For your convenience, we have provided sheet music of the required excerpts for Young’s 2020 application. If you are unfamiliar with these excerpts, or with performing excerpts in general, we encourage you to listen to recordings of the pieces and bring the excerpts to your private instructors or ensemble leaders for their input.
Bach – Orchestral Suite No. 2
Movement I: bars 21-56
Mozart – Symphony No. 39
Movement IV: beginning-bar 104
Mahler – Symphony No. 1
Movement IV: Number 16-19
Download Audition Excerpt Violin (pdf)
Mozart – Symphony No. 31 ‘Paris’
Movement I: beginning-bar 40 and bars 65-122
Beethoven – Symphony No. 5
Movement II: beginning-bar 10
Download Audition Excerpt Viola (pdf)
Mozart – Symphony No. 41 ‘Jupiter’
Movement IV: bars 46-73
Brahms – Symphony No. 2
Movement II: bars 1-15 and bars 49-55
Download Audition Excerpt Cello (pdf)
Movement III: Trio, bars 141-213
Download Audition Excerpt Double Bass (pdf)
Bizet – Entr’acte from Carmen
Beginning until five bars before Letter B
Mozart – 1st Act from The Magic Flute
Bars 160-182
Download Audition Excerpt Flute (pdf)
Beethoven – Symphony No. 9
Movement IV: bars 343-431
Download Audition Excerpt Piccolo (pdf)
Beethoven – Symphony No. 3
Movement II: beginning until four bars before Letter B
Rossini - La scala di seta
Overture: bars 6-[1]; [2] to [3]
Download Audition Excerpt Oboe (pdf)
Brahms – Symphony No. 2
Movement I: bars 246-274; bars 294-302
Movement II: bar 102-end
Movement IV: bars 122-138; bars 216-221
Beethoven – Symphony No. 6 ‘Pastoral’
Movement I: bars 418-492
Download Audition Excerpt Clarinet (pdf)
Stravinsky – The Firebird
Andante (1-7)
Brahms – Symphony No. 2
Movement II: bars 1-4; bars 19-27; 97-100
Movement IV: beginning-bar 13 (bassoon 2); bars 13-37; bars 118-135
Download Audition Excerpt Bassoon (pdf)
Brahms – Symphony No. 2
1st Horn in D – Movement I: bars 447-478
1st Horn in B/H basso – Movement II: beginning-32
2nd Horn in D – Movement I: bars 254-298
2nd Horn in D – Movement IV: 409-end
Download Audition Excerpt Horn (pdf)
Brahms – Symphony No. 2
Movement I: bars 282-298; bars 513-end
Movement IV: bars 397-end
Download Audition Excerpt Trumpet (pdf)
Mozart – Tuba mirum from the Requiem
Beginning to B
Berlioz – Hungarian March from La damnation de Faust
One bar before [4] to three bars after [5]
Download Audition Excerpt Trombone (pdf)
Schumann – Symphony No. 3
Movement IV: bars 1-23
Berlioz – Hungarian March from La damnation de Faust
One bar before [4] to three bars after [5]
Download Audition Excerpt Bass Trombone (pdf)
Wagner – Overture to Die Meistersinger von Nürnberg
Letter J-Letter L
Respighi – Fontane di Roma
Allegro vivace (Number 11-14)
Download Audition Excerpt Tuba (pdf)
Beethoven – Symphony No. 9
Movement I: bars 17-86 and bars 513-end
Woud – Timpani solo piece
Download Audition Excerpt Timpani (pdf)