Audition Requirements
Graduate Prescreening Submission due December 1, 2025 by 11:59 PM (EST)
The prescreening 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.
Required graduate prescreening 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 Nicolás Kruger-Seiler.
Required graduate live 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.
No accompanist is needed or desired for the audition.
Auditions will be held January 23, 24, or February 6, 7, 2026.