Master of Music in Horn Performance

Online Preliminary Submission by December 1, 2022 by 11:59 PM (EST)

The video submission should be recorded so that all orchestral excerpts are played in succession in any order you wish without stopping the recording or editing. Solos may be pre-recorded.
If you have not heard from us by January 6, 2023, please email us.

Required preliminary repertoire is by video submission

• Exposition of Mozart Concerto No. 4
• Contrasting solo of the applicant's choice
• Orchestral Excerpts: Strauss Till Eulenspiegel (opening horn solo in first horn part); Ravel Piano Concerto in G, movement 1 (#25 - #26 in first horn); Mahler Symphony No. 1, movement 3 (#13 - #15 in second horn); Beethoven Symphony No. 7, movement 1 (m. 84-102 in the first horn part); Shostakovich Symphony No. 5, movement 1 (#17 - #22 in first horn part)

For copies of the above orchestral excerpts, please send your name and intended degree program to Melissa McCrimmon.

Required graduate audition repertoire

• Two contrasting solos of your choice  (examples: first movement of Mozart No. 2 or No. 4 contrasted with a Strauss concerto or major contemporary piece of solo horn)
• Prepare excerpts which cover the following criteria: soft and low (examples: Mahler 1st low tutti or Variation 8 of Strauss’ Don Quixote); soft and high (examples: Ravel Piano Concerto in G Major or Pavane); loud and low (examples: Shostakovich 5th low tutti or Variation 7 of Don Quixote); loud and high (examples: Beethoven 7th or Wagner Siegfried Call); full range (examples: openings of Ein Heldenleben or Till Eulenspiegel)
• In addition, scales, bass clef, sight-reading, and transposition will be tested.

Audition dates are January 27, 28, or February 6, 2023.