Audition Requirements
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.
Horn applicants are also reminded to be aware of the high school requirements for admission to Rice University.
The prescreening repertoire should be recorded so that all orchestral excerpts are played in succession in any order you wish without stopping the recording or editing. Solos may be pre-recorded.
Required undergraduate prescreening repertoire is by video submission:
- Exposition of Mozart Concerto No. 4
- Contrasting solo of the applicant's choice
- Orchestral Excerpts:
Strauss Till Eulenspiegel (opening horn solo in first horn part)
Ravel Pavane pour une infante défunte (opening horn solo in first horn part)
Mahler Symphony No. 1, movement 3 (m. 13 - 15 in second horn)
Shostakovich Symphony No. 5, movement 1 (#17 - 22 in first horn part)
For copies of the above orchestral excerpts, please send your name and intended degree program to Melissa McCrimmon.
Required undergraduate live audition repertoire:
- Two contrasting solos of your choice (examples: first movement of Mozart No. 2 or No. 4 contrasted with R. Strauss concerto)
- Excerpts which cover the following criteria:
soft and low (examples: Mahler 1st low tutti or Variation 8 of Strauss’ Don Quixote)
soft and high (examples: Ravel Piano Concerto in G Major or Pavane)
loud and low (examples: Shostakovich 5th low tutti or Variation 7 of Don Quixote)
loud and high (examples: Beethoven 7th or Wagner Siegfried Call)
full range (examples: openings of Ein Heldenleben or Till Eulenspiegel) - In addition, scales, sight-reading, bass clef and transposition will be tested.
No accompanist is needed or desired for the audition.
Auditions will be held January 14, 15, or February 17, 2025.
If you are under the age of 18 at the time of your audition, we will need this form filled out.