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. There is a $10 fee to use this service. Multiple uploaded files of your prescreening requirements are acceptable.
Trumpet applicants are also reminded to be aware of the high school requirements for admission to Rice University.
Required undergraduate prescreening repertoire is by video submission:
- Enesco Legende (all but muted ending)
- Solo of your choice
- Charlier Étude No. 2 Du Style in Bb on B-flat trumpet, or on C trumpet in B-flat (complete)
Required undergraduate live audition repertoire:
- Enesco Legende (all but muted ending)
- Solo of your choice
- Brandt Étude No. 1 on Bb trumpet
- Charlier Étude No. 2 Du Style in Bb on B-flat trumpet, or on C trumpet in B-flat (complete)
- Orchestral Excerpts:
- 1947 Stravinsky Petrouchka (ballerina and waltz)
- Beethoven Leonore No. 2 (off-stage solo)
- Mussorgsky's Pictures at an Exhibition (opening promenade)
- Mahler Symphony No. 5 (opening solo)
- All major and minor scales, sight-reading, and transposition
No accompanist is needed or desired for the audition.
Auditions will be held January 31 or February 1, 2025.
If you are under the age of 18 at the time of your audition, we will need this form filled out.
