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Essential Information
Conductor: Wendy Stuart
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
Pirates of the Caribbean: At World's End, Hans Zimmer
American Salute, Morton Gould
Poet and Peasant Overture, Franz von Suppe
Danse Negre, Op. 35, No. 4 from the African Suite, Samuel Coleridge-Talyor
Carmen, Selections from Suites 1 and 2, Georges Bizet
Hungarian Dance No. 5, Johannes Brahms; transcribed by Albert Parlow
Alasdroim, Kirt Mosier
Danse Macabre, Op. 40, Camille Saint-Saens
Marche Militaire, Op. 51, No. 1, Franz Schubert; arr. by Dr. Leopold Damrosch
Video Games Live , Ralph Ford
Concerto in C Major for Violoncello and Orchestra, Joseph Haydn *
Overture to The Barber of Seville, Gioacchino Rossini
Variations on a Shaker Melody, Aaron Copland
Dance of the Comedians from The Bartered Bride, Bedrich Smetana
Symphonic Sketches, George Whitefield Chadwick