Master of Music in Trombone Performance

Online Prescreening Submission due December 1, 2023 by 11:59 PM (EST)

Multiple uploaded files of your prescreening requirements are acceptable. If you have not heard from us by January 4, 2024, please email us.

Required Tenor Trombone prescreening repertoire is by video submission:

• Two contrasting movements from a Baroque sonata or Bach cello suite
• Solo of your choice
• Orchestral Excerpts: Mozart Tuba Mirum from Requiem; Trombone solo from Bolero by Ravel; Berlioz Hungarian March (2nd trombone part); Schumann Symphony No. 3, "Rhenisch" 4th mvt. (1st trombone part); Mahler Symphony No. 3, trombone solos from 1st mvt.; Wagner Ride of the Valkyries (both major and minor sections)

Required graduate Tenor Trombone live audition repertoire:

• One Sonata by a Baroque composer such as Galliard, Marcello, Handel, Vivaldi, Telemann, Corelli, or Bach Cello Suite
• One of the following: Dutilleux Chorale, Cadence et Fugato; Grondahl Concerto; Larsson Concertino, or a solo of your choice of comparable difficulty
• Orchestral Excerpts: Mozart Tuba Mirum from Requiem; Trombone solo from Bolero by Ravel; Berlioz Hungarian March (2nd trombone part); Schumann Symphony No. 3, "Rhenisch" 4th mvt.(1st trombone part); Mahler Symphony No. 3, trombone solos from 1st mvt.; Wagner Ride of the Valkyries (both major and minor sections)
• Major Scales two octaves
• Sight reading (may include Tenor and Alto Clefs)

No accompanist is needed or desired for the audition.

Required Bass Trombone prescreening repertoire is by video submission: 

• Two contrasting movements from a Baroque sonata or Bach Cello Suite
• Solo of your choice
• Orchestral Excerpts:
  • Haydn Achieved is the Glorious Work from The Creation
  • Schumann Symphony No. 3 Renisch 4th movement
  • Berlioz Hungarian March
  • Strauss Ein Heldenleben
  • Wagner Entry of the Gods into Valhalla from Das Rheingold
  • Wagner Ride of the Valkyries (both major and minor sections)

Required graduate Bass Trombone live audition repertoire: 

• Two contrasting movements from a Baroque sonata or Bach Cello Suite
• Bozza New Orleans; Pilss Concerto; Ritter-George Concerto; Solo of your choice of comparable difficulty
• Orchestral Excerpts:
  • Haydn Achieved is the Glorious Work from The Creation
  • Schumann Symphony No. 3 Renisch 4th movement
  • Berlioz Hungarian March
  • Strauss Ein Heldenleben
  • Wagner Entry of the Gods into Valhalla from Das Rheingold
  • Wagner Ride of the Valkyries (both major and minor sections)
• Major Scales two octaves
• Sight reading (may include Tenor Clef)

No accompanist is needed or desired for the audition.

Auditions will be held on January 24 or 31, 2024.