MM Virtual Audition Requirements

Recorded Audition Specifications

1. Either a Mozart or Weber concerto: 1st movement exposition and half of the slow movement (unaccompanied) 
2. One Milde Concert Study
3. Two standard orchestral excerpts

Recorded Audition Specifications
Record 20 minutes of music consisting of repertoire you would play during a live audition. Repertoire should be pulled from the requirements listed on the Cello Audition Requirements page. The recording may be over 20 minutes if desired.

Recorded Audition Specifications

1. Mozart Clarinet Concerto KV622, 1st movement: bars 57-154 (unaccompanied)

2. Mozart Clarinet Concerto KV622, 3rd movement: beginning to bar 72 (unaccompanied)

3. Debussy Rhapsodie: first 5 minutes (unaccompanied) 

4. 3 orchestral excerpts chosen from the list on the clarinet Audition & Program Requirements page

Recorded Audition Specifications
Repertoire should be unaccompanied when applicable.

1. Two contrasting movements from a Bach lute suite or another equivalent work from the 16th-18th century repertoire

2. Sonata, fantasy or theme and variations by Sor, Giuliani, Mertz, Regondi, Ponce, Torroba, Turina, Castelnuovo-Tedesco, or Torroba

3. Major 20th century work by Britten Brouwer, Ginastera, Henze, Walton, or equivalent

Recorded Audition Specifications

1. One movement from Bach Suites for Violoncello

2. Two contrasting solo pieces of your choice (unaccompanied)

3. 5 orchestral excerpts selected from the list on the Double Bass Audition & Program Requirements page

Recorded Audition Specifications

1. Up to 5 minutes of any solo work étude of your choice (unaccompanied)

2. Holst Second Suite for Military Band:

• March; beginning to letter B and pickup to letter E through bar 5 of letter G.
• Song Without Words (entire movement)

3. Sousa, The Stars and Stripes Forever (complete, no repeats)

4. Mussorgsky/Ravel, Pictures at an Exhibition: "Bydlo"

5. Strauss, Ein Heldenleben: 1 bar before 3 to 4; 8 to 7th bar of 13; 62-75 & 79-80. 

6. Mendelssohn/V.F. Safranek, Overture to The Hebridges: (Fingal's Cave) first 5 lines, B-C

Recorded Audition Specifications

Record 20 minutes of music consisting of repertoire you would have played during a live audition. Please include contrasting movements and styles (unaccompanied), including orchestral excerpts reflecting the requirements listed on the Flute Audition Requirements page. This recording can exceed 20 minutes if it allows you to finish a movement.

Recorded Audition Specifications
Repertoire should be unaccompanied when applicable.

1. One movement of a concerto

2. One solo work for harp

3. Two orchestral excerpts from Principal Harp Volume 1 or 2 by Sarah Bullen

NOTE: Cuts are acceptable for both your concerto and solo works. These two items should total no more than 12 minutes. 

Recorded Audition Specifications

1. About 3 minutes each from two solo works of contrasting styles (unaccompanied)

2. Etude from Maxime Alphonse Book No. 3

3. ALL orchestral excerpts listed on the Horn Audition & Program Requirements page.

Recorded Audition Specifications
Please re-record the 4 selections you submitted for prescreening. Your video should include accompaniment. If you are not able to record with live musicians, it is acceptable to use backing tracks.

IMPORTANT NOTE ON ZOOM COMPONENT:  Please have backing tracks prepared and ready to play.

Recorded Audition Specifications

1. Either a Barrett or Ferling Etude

2. A solo work or movement of a larger work such as a sonata or concerto (unaccompanied)

3. Two contrasting orchestral excerpts

Recorded Audition Specifications
Please record all audition requirements from the Percussion Audition Requirements page.

IMPORTANT NOTE ON ZOOM COMPONENT:  If possible, please have all required percussion instruments available to you. 

Recorded Audition Specifications

4 minutes each of a Bach piece, a movement from a classical sonata, and a romantic work as well as 3 minutes from a contemporary or impressionist work and 3 minutes from a virtuosic etude. Your recording should contain about 18 minutes of playing total. All repertoire should be memorized. 

Recorded Audition Specifications

1. Full range C#, D & Eb major scales slurred

2. Full range F, G & Ab harmonic minor scales slur 4/tongue 4 pattern

3. Chromatic scale (low Bb to high F#) slurred

4. A, Bb & F# major scales in 3rds, full range

5. Up to 15 minutes of unaccompanied excerpts from 3 compositions. One should be from the standard repertoire and one should be from the contemporary repertoire. An unaccompanied baroque transcription is encouraged, but not required. Excerpts chosen should display lyrical and technical capabilities.

OPTIONAL: If you have a background in jazz that you would like to demonstrate, you may present a jazz selection such as a transcription, étude or improvisation.

Recorded Audition Specifications

1. Spillman Concerto first page only (unaccompanied)

2. Bach Sarabande (no repeats)

3. ALL orchestral excerpts as listed on the Bass Trombone Audition Requirements Page.

Recorded Audition Specifications

1. Martin Ballade Beginning until Figure 16 (unaccompanied) 

2. ALL Orchestral excerpts as listed on Tenor Trombone Audition Requirements page

Recorded Audition Specifications

1. One étude of your choice from Charlier, Bitsch, or equivalent

2. Honeggar Intrada (unaccompanied)

3. Three contrasting orchestral excerpts (one on piccolo trumpet)

Recorded Audition Specifications

1. Vaughan Williams, Concerto: 1st and 2nd movements (unaccompanied)

2. Berlioz, The Damnation of Faust "Hungarian March": begin at rehearsal #20 and end 4 measures after rehearsal #21

3. Gershwin, An American in Paris: solo beginning at rehearsal #67

4. Mahler, Symphony No. 5, Scherzo movement: begin 13 measures before rehearsal #16 and end at rehearsal #17

5. Revueltas, Sensemaya: begin at rehearsal #2 and play through rehearsal #8

5. Prokofiev, Symphony No. 5: begin at rehearsal #3 and end 8 measures after rehearsal #5

6. Strauss, Ein Heldenleben: begin at rehearsal #62 and end after rehearsal #65

7. Wagner, Overture to Die Meistersinger: first 27 measures

8. Respighi, Fountains of Rome

Recorded Audition Specifications

1. Two contrasting movements of any solo suite, sonata, or partita by Bach

2. About 6 minutes of a movement from a major concerto (unaccompanied)

3. About 6 minutes of a first movement of any major sonata (unaccompanied)

Recorded Audition Specifications

1. Five minutes of the first movement of a concerto (unaccompanied)

2. Three minutes of a Bach piece (no repeats)

3. Two minutes of an etude or Paganini Caprice (no repeats if applicable)

Recorded Audition Specifications
2 pieces in contrasting languages WITH accompaniment.

IMPORTANT NOTE ON VOICE ZOOM COMPONENT: Accompaniment is not necessary. If the faculty ask you to sing, it will be a cappella or you may use backing tracks.