Audition & Program Requirements
Master of Music: Euphonium
Prescreening required; audio or video recordings are accepted. If submitting video prescreening, please position the video so that your embouchure is clearly visible.
Prescreening and audition unaccompanied.
For Prescreening:
- Solo or étude of the applicant's choice
- Holst, Second Suite for Military Band:
- March, beginning to letter B, pickup to letter E through bar 5 of letter G
- Song Without Words, entire movement
- Sousa, The Stars and Stripes Forever (complete, no repeats)
For Final Audition*:
Perform up to 5 minutes of any études or solo piece of your own choice. Please demonstrate both lyrical and technical playing.
Additionally, prepare the following orchestral excerpts:
- Holst, Second Suite for Military Band:
- March, beginning to letter B, pickup to letter E through bar 5 of letter G
- Song Without Words, entire movement
- Sousa, The Stars and Stripes Forever (complete, no repeats)
- Mendelssohn, arr. VF Safranek, Overture to The Hebrides (Fingal's Cave), first 5 lines, B-C
- Mussorgsky/Ravel, Pictures at an Exhibition, "Bydlo"
- Strauss, Ein Heldenleben, 1 before 3-4, 8-7th bar of 13, 62-75, 79-80
*NOTE: Fall 2021 euphonium auditions must be entirely prerecorded and there will not be any live virtual auditions. Further information will be sent directly to applicants.