Audition & Program Requirements
Master of Music: Horn
Prescreening required; must be video recording. Please record all prescreening repertoire in the same room so that the acoustics remain consistent.
Prescreening and audition unaccompanied.
Note: Updates to audition requirements were made on 10/23/20. Please see information below. Changes: specific solo requirements
For Prescreening:
- One solo movement demonstrating style, tone, range, rhythm, and technique, such as Mozart Concerto No. 4; Schumann Adagio and Allegro, Op.70; Buyanovsky Espana; Strauss Concerto Nos. 1 or 2
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
*NOTE: Fall 2021 horn auditions must be entirely prerecorded and there will not be any live virtual auditions. Further information will be sent directly to applicants.