Artist Diploma in Trombone Performance

We will not be accepting Artist Diploma applications for Fall 2026. Please contact the Music Admissions Office if you have any questions.

Bass Trombone preliminary submission is by video

• Two contrasting movements from a Baroque sonata or Bach Cello Suite
• Solo 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

Required Bass Trombone audition repertoire

• Two contrasting movements from a Baroque sonata or Bach Cello Suite
• Bozza New Orleans; Pilss Concerto; Ritter-George Concerto; Solo of your choice of comparable difficulty

• 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

• Major Scales two octaves
• Sight reading (may include Tenor Clef)