Program Requirements

Master of Music: Tenor 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 Selection: Martin, Ballade

Orchestral Excerpts:

  • Berlioz, The Damnation of Faust  “Hungarian March” (second trombone)

  • Mozart, Requiem “Tuba Mirum”

  • Ravel, Boléro

  • Saint-Saëns, Symphony No. 3

  • Schumann, Symphony No. 3, fourth movement

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

  • Strauss, Also sprach Zarathustra

  • Rossini, Overture to William Tell

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