Trombone Audition Requirements
Undergraduate Tenor Trombone Requirements (BM, BME)
- Solo (to be performed without piano):
- Guilmant – Morceau Symphonique, Op. 88 (complete)
- Etude:
- One etude of applicant’s choice from Bordogni
- Orchestral Excerpts (B.M. applicants: all five excerpts; B.M.E: choose three):
- Mozart – Requiem, Tuba mirum
- Berlioz – Hungarian March
- Rossini – Overture to La Gazza Ladra
- Saint-Saens – Symphony No. 3 (Organ)
- Wagner – Ride of the Valkyries (minor and major sections)
Graduate Tenor Trombone Requirements
Prescreening
- Solo (to be performed without piano): Martin – Ballade for Trombone (beginning to rehearsal 6)
- Orchestral Excerpts:
- Mozart – Requiem, Tuba mirum
- Ravel – Bolero
- Rossini – Overture to La Gazza Ladra
- Saint-Saens – Symphony No. 3 “Organ”
- Wagner – Ride of the Valkyries(minor and major sections)
Live Audition
- Solo (to be performed without piano): Martin – Ballade for Trombone (complete)
- Etude: One etude of choice from either Bitsch, Boutry, or Bozza
- Orchestral Excerpts:
- Berlioz – Symphonie fantastique
- Mozart – Requiem, Tuba mirum
- Ravel – Bolero
- Rossini – Overture to La Gazza Ladra
- Rossini – Overture to William Tell
- Saint-Saens – Symphony No. 3 “Organ”
- Schumann – Symphony No. 3 “Rhenish”
- Strauss – Also Sprach Zarathustra
- Wagner – Ride of the Valkyries (minor and major sections)
Undergraduate Bass Trombone Requirements (BM/BME)
- Solo (to be performed without piano):
- Lebedev – Concerto in One movement (complete)
- Etude:
- One etude of the applicant’s choice from Bordogni (down an octave if from a tenor version)
- Orchestral Excerpts (B.M. applicants: all five excerpts; B.M.E: choose three):
- Bach – Sarabande from the Fifth Cello Suite
- Berlioz – Hungarian March
- Haydn – The Creation, No. 26
- Wagner – Entrance of the Gods into Valhalla from Das Rheingold
- Wagner – Ride of the Valkyries (minor and major sections)
Graduate Bass Trombone Requirements
Prescreening
- Solo (to be performed without piano): Bozza – New Orleans (beginning to rehearsal 8)
- Orchestral Excerpts:
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- Bach – Sarabande from the Fifth Cello Suite
- Berlioz – Hungarian March
- Haydn – The Creation, No. 26
- Wagner – Entrance of the Gods into Valhalla from Das Rheingold
Live Audition
- Solo (to be performed without piano): Martin – Ballade for Trombone (complete)
- Etude: One etude of choice from either Bitsch, Boutry, or Bozza
- Orchestral Excerpts:
- Bach – Sarabande from the Fifth Cello Suite
- Beethoven – Symphony No. 9
- Berlioz – Hungarian March
- Haydn – The Creation, No. 26
- Kodaly – Hary Janos Suite
- Respighi – Fountains of Rome
- Wagner – Entrance of the Gods into Valhalla from Das Rheingold
- Wagner – Ride of the Valkyries (minor and major sections)