Faculty
Barbara Butler , Professor of Trumpet, Chair of Brass, Director of the Artist Diploma Program
Audition Requirements
Online Prescreening Submission due December 1, 2025 by 11:59 PM (EST)
Multiple uploaded files of your prescreening requirements are acceptable.
Required prescreening repertoire is by video submission:
- Haydn Concerto (1st mvt, complete with cadenza)
- Honegger Intrada (complete)
- Charlier Étude No. 2 Du Style in Bb on B-flat trumpet, or on C trumpet in B-flat (complete)
Required graduate live audition repertoire:
- Haydn Concerto (1st mvt, complete with cadenza)
- Honegger Intrada (complete)
- Charlier Étude No. 2 Du Style in Bb on B-flat trumpet, or on C trumpet in B-flat (complete)
- Bitsch Étude of your choice, not including lyrical ones (complete)
- Orchestral Excerpts:
- 1947 Stravinsky Petrouchka (ballerina solo)
- Resphigi Pines of Rome (1st mvt and off-stage lyrical solo)
- Mahler Symphony No. 5 (1st mvt complete)
- Bach Magnificat (opening)
- All major and minor scales, sight-reading and transposition
No accompanist is needed or desired for the audition.
Auditions will be held on February 6 and February 7, 2026.