Audition & Program Requirements
Master of Music: Tuba
Prescreening required; audio or video recordings are accepted. If submitting video prescreening, please position the video so that your embouchure is clearly visible.
Prescreening and audition unaccompanied.
For Prescreening:
- Vaughan Williams, Concerto, second movement
- Wagner, Overture to Die Meistersinger, first 27 measures
- Respighi, Fountains of Rome
For Final Audition:
- Vaughan Williams, Concerto, first and second movements
Orchestral excerpts:
- Berlioz, The Damnation of Faust "Hungarian March," begin at rehearsal #20 and end 4 measures after rehearsal #21
- Gershwin, An American in Paris, solo beginning at rehearsal #67
- Mahler, Symphony No. 5, Scherzo movement, begin 13 measures before rehearsal #16 and end at rehearsal #17
- Revueltas, Sensemayá, begin at rehearsal #2 and play through rehearsal #8
- Prokofiev, Symphony No. 5, begin at rehearsal #3 and end 8 measures after rehearsal #5
- Strauss, Ein Heldenleben, begin at rehearsal #62 and end after rehearsal #65
- Wagner, Overture to Die Meistersinger, first 27 measures, 158-188
- Respighi, Fountains of Rome