Excerpt List
Please scroll down to find your instrument and audition instructions (if any) below. For any excerpts that have multi-measure rests, please do not count out the entire section. You should rest one or two measures and then continue with the next section. [Click to view each excerpt, right-click (Windows) or option-click (Mac) to download]
Violin Excerpts
Mandatory:
Strauss: Don Juan (Beginning through downbeat of letter B)
Please choose one of the following
Mendelssohn: Midsummer Night’s Dream
Beethoven: Symphony no. 3
Viola Excerpts
Mandatory:
Shostakovich: Symphony no. 5 (I. Movement, Figure 15 through Figure 17)
Please choose one of the following:
Mozart: Symphony no. 40
Tchaikovsky: Symphony no. 6
Cello Excerpts
Mandatory
Strauss: Don Juan (7 before letter G until H)
Please choose one of the following:
Mozart: Symphony no. 41
Tchaikovsky: Symphony no. 6
Bass Excerpts
Beethoven: Symphony no. 9
Mozart: Symphony no. 40
Strauss: Don Juan
Flute Excerpts
Please prepare one of the following two excerpts:
Brahms: Symphony no. 4
Debussy: Prelude to the Afternoon of a Faun
Please also prepare one of the following two excerpts:
Mendelssohn: A Midsummer Night’s Dream
Rossini: Thieving Magpie
Piccolo – to be considered for piccolo, please prepare two orchestral excerpts of your choice in addition to the flute excerpts. You must supply copies of these excerpts when you check in for the audition.
Oboe Excerpts
Please prepare one of the following two excerpts:
Brahms: Violin Concerto
Tchaikovsky: Symphony no. 4
Please also prepare one of the following two excerpts:
Rossini: La Scala di Seta
Ravel: Tombeau de Couperin (beginning through Fig. 9)
English Horn – to be considered for English Horn, please prepare the two orchestral excerpts below in addition to the oboe excerpts:
Dvorak: New World Symphony
Berlioz: Roman Carnival Overture
Clarinet Excerpts
Beethoven: Symphony no. 6
Kodaly: Dances of Galanta
Rimsky-Korsakov: Capriccio espagnol
E-flat/Bass Clarinet - to be considered for these instruments, please prepare two orchestral excerpts of your choice in addition to the clarinet excerpts. You must supply copies of these excerpts when you check in for the audition.
Bassoon Excerpts
Please prepare the following excerpt:
Dukas: Sorcerer’s Apprentice
Please also prepare one of the following two excerpts:
Ravel: Bolero
Tchaikovsky: Symphony no. 4
Additional Excerpts, if requested by Music Director:
Beethoven: Symphony no. 6
Tchaikovsky: Symphony no. 6
Contrabassoon - to be considered for contrabassoon, please prepare two orchestral excerpts of your choice in addition to the bassoon excerpts. You must supply copies of these excerpts when you check in for the audition.
French Horn Excerpts
Please prepare the following excerpt:
Strauss: Till Eulenspiegel
Please also prepare one of the following two excerpts:
Shostakovich: Symphony no. 5
Wagner: Götterdämmerung (Short Call)
Trumpet Excerpts
Please prepare the following excerpts:
Stravinsky: Petrouchka
Respighi: Pines of Rome
Tenor Trombone Excerpts
Please prepare one of the following two excerpts:
Wagner: Die Walküre
Strauss: Till Eulenspiegel
Please also prepare the following excerpt:
Mozart: Requiem
Bass Trombone Excerpts
Please prepare one of the following two excerpts:
Haydn: The Creation
Berlioz: Hungarian March
Please also prepare the following excerpt:
Schumann: Symphony no. 3
Tuba Excerpts
Please prepare both excerpts:
Wagner: Meistersinger
Berlioz: Hungarian March
Harp Excerpts
Please prepare all three excerpts:
Mahler: Symphony no. 5
Rimsky-Korsakov: Capriccio espagnol
Tchaikovsky: Waltz of the Flowers
Percussion [Please choose one excerpt from each of the three instrument categories below]:
Timpani Excerpts [Choose one]
Hindemith: Symphonic Metamorphosis
Holst: The Planets
Tchaikovsky: Symphony no. 4
Mallet Instruments [Choose one]
Dukas: Sorcerer’s Apprentice
Gershwin: Porgy and Bess
Mozart: Magic Flute
Snare Drum [Choose one]
Delécluse: Etude no. 1
Prokofiev: Lieutenant Kije
Rimsky-Korsakov: Scheherazade (Mvm’t 3)