. George: Concerto
 
Orchestral Excerpts:
 
  • Beethoven: Symphony no. 9
  • Strauss: Ein Heldenleben
  • Wagner: The Ride of the Valkyries
 

Tuba

Suggested Repertoire:
 
  • Hindemith: Sonata
  • Vaughan Williams: Concerto
 
Orchestral Excerpts:
 
  • Wagner: Ride of the Valkyries
  • Prokofiev: Symphony No. 5
  • Berlioz: Symphonie Fantastique