Symphonic Orchestra Audition Requirements
SYMPHONIC ORCHESTRA AUDITION REQUIREMENTS (2024-2025 Season)
Please prepare a single video with all of the components (scales and solo pieces).
Strings
Woodwinds and Brass
Percussion
Harp
gpyo_strings_audition_24-25.pdf
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gpyo_woodwind_audition_24-25.pdf
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gpyo_brass_audition_24-25.pdf
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gpyo_timpani_audition_24-25.pdf
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gpyo_harp_audition_24-25.pdf
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Please prepare a single video with all of the components (scales and solo pieces).
- Scales – please see below for details.
- Please play the required excerpt from the files in the links below.
- Also choose a 2 minute excerpt of a piece that you are working on.
Strings
- Eb & A scales - 2 octaves, 8 slurred to a bow as eighth notes, with the quarter note = 120
- C melodic minor
- F# melodic minor - two octaves separate bows as quarter notes =120
Woodwinds and Brass
- Eb & A scales - 2 octaves, slurred with the quarter note = 120
- F# melodic minor - two octaves play as quarter notes =120
- C melodic minor
- Chromatic scale (starting note, your choice) – 2 octaves
Percussion
- Snare Drum – Etude from Goldberg: Modern School for Snare Drum, or comparable etude.
- Timpani – Two Drum Etude, from Goodman: Modern Methods for Timpani, or comparable etude.
- Mallet Demonstration – on xylophone, marimba, etc.
Harp
- Arpeggios-A7, G7, C7; 2 octaves up and down, root position.
- Glissando-starting on C with B# and Fb pedals.
- Solo/etude of choice that best demonstrates your musicianship.
gpyo_strings_audition_24-25.pdf
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gpyo_woodwind_audition_24-25.pdf
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gpyo_brass_audition_24-25.pdf
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gpyo_timpani_audition_24-25.pdf
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gpyo_harp_audition_24-25.pdf
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