Please prepare all of the following for your audition:
Timpani
- Bartók Concerto for Orchestra, the Intermezzo (available in Test Pieces for Orchestral Auditions, Schott)
- Bartok Violin Concerto Nr.2, slow movement from upbeat to figure 12 to 3rd bar of figure 16
- Strauss Der Rosenkavalier (‘Big Waltz’) (Available in Test Pieces for Orchestral Auditions, Schott)
- Hindemith Sinfonische Metamorphosen (‘Turandot Scherzo’) (Available in Test Pieces for Orchestral Auditions, Schott)
Xylophone
- Prokofiev Alexander Nevsky (Available in the Goldenberg Book)
- Gershwin Porgy and Bess (Available in Test Pieces for Orchestral Auditions, Schott)
- Hindemith Kammermusik, ‘Movements 1 and 4’ (Available in Test Pieces for Orchestral Auditions, Schott)
Vibraphone
- Bernstein ‘Cool’, West Side Story (Available in Test Pieces for Orchestral Auditions, Schott)
Snare Drum
- Rimsky-Korsakov Scheherazade, ‘Movements 3 and 4’ (Available in Test Pieces for Orchestral Auditions, Schott)
- Ravel Rhapsodie Espagnol ‘Movements 3 and 4’ (available in Hathaway Snare Drum Book)
- Rimsky-Korsakov Capriccio Espagnol (available in the Goldenberg Book)
- Suppé Pique Dame (available in the Goldenberg Book)