Program Requirements

Master of Music: Bass Trombone

Prescreening required; must be video format. Video should be shot from left side so mouthpiece is clearly visible.

Prescreening and audition unaccompanied. If possible, prescreening repertoire should be separated into different video files. It is also acceptable to upload a single video file that contains all required prescreening repertoire. Please see the Graduate Application for more information. 

Fall 2026 Audition Dates: 

February 7 & 14

For Prescreening and Final Audition:

All repertoire required. No substitutions.

Solo Selections:

  • Spillman, Concerto, first movement

  • Bach, Sarabande (no repeats)

Orchestral Excerpts:

  • Berlioz, The Damnation of Faust  "Hungarian March"  

  • Haydn, The Creation

  • Mahler, Symphony No. 7, first movement

  • Schumann, Symphony No. 3, fourth movement

  • Wagner, Die Walküre "Ride of the Valkyries," B Maj. section

  • Wagner, Das Rheingold

  • Rossini, Overture to William Tell 

  • Kodály, Háry János

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