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Euphonium

Undergraduate audition days

  • Friday, Feb. 14, 2025
  • Saturday, Feb. 15, 2025
  • Friday, Feb. 21, 2025
  • Saturday, Feb. 22, 2025

Submission deadline: All undergraduate applications must be submitted by Feb. 1, 2025

Graduate audition days

  • Friday, Feb. 21, 2025
  • Saturday, Feb. 22, 2025

Submission deadline: All graduate applications must be submitted by Dec. 1, 2024

Undergraduate Auditions

Prescreening

No prescreening is required.

Preparation requirements

Candidates should prepare two contrasting selections from the standard repertoire for their instrument, which may include solos, etudes, and/or orchestral excerpts. It is critical that the audition material be thoroughly prepared and represent the candidate’s best playing. 

Time requirement

Time requirement is approximately 8 to 10 minutes in length.

Accompaniment

No accompaniment required.

Technical requirements

No technical requirements.

Suggested repertoire

Euphonium Solos:

  • White Lyric Suite
  • Haddad Suite for Baritone
  • Marcello (any) Sonata
  • Vaughan Williams Six Studies in English Folk Song
  • Capuzzi Andante and Rondo
  • Jacob Fantasia
  • Horovitz Euphonium Concerto

Euphonium Etudes:

  • Arban (Characteristic Studies)
  • Rochut
  • Voxman Selected Studies

Judging criteria

  • Tone quality
  • Musicianship
  • Overall control
  • Competency
  • Technique

FAQs

  1. When am I considered for scholarship?
    • You are considered for scholarship at the time of audition. You will be notified via formal letter about your audition results and music scholarship results in early March.
  2. When will I hear about my results?
    • You will be notified via formal letter about your audition results and music scholarship results in early March

Graduate Auditions

Prescreening

No prescreening required, but it is strongly recommended that you contact Professor Manning for a sample lesson before your audition.

Preparation requirements

  • Two solos, selected from different historical periods of music, and of difficulty and quality appropriate for performance at the graduate level
  • Two Etudes 
  • Three to Five standard orchestral or band excerpts 

Time requirement

No time requirement.

Accompaniment

No accompaniment required.

Technical requirements

No technical requirements.

Suggested repertoire

Solos:

  • Cosma - Euphonium Concerto
  • Gillingham - Blue Lake Fantasies
  • Sparke - Pantomime
  • Horovitz - Euphonium Concerto
  • Curnow - Symphonic Variants
  • Jacob - Fantasia

Band and Orchestral Excerpts:

  • Mussorgsky - Bydlo from Pictures at an Exhibition
  • Holst - The Planets; Mars and Jupiter
  • Mahler - Symphony No. 7
  • Strauss - Don Quixote
  • Strauss - Ein Heldenleben
  • Holst - Military Suites
  • Sousa - Stars and Stripes Forever
  • Grainger - Lincolnshire Posy
  • Grainger - Irish Tune from County Derry
  • Schönberg – Theme and Variations

Etudes:

  • Arban - Characteristic Studies
  • Rochut - Melodious etudes
  • Voxman - Selected Studies

Judging Criteria

  • Tone quality
  • Musicianship
  • Overall control
  • Competency
  • Technique

FAQs

  1. When will I hear about my results?
    • You will be notified via formal letter about your audition results in early March

Questions?

Portrait of John Manning

John Manning

Title/Position
Tuba/Euphonium
Associate Professor
Associate Director of Undergraduate Studies