For your convenience, we have provided sheet music of the required excerpts for RCO Young’s 2019 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)
Tchaikovsky – Symphony No. 5
Movement I: bars 1-37
Beethoven – Symphony No. 6 ‘Pastoral’
Movement I: bars 418-492
Download Audition Excerpt Clarinet (pdf)
Stravinsky – The Firebird
Andante (1-7)
Tchaikovsky – Symphony No. 5
Movement III: bars 37-72
Download Audition Excerpt Bassoon (pdf)
Tchaikovsky – Symphony No. 5
2nd Horn – Movement IV: bars 16-41
1st Horn – Movement II: bars 9 (with upbeat)-29
Download Audition Excerpt Horn (pdf)
Tchaikovsky – Symphony No. 5
Movement IV: bars 474-504; bars 546-end
Download Audition Excerpt Trumpet in A(pdf)
Download Audition Excerpt Trumpet in B flat (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)