Audition & Program Requirements
Master of Music: Horn
Fall 2022 audition format update: Auditions will be entirely virtual. Horn applicants invited to the final audition round will receive a list of video audition repertoire one week prior to the audition recording submission deadline, which is February 15. Repertoire should be recorded in one unedited take. There also may be a live virtual Zoom sight-reading requirement in late February after videos have been reviewed. Audition videos should be submitted via the applicant's status portal. Posted 1/13/22
Prescreening required; must be video recording. Please record all prescreening repertoire in one take, and in the same room so that the acoustics remain consistent.
Prescreening and audition unaccompanied.
For Prescreening:
- One solo movement of a sonata demonstrating style, tone, range, rhythm, and technique
- Exposition section from any Mozart concerto
- Exposition section from any Strauss concerto
One étude from Maxime Alphonse Book No. 5
Required Orchestral Excerpts:
Beethoven, Symphony No. 9 (fourth horn solo)
Brahms, Symphony No. 2 or Symphony No. 3
Strauss, Ein Heldenleben, opening call
For Final Audition:
- Schumann Adagio and Allegro, Op.70 (first page)
- Strauss Concerto Nos. 1 OR 2 (exposition section of the applicant's choice)
- First-movement exposition section from any Mozart concerto
Required Orchestral Excerpts:
Beethoven, Symphony No. 9 (fourth horn solo)
Brahms, Symphony No. 2 or Symphony No. 3
Shostakovich, Symphony No. 5, low tutti section, 1st movement
Wagner, Götterdämmerung, short call
Strauss, Ein Heldenleben, opening call