2016 All-National Honor Ensembles Audition Repertoire Requirements

 

Symphony Orchestra | Concert Band | Jazz Ensemble | Mixed Choir

Please download the required audition repertoire for your instrument or voice. All video auditions are to be unedited and  unaccompanied.


Symphony Orchestra

Audition requirements may be downloaded below.  Please click on the instrument name for excerpt.

Flute
Piccolo
Oboe
Clarinet
Bassoon
French Horn
Trumpet (Cornet)
Trombone
Bass Trombone
Tuba
Percussion– Timpani audition to be played on 3 timpani.
Harp
Violin  (Excerpt from IMSLP  Petrucci Music Library)
Viola (Excerpt from IMSLP Petrucci Music Library)
Cello (Excerpt from IMSLP Petrucci Music Library)
Double Bass (Excerpt from IMSLP Petucci Music Library)

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Concert Band

Audition requirements may be downloaded below:

Flute
Piccolo
Oboe
Clarinet
Contra-alto/Contrabass Clarinet
Bass Clarinet
Bassoon
Alto Sax
Bari Sax
Tenor Sax
Trumpet (Cornet)

French Horn
Trombone
Bass Trombone
Euphonium
Tuba
Percussion– Timpani audition to be played on 3 timpani.

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Jazz Ensemble

Audition requirements may be downloaded below:

Alto Sax

  • Cottontail-  Letter Q to V
  • Nancy Jo- Letter J-L

Bari Sax

  • Cottontail-  Letter Q to V
  • Nancy Jo- Letter J-L

Tenor Sax

  • Cottontail-  Letter Q to V
  • Nancy Jo- Letter J-L (pick one to play, Reed 3 or Reed 4)

Saxes Showing Clarinet Double

  • Idiom ’59- Pickups to letter E to letter G

Trumpet

  • Flirtibird, Trpt 3 part- Beginning to D

AND pick one of the following:

  • Rockabye River, Trpt 1 part-  Pickups into letter D to letter G
  • Perdido, Trpt 1 part- Letter FF to letter HH

Trombone

  • Blue Cellophane Trombone 1 part – Letter A-C (You may play an octave lower if needed)
  • In a Mellowtone Trombone 1 part- Letter A-C

Rhythm- Please use your all-state excerpts

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Mixed Choir

All voice parts will audition with the following piece. You may establish pitch with a pitch pipe or piano, but your audition piece should be unaccompanied. Tempo should be:  MM=110-112.

Alto, Bass, Soprano, Tenor

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