UG Brass Audition Requirements

Horn

Performance of one piece selected from the following list, and one piece of your own choice. Scales, arpeggios and sight reading may be given at the discretion of the panel.

Mozart – Horn Concerto No. 3 in Eb, K.447

F Strauss – Nocturno, Op. 7 (Universal)

R Strauss – Concerto No. 1 in Eb, Op. 11, 2nd movement: Andante (Universal)

 

Trumpet

Performance of one piece selected from the following list, and one piece of your own choice. Scales, arpeggios and sightreading may be given at the discretion of the panel.

H Busser – Andante et Scherzo (Leduc/UMP)

J Hubeau – Sonate, 1st and 2nd movements: Sarabande and Intermède (Durand/UMP)

Hummel – Trumpet Concerto, 1st and 2nd movements or 2nd and 3rd movements (Bb or Eb trumpet, any edition). C, A or Eb.    

                                   

Cornet

Performance of one piece selected from the following list, and one piece of your own choice. Scales, arpeggios and sightreading may be given at the discretion of the panel.

Arban – Study No. 10 from Cornet Method (Boosey & Hawkes)

J Hubeau – Sonate, 1st and 2nd movements (Durand/UMP)

D Wright –  Cornet Concerto (Studio Music)

 

Tenor Trombone

Performance of one piece selected from the following list, and one piece of your own choice. Scales, arpeggios and sight reading may be given at the discretion of the panel.

J S Bach – Menuettos 1 and 2  from Cello Suite No 1 in C (arr. Lafosse) (Leduc/UMP)

Galliard – Sonata No. 1, any three of the five movements

Guilmant – Morceau symphonique, Op. 88  (Schott 10484)

 

Bass Trombone

Performance of one piece selected from the following list, and one piece of your own choice. Scales, arpeggios and sight reading may be given at the discretion of the panel.

P McCarty – Sonata for Bass Trombone (Ensemble Publications)

Boutry – Tubaroque (Leduc/UMP)

J S Bach – Menuettos 1 and 2 from Cello Suite No. 1 in C (Leduc/UMP) (arr. Lafosse)

 

Euphonium

Performance of one piece selected from the following list, and one piece of your own choice. Scales, arpeggios and sight reading may be given at the discretion of the panel.

J Horovitz – Euphonium Concerto (Novello)

J S Bach – Cello Suite No. 1 in C (Leduc) (arr. Lafosse)

Arban – Study No. 10 from Cornet Method (Boosey & Hawkes)

 

Tuba

Performance of one piece selected from the following list, and one piece of your own choice. Scales, arpeggios and sight reading may be given at the discretion of the panel.

W Hartley – Suite for unaccompanied Tuba, complete (Elkan-Vogel/UMP)

G Jacob – Tuba Suite, 1st and 2nd movements

Hindemith – Tuba Sonata, 1st movement (Schott 4636)

Vaughan Williams – Tuba Concerto, 1st movement