Pre-screening

There is no pre-screening requirement for Trumpet.

Trumpet Audition Repertoire

Bachelor of Music

• Two solo movements of contrasting styles from the major concerto and sonata repertoire.
• Charlier Etude No. 2 Du Style
• Brandt Etude No. 1, or etude of comparable difficulty level and style.
• Orchestral Excerpts:
  • Mussorgsky: Pictures at an Exhibition – Promenade
  • Resphigi: Pines of Rome – offstage lyrical solo
  • Mahler: Symphony No. 5 – 1st movement opening solo
  • OR 3 excerpts from band and orchestral repertoire of your choice
• Scales in all keys; possible sight reading and transposition

Graduate Degrees (MM, GPD, DMA)

• Haydn Trumpet Concerto – 1st Movement (complete) with Cadenza
• Modern solo of your choice
• Charlier Etude No. 2 Du Style
• Any Bitsch Etude
• Orchestral Excerpts:
  • Mahler: Symphony No. 5 – 1st movement opening solo AND lyrical solo starting one bar before rehearsal 13
  • Stravinsky: Petrouchka – Ballerina Dance
  • Resphigi: Pines of Rome – offstage lyrical solo
  • Beethoven: Leonore Overture – 2 AND 3 offstage trumpet calls
  • Handel: Messiah Trumpet Shall Sound – full movement (on piccolo trumpet)
• Scales in all keys; possible sight reading and transposition

Artist Diploma

AD applicants must prepare a program of no less than 70 minutes duration, representing at least three style periods and including at least two large-scale works.