Pre-Screening
All graduate programs in brass performance require pre-screening, so your application must be submitted by the Priority deadline of December 1. Pre-screening materials will be submitted online using Acceptd. Pre-screening selections must include two contrasting works (or movements of works) of standard literature with piano accompaniment, plus one etude and three excerpts, as specified below.
Trumpet graduate pre-screening
- Any etude by Charlier
- Mahler: Symphony No. 5 (opening solo)
- Respighi: Pines of Rome (off-stage solo)
- Stravinsky: "Ballerina's Dance" from Petrouchka
Horn graduate pre-screening
- Any Gallay Etude
- Strauss: Till Eulenspiegel (opening call)
- Beethoven: Symphony 3 (Trio - 2nd horn)
- Brahms: Symphony 1 (2nd Movement - 1st horn)
Tenor trombone graduate pre-screening
- Any etude from Bitsch: 15 Rhythmic Etudes; Bordogni: Vocalises (Book II) ; or Bozza: 13 Caprices
- Mahler: Symphony No. 3, mvmt. 1 (3 after Rehearsal 13 through Rehearsal 17)
- Ravel: Bolero (solo)
- Wagner: "Ride of the Valkyries" (pickup to Rehearsal 4 through 3 after Rehearsal 7)
Bass trombone graduate pre-screening
- Any etude from Maenz: Zwanzig Studien; Snedecor: Low Etudes; or Blazhevich: Low Range Etudes
- Haydn: "Achieved Is Thy Glorious Work" from Die Schöpfung (beginning to C)
- Kodaly: "The Battle and Defeat of Napoleon" from Hary Janos Suite (5 after Rehearsal 5 to long pause)
- Wagner: "Entrance of the Gods into Valhalla" from Das Rheingold (Rehearsal 80 to the end)
Euphonium graduate pre-screening
- Any complete etude from Rochut: Melodious Etudes for Trombone, Book 2
- Sousa: Stars and Stripes Forever (no repeats)
- Schoenberg: Theme and Variations (Variation V; baritone part)
- Grainger: "Horkstow Grange" from Lincolnshire Posy (beginning to m. 17; baritone part)
Tuba graduate pre-screening
- Any complete etude from Rochut: Melodious Etudes for Trombone, Book 2 (down one octave)
- Wagner: Overture to Die Meistersinger (RN J to RN L)
- Prokofiev: Symphony No. 5, mvmt. 1 (RN3 to RN6)
- Berlioz: Hungarian March (RN4 to 4 after RN5)
On-Campus Auditions
For clarification and further information, please contact the appropriate applied faculty:
Brandon Craswell, trumpet
Jean Martin-Williams, horn
Joshua Bynum, trombone
David Zerkel, tuba and euphonium