UNDERGRADUATE PRELIMINARY SUBMISSION due December 1, 2024 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 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 undergraduate 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 22 or 29, 2025.
If you are under the age of 18 at the time of your audition, we will need this form filled out.
