Who can join?

Level:
Advanced
Instruments:
Strings, Brass, Woodwinds and Percussion
Age group:
Advanced High School musicians

Essential Information

Rehearsals:
7:15–9:15pm every Thursday
Rehearsal Location:
generally Oakland University Varner Hall
Tuition:
$425 a year; $25 is non refundable after August 30th
Financial Aid available

Conductor: Zeljko Milicevic

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Audition Requirements

3 to 4 minutes showing technique and tone quality. The solo will be heard unaccompanied and does not need to be memorized.

Percussionists: For pianists/percussionists, prepare a piano solo as well as a solo on your chosen percussion instrument. For percussionists only, prepare a solo on your chosen percussion instrument. You must supply your own mallets and sticks. Instruments will be available at the audition site.

Multiple Instruments: Be prepared to perform a solo on each instrument you would like to play in the orchestra, and schedule an audition time for each instrument.

Sight reading: All auditioning students will be asked to sightread. Materials will be chosen by the conductors.

Scales are not required for any audition.

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Sample Concert Repertoire

West Side Story, Leonard Bernstein
Afro-American Symphony, William Grant Still
El Salon Mexico, Aaron Copland
Symphony No. 2 in C minor, Op. 17, Little Russian, Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky
Pines of Rome, Ottorino Respighi
Capriccio Espagnole, Op. 34, Nicolai Rimsky-Korsakov
The Moldau, Bedrich Smetana
Symphony No. 2, Howard Hanson
Symphony No. 8 in G Major, Op. 88, Antonin Dvorak
Grand Canyon Suite, Ferde Grofe
In the Steppes of Central Asia , Alexander Borodin
Concerto No. 3 in B minor, Op. 61, Camille Saint-Saens *
Overture Solennelle “1812”, Op.49, Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky
Slavonic Dance Op. 46, No. 8, Antonin Dvořák
Symphony No. 9 in E minor, Op. 95 (from the New World), Antonin Dvořák
Danzon No. 2, Arturo Marquez