Grad School Auditions

What I have ahead of me:

Horn

Applicants will read an orchestral excerpt and demonstrate familiarity with all major and minor scales and arpeggios. In addition applicants will play:

1. one movement of a concerto or sonata
2. one étude by Kopprasch and one by Gallay
3. the following orchestral excerpts:
   • the last movement of Brahms’s Symphony No. 1
   • the second-horn part from the trio of the third movement of Beethoven’s Symphony No. 3
   • the second movement of Tchaikovsky’s Symphony No. 5
   • R. Strauss’s Till Eulenspiegel
   • Ravel’s Pavane
   • the short call from Wagner’s Siegfried’s Rheinfahrt
   • the first movement of Beethoven’s Symphony No. 7
   • the third movement of Brahms’s Symphony No. 3