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Tuba/Euphonium Studio

Graduate Audition Information

Euphonium Audition Requirements

  • All major and minor scales - At least two octaves
  • Sight Reading
  • Two contrasting solos/movements from the following list:
    • Cosma: Concerto for Euphonium
    • Sparke: Harlequin
    • Stevens: Soliloquies 
    • Ellerby: Concerto for Euphonium
    • Curnow: Symphonic Variations
    • Sparke: Pantomime
    • Jan Bach: Concert Variations 
    • Kevin Day: Concerto for Euphonium 
    • Wilby: Concerto for Euphonium
  • Four excerpts from the following list:
    • Sousa: Stars and Stripes Forever (no repeats)
    • Schoenberg: Theme and Variations
    • Holst: The Planets - Mars and Jupiter
    • Grainger: Lincolnshire Posy
    • Strauss: Ein Heldenleben
    • King: Melody Shop
    • Shostakovich: Festive Overture
    • Sullivan: Pineapple Poll
    • Holst: Secons Suite for Military Band
    • Tchaikovsky: Finale from Symphony No. 4
    • Grainger: Colonial Song
    • Berlioz: March Hungroise from La Damnation de Faust

Tuba Audition Requirements

  • All major and minor scales - at least two octaves
  • Sight reading
  • Two contrasting solos/movements from the following list:
    • John Williams: Tuba Concerto
    • Penderecki: Capriccio
    • Plog: Three Miniatures
    • Daugherty: Reflections on the Mississippi
    • Vaughan Williams: Concerto for Bass Tuba
    • Broughton: Sonata for Tuba
    • Arutuinian: Concerto for Tuba
    • Plau: Concerto for Tuba
  • Four excerpts from the following list:
    • Berlioz: Hungarian March
    • Berlioz: Symphonie Fantastique
    • Brahms: Symphony No. 2
    • Brukner: Symphony No. 7
    • Prokofiev: Symphony No. 5
    • Stravinsky: Petrouska
    • Strauss: Til Euelenspiegel
    • Respighi: Fountains of Rome
    • Wagner: Ride of the Walkyries
    • Wagner: Overture to Die Meistersinger
    • Grainger: Lincolnshire Posy
    • Sousa: Stars and Stripes Forever
    • Hols: First Suite for Military Band

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