Strings, Winds, and Brass Audition Repertoire
Please prepare the following music for your live audition. Live auditions are approximately eight minutes long and unaccompanied.
Prepare seriously for your audition. Very often, the deciding factor between two players of equal merit comes down to which applicant prepared the repertoire excerpts as meticulously as the solo works of the applicant's choice.
We strongly recommend that you become familiar with the complete instrumental part for each work from which excerpts have been assigned. In some cases, the music is in the public domain, but if not, it is worth a visit to the library or the expense to purchase a part in order to be well prepared.
(Thanks to Lucks Music for making these excerpts available to the 2012 New York String Orchestra Seminar applicants.)
Your private teacher should be a valuable resource. Be sure to ask for his or her assistance as you prepare.
Flute (Prepare Flute I except where otherwise noted.)
- A work of your choice
- A contrasting work of your choice (A movement or other excerpt from a lengthy work is acceptable due to time constraints.)
- Beethoven: Piano Concerto No. 2 in B-flat, Op. 19 (PDF)
- Movement 1: 98 - end
- Movement 2: 49 - end
- Movement 3: 181 - end
- Dvorak: Slavonic Dances, Op. 72, No. 2 (PDF)
- Dvorak: Slavonic Dances, Op. 72, No. 7 (piccolo) (PDF)
- Haydn: Symphony No. 104 in D Major "London" (PDF)
- Movement 1: 32-123, 201-end
- Movement 2: Entire
- Movement 3: 1-52
- Movement 4: 45-118, 248-288
- Mendelssohn: Overture to The Hebrides (PDF)
- 19-30, 70-94, 135-179, 266-end
Oboe - play A442 [Prepare Oboe I except where noted otherwise below]
- A Bach work of your choice
- A contrasting solo work of your choice (A movement or other excerpt from a lengthy work is acceptable due to time constraints.)
- Haydn: Symphony No. 104 in D Major "London" (PDF)
- Movement I - Allegro: 17-123
- Movement 2 - 145-end
- Movement 3: Menuetto: Trio (entire, no repeats)
- Mendelssohn: Overture to The Hebrides (PDF)
- Dvorak Slavonic Dances, Op. 46, No. 1 (PDF)(no repeats)
- Opening to Letter C, Letter F to Letter K
- Dvorak Slavonic Dances, Op. 46, No. 3 (PDF)
- Opening to Letter D
- 9 after Letter F to Letter H
- Dvorak Slavonic Dances, Op. 72, No. 2 (PDF) [Oboe II]
- Letter E to Letter F [Oboe II]
- Dvorak Slavonic Dances, Op. 72, No. 7 (PDF) [Oboe II]
- Mozart: Overture to La clemenza di Tito (PDF)
- Solos Letter D - Letter E
Clarinet
- A solo work of choice
- A contrasting work of your choice (a movement or excerpt from a lengthy work is acceptable due to time constraints)
- Mendelssohn: Overture to The Hebrides
- Dvorak: Slavonic Dances Op. 46 (PDF)
- No 1: Bar M - 9th Bar of N
- No. 3: Bar J - 8 before K
- Dvorak: Slavonic Dances Op. 72, No. 7 (PDF)
Bassoon
- Mozart Bassoon Concerto, K. 191 - Mvt 1 - exposition
- A contrasting solo work of your choice (A movement or other excerpt from a lengthy solo work is acceptable due to time constraints)
- Haydn: Symphony No. 104 in D Major "London" (PDF)
- Movement 1: Opening of Adagio to Letter B in Allegro
- Movement 2: 17-37, 114-end of mvt
- Movement 3: entire Trio
- Movement 4: 54-82
- Mendelssohn: Hebrides Overture Fingal's Cave (PDF)
Horn
- Mozart: Choose either the Horn Concerto No. 2 or Horn Concerto No. 4 and prepare the exposition from both Movement 1 and Movement 2
- Strauss: Til Eulenspiegel, opening calls
- Strauss: Ein Heldenleben, opening
- Wagner: Siegfried, short call
- Tchaikovsky: Symphony No. 5, slow movement solo
Trumpet
- Solo work of your choice
- Haydn Trumpet Concerto
- Mendelssohn Hebrides Overture Fingal's Cave (PDF)
- 4 before C until 4 after C
- Mussorgsky/Ravel: Pictures at an Exhibition, opening
- Stravinsky: Petrouchka, ballerina solo
- Mahler: Symphony No. 5, opening
- Resphigi: Pines of Rome, off-stage solo
Violin (prepare Violin I)
- Any work by Bach
- A contrasting work of your choice (A movement or other excerpt from a lengthy work is acceptable due to time constraints)
- Haydn: Symphony No. 104 in D Major, London (PDF)
- Movement I: Allegro before A to double bar after C
- Movement 2: From Letter K to 15 bars before N
- Movement 4: From beginning until 2 bars before 1st ending
- Mendelssohn: Hebrides Overture Fingal's Cave (PDF)
- 9-26
- 57-93
- 217-end (Animato to end)
- Dvora: Slavonic Dances, Op. 46, No. 1
- Dvorak: Slavonic Dances, Op. 46, No. 3
- Dvora: Slavonic Dances, Op. 72, No. 2
- From beginning until bar 49
- Dvorak: Slavonic Dances, Op. 72, No. 7
- From beginning until Letter A
- From I until the end
Viola
Cello
- Any work by Bach
- A contrasting work of your choice (A movement or excerpt from a lengthy work is acceptable due to time constraints)
- Haydn: Symphony No. 104 in D Major, London (PDF)
- Movement I: Letter F - end
- Movement 4: Letter R - 15 after Letter S; Letter V - end
- Mendelssohn: Hebrides Overturen Fingal's Cave (PDF)
- Beginning - bar 39; 47 - 57; 226 - end
Bass
Timpani: Please see the recorded audition requirements. There is no live audition for this position.
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