**All Auditions for Fall 2021 Admission will be conducted Virtually**

Candidates should prepare two contrasting selections from the standard repertoire for their instrument, which may include solos, etudes and/or orchestral excerpts. Audition material should be thoroughly prepared, approximately 8 to 10 minutes in length, and represent the candidate’s best playing. 

Undergraduate auditions should be submitted through the Music Supplemental Application by February 1, 2021

Applicants will be able to submit a minimum of 2 video links and a maximum of 4. 

For more information and to register for an audition, please see Undergraduate Auditions.

Suggested Audition Repertoire:

• Two works (either an etude or movement of a solo) of contrasting styles, one lyrical, one technical.

Etudes:

• Kopprasch – 60 Studies
• Maxime-Alphonse – Book 1 or 2
• Pottag - Preparatory Melodies
• Shaw - Just Desserts
• Shoemaker - Legato Etudes for Horn
• Musser & Del Borgo - Rhythm of Contemporary Music

Solo Repertoire:

• Mozart – Concerto No. 1
• Franz Strauss – Nocturno
• Saint-Saens - Morceau de Concert
• Cooke - Rondo in Bb
• Effinger - Rondo
• Krol - Laudatio
• Gliere - Intermezzo; Nocturne, Romance
• Piantoni - Air de Chasse
• Cherubini - Sonata No. 1
• Glazunov - Reverie
• Corrette - Concerto in C major "La Choisy"

Optional: Orchestral Excerpts:

• Tchaikovsky – Cantabile solo from Symphony No. 5, Mvt 2 (Hn 1)
• Mendelssohn – Nocturne from Midsummer Night's Dream (Hn 1)
• Beethoven – Scherzo from Sym. No. 3 "Eroica" (Hn 2)
• Brahms – Sym. No. 3, Mvt. 3 (Hn 1)

Questions?

Contact Jeffrey Agrell, associate professor of horm