General Requirements

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

Suggested Graduate Tuba Audition Literature:

Solos:

• Vaughan Williams - Concerto for Bass Tuba
• Hindemith - Sonata for Tuba and Piano
• Plog - Three Miniatures
• Penderecki - Capriccio
• Broughton - Sonata
• John Williams - Tuba Concerto

Orchestral Excerpts:

• Berlioz - Hungarian March
• Berlioz - Symphonie Fantastique
• Brahms - Symphony No. 2
• Bruckner - Symphony No. 7
• Prokofiev - Symphony No. 5
• Stravinsky - Pertrouska
• Strauss - Til Euelenspiegel
• Respighi - Fountains of Rome
• Wagner - Ride of the Walkyries
• Wagner - Overture to Die Meistersinger

Etudes:

• Bordogni 43 Bel Canto Studies
• Kopprasch 60 Selected Studies 

Suggested Graduate Euphonium Audition Literature:

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

Questions?

Contact Professor John Manning.