For Prescreening:
Solo Repertoire:
- 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, Horn 4 (3rd movement, mm 82-99)
Brahms, Symphony No. 2, Horn 1 (1st and 2nd movement solos) OR Symphony No. 3, Horn 1 (3rd movement solo)
Strauss, Ein Heldenleben, Horn 1 (opening call)
For Final Audition:
- Schumann Adagio and Allegro, Op.70 (first page)
- Erika Raum, Confessions of St. Augustine (movement 1 only) OR Persichetti, Parable VIII for solo horn (complete)
- First-movement exposition section from any Mozart concerto
Required Orchestral Excerpts:
Beethoven, Symphony No. 9, Horn 4 (3rd movement, mm 82-99)
Brahms, Symphony No. 2, Horn 1 (1st and 2nd movement solos) OR Symphony No. 3, Horn 1 (3rd movement solo)
Shostakovich, Symphony No. 5, Horn 1 (low tutti section, 1st movement)
Wagner, Götterdämmerung, short all
Strauss, Ein Heldenleben, Horn 1 (opening call)