Graduate Tuba/Euphonium Auditions
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.