UNDERGRADUATE PRELIMINARY SUBMISSION due December 1, 2025 by 11:59 PM (EST)
Please use the link at the bottom of this page to upload your prescreening materials in multiple files.
All trombone applicants are also reminded to be aware of the high school requirements for admission to Rice University.
Required undergraduate Tenor Trombone prescreening repertoire is by video submission:
- Two contrasting solo pieces
- Orchestral Excerpts:
- Mozart: Requiem - "Tuba mirum"
- Ravel: Boléro - trombone solo
- Berlioz: Hungarian March
Required undergraduate Tenor Trombone repertoire for the live audition:
- Two contrasting solo pieces
- Orchestral Excerpts:
- Mozart: Requiem - "Tuba mirum"
- Ravel: Boléro - trombone solo
- Berlioz: Hungarian March
- Major Scales two octaves
- Sight reading (may include Tenor Clef)
No accompanist is needed or desired for the audition.
Required undergraduate Bass Trombone prescreening repertoire is by video submission:
- Two contrasting solo pieces
- Orchestral Excerpts:
- Haydn: The Creation - "Achieved is the Glorious Work"
- Schumann: Symphony No. 3 (Rhenisch) - Mvt. 4: "Feierlich"
- Berlioz: Hungarian March
Required undergraduate Bass Trombone repertoire for the live audition:
- Two contrasting solo pieces
- Orchestral Excerpts:
- Haydn: The Creation - "Achieved is the Glorious Work"
- Schumann: Symphony No. 3 (Rhenisch) - Mvt. 4: "Feierlich"
- 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 20, 27, or 28, 2026.
If you are under the age of 18 at the time of your audition, we will need this form filled out.
