Audition & Program Requirements
Master of Music: Tenor Trombone
Prescreening required; must be video recording. Video should be shot from left side so mouthpiece is clearly visible.
Prescreening and audition unaccompanied.
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
*NOTE: Fall 2021 tenor trombone auditions must be entirely prerecorded and there will not be any live virtual auditions. Further information will be sent directly to applicants.
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