Audition excerpts

Audition excerpts

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.

Violin

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)

Viola

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)

Cello

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)

Double Bass

Movement III: Trio, bars 141-213

Download Audition Excerpt Double Bass (pdf)

Flute

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)

Piccolo

Beethoven – Symphony No. 9
Movement IV: bars 343-431

Download Audition Excerpt Piccolo (pdf) 

Oboe

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)

Clarinet

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)

Bassoon

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)

Horn

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)

Trumpet

Brahms – Symphony No. 2
Movement I: bars 282-298; bars 513-end
Movement IV: bars 397-end

Download Audition Excerpt Trumpet (pdf)

Trombone 

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)

Bass Trombone

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)

Tuba 

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)

Timpani

Beethoven – Symphony No. 9
Movement I: bars 17-86 and bars 513-end

Woud – Timpani solo piece

Download Audition Excerpt Timpani (pdf)