Master of Music in Trombone Performance

Online Prescreening Submission due December 1, 2025 by 11:59 PM (EST)

Multiple uploaded files of your prescreening requirements are acceptable.

Required graduate Tenor Trombone prescreening repertoire is by video submission:

• 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, first trombone solo from 1st mvt.
  • Wagner Ride of the Valkyries (major section)

Required graduate Tenor Trombone live audition repertoire:

• Two contrasting movements by a Baroque composer such as Galliard, Marcello, Handel, Vivaldi, Telemann, Corelli, or Bach
• Another solo piece 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, first trombone solo from 1st mvt.
  • Wagner Ride of the Valkyries (major section)
• Major Scales (two octaves)
• Sight reading (may include Tenor and Alto Clefs)

No accompanist is needed or desired for the audition.

Required graduate Bass Trombone prescreening repertoire is by video submission: 

• Solo of your choice
• Orchestral Excerpts:
  • Haydn Achieved is the Glorious Work from The Creation
  • Schumann Symphony No. 3 "Rhenish" 4th mvt.
  • Wagner Entry of the Gods into Valhalla from Das Rheingold
  • Wagner Ride of the Valkyries (major section)

Required graduate Bass Trombone live audition repertoire: 

• Two contrasting movements from a Baroque sonata or Bach Cello Suite
• Another solo piece 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 (major section)
• 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 20, 27, or 28, 2026.