UNDERGRADUATE PRELIMINARY SUBMISSION due December 1, 2023 by 11:59 PM (EST)
Please use the link at the bottom of this page to upload your prescreening materials in multiple files. There is a $10 fee to use this service. If you have not heard from us by January 4, 2024, please email us.
All trombone applicants are also reminded to be aware of the high school requirements for admission to Rice University.
Required Tenor Trombone prescreening repertoire is by video submission:
- Two contrasting solo pieces which demonstrate tone quality, musicianship, technique, and range
- Orchestral Excerpts:
- Mozart Tuba Mirum from Requiem
- Trombone solo from Boléro by Ravel
- Berlioz Hungarian March
Required undergraduate Tenor Trombone repertoire for the live audition:
- Two contrasting solo pieces which demonstrate tone quality, musicianship, technique, and range
- Orchestral Excerpts:
- Mozart Tuba Mirum from Requiem
- Trombone solo from Boléro by Ravel
- Berlioz Hungarian March
- Major Scales two octaves
- Sight reading (may include Tenor Clef)
No accompanist is needed or desired for the audition.
Required Bass Trombone prescreening repertoire is by video submission:
- Two contrasting solo pieces which demonstrate tone quality, musicianship, technique, and range
- Orchestral Excerpts:
- Haydn Achieved is the Glorious Work from The Creation
- Schumann Symphony No. 3 Rhenisch, 4th movement
- Berlioz Hungarian March
Required undergraduate Bass Trombone repertoire for the live audition:
- Two contrasting solo pieces which demonstrate tone quality, musicianship, technique, and range
- Orchestral Excerpts:
- Haydn Achieved is the Glorious Work from The Creation
- Schumann Symphony No. 3 Rhenisch, 4th movement
- Berlioz Hungarian March
- 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.
If you are under the age of 18 at the time of your audition, we will need this form filled out.