Undergraduate Audition Requirements
- Etude 1 from Vassily Brandt’s 34 Etudes (edited by Robert Nagel) published by International Music Co., Catalog #1391
- Two contrasting movements (in their entirety) from one of the following:
- Kent Kennan Sonata
- Paul Hindemith Sonata
- Flor Peeters Sonata
- Halsey Stevens Sonata
- Eric Ewazen Sonata
- Alexander Arutiunian Concerto (play beginning to letter L)
- Franz Joseph Haydn Concerto in Eb
- Johann Nepomuk Hummel Concerto in E or Eb
- Scales
- Major Scales up two four sharps and flats – tongued and slurred (one or two octaves covering the practical range of the instrument)
- Two octave C Chromatic Scale (slurred in triplets, quarter note = 100)
Graduate Audition Requirements
- Etude #2 from 36 Etudes Transcendantes by Theo Charlier
- One of the following:
- Georges Enesco Legend
- Arthur Honeggar Intrada
- One contrasting selection of the candidate’s choice.
- Orchestral Excerpts
- Beethoven Leonore Overture #3 (offstage call)
- Mahler Symphony Number 5 (first movement opening)
- Moussorgsky Pictures at an Exhibition (Promenade)
- Rimsky Korsakov Scheherezade (Movement 3 G-I, Movement 4 P-U)
- Respighi Pines of Rome (Offstage Solo)
- Stravinsky Petrouchka (ballerina’s dance and waltz)