Audition Repertoire Guidelines

An Etude from one of the following collections:

• Weissenborn 50 Advanced Studies 
• Milde Concert Studies Vol. 1 or 2

And a solo comparable to:

• Boismortier, Sonata No. 2 in B minor 
• Elgar, Romance
• Mozart, Concerto for Bassoon, K. 191 

And two octave (minimum) Major scales and three-octave Chromatic scale using 16th notes @ ? = 60 

• Cavallini Adagio and Tarantella 
• Finzi Five Bagatelles
• Mozart Concerto for Clarinet, K. 622 
• Rossini Introduction, Theme & Variations 
• Weber Concertino, Op. 26
• Weber Concerto in E-flat, Op. 74 No. 2 

And Two octave (minimum) Major scales and three octave F, G, and Chromatic scales using 16th notes @ ?= 80 
 

Two contrasting etudes from books such as Anderson, Berbiguier (18 Studies), Kohler, or Boehm
Two solos to demonstrate tone, technique, and musicianship (preferably of contrasting periods, e.g., Bach “Sonata in Eb,” Fauré “Fantasie”)

Major scales two octaves; chromatic scale (from C to C) three octaves

• Albinoni, Concerto in B-flat, Op. 9 No. 11 
• Bellini/Joosen, Concerto
• Britten, Six Metamorphoses After Ovid, Op. 49 
• Fiala, Concerto in B-flat
• Guilhaud, First Concertino
• Handel, Sonata No. 2 in G minor
• Jacob, Seven Bagatelles for Solo Oboe 
• Mozart, Concerto in C Major, K. 314 
• Poulenc, Sonata
• Strauss, R., Concerto for Oboe
• Vivaldi, Concerto in F major

And Two octave (minimum) Major and Chromatic scales using 16th notes @ ?= 60

Alto Saxophone

• Bozza, Improvisation et Caprice 
• Creston, Sonata for Saxophone 
• Frackenpohl, Rhapsody for Solo Saxophone 
• Handel/Rascher, Sonata No. 13 
• Heiden, Sonata
• Glazunov, Concerto

Tenor Saxophone

• Caravan, Improvisation 
• Ghidoni, Far-West Adventure
• Karlins, Music for Tenor Saxophone & Piano 
• Presser, Sonatina
• Schmidt, Music for Unaccompanied Saxophone

And Two octave (minimum) Major and Chromatic scales (from low Bb to high F) using 16th notes @ ?= 60 

• Beethoven, Sonatas Op. 5 No. 1 & 2
• Bloch, Supplication
• Boccherini, Concerto in B-flat Major (Mvt. 2)
• Glazunov, Chant du Menestral, Op. 71
• Haydn, Concerto in D minor
• Popper, Tarantella
• Reger, Suite No. 2 in D minor
• Saint-Saens, Concerto in A minor Op. 33 or Allegro Appassionato 
• Sammartini, Sonata in G Major

And Two octave (minimum) Major and Chromatic scales using 16th notes @ ? = 60 
 

• Bach, Cello Suite No. 1 
• Marcello, any Sonata
• Scarlatti, any Sonata
• Vivaldi, any Sonata
• Oscar, Zimmerman, Solos for the Double Bass (except No. 6 or 7)

And Two octave (minimum) Major and Chromatic scales using 16th notes @ ? = 60  
 

• Matteo Carcassi, Melodic and Progressive Etudes, Op. 60 
• Fernado Sor, Andres Segovia - 20 Studies for Guitar 
• J.S. Bach, Cello Suite #1
• Antonio Lauro, Works for Guitar, Vol. 3 
• Federico Moreno Torroba, Castles of Spain, Volume 1
• Heitor Villa-Lobos, Suite Populaire Bresilienne,” “The Five Preludes,” Etudes 1, 5, or 11
• Frederick Noad Guitar Anthology: The Renaissance Guitar, The Baroque Guitar, or The Classical Guitar

And Two octave (minimum) Major and Chromatic scales using 8th notes @ ? = 60 

• Andres, Absidioles
• Bochsa, Etudes
• Glinka, Nocturne for Harp 
• Grandjany, Pastorale for Harp 
• Gustafson, Sparklers – “Great Day” 
• Handel/Beon, Passacaglia for Harp 
• Salzebo, Chanson dans la Nuit

Play a three-octave major scale with two hands together at a distance of one octave first, play one octave of the scale in quarter notes up and down; then play the two-octave scale in eighth notes up and down; finally play the three-octave scale in eighth note triplets up and down.

• Bloch Suite for Viola and Piano
• Faure/Katims, Elegy, Op. 24 
• Hindemith, Sonata Op. 11 No. 4 
• Hummel, Fantasie 
• Kreisler/Arnold, Liebesfreud 
• Marcello, Sonatas No. 1 and No. 4
• Telemann/Katims, Concerto in G major 
• Vaughan-Williams, Suite, Groups II & III [Nos. 1 & 2]

And Two octave (minimum) Major and Chromatic scales using 16th notes @ ? = 60  

• Accolay, Concerto No. 1
• Bach, Concerto in A minor
• Beethoven, Sonatas in A minor Op. 23, 30, or 96 [1st or 3rd movements]
• Handel, Sonatas No. 1, 4, or 5
• Massenet, Meditation from “Thais”
• Monti, Czardas for Violin
• Mozart, Violin Concerto No. 3 in G, K. 216
• Mozart, Sonatas K. 301, 376, 377, 378, 454, 570 [Any contrasting movements]
• Rieding, Concertinos Op. 5, Op. 24, and Op. 25
• Severn, Polish Dance
• Telemann, Six Sonatas [Any contrasting movements] 

And Two octave (minimum) Major and Chromatic scales using 16th notes @ ? = 60 
 

• Bach- A two- or three-part Invention, a Prelude and/or Fugue from The Well Tempered Clavier, or two movements from a suite
• Handel- Two movement from a suite 
• D. Scarlatti- Sonata
• Antonio Soler- Sonata

• Kuhlau- Sonatina
• Haydn/Mozart/Beethoven- Sonata movement, fantasy, or variations Clementi- Sonata movement

• Schumann- Work from a collection like Kinderszenen or one of the fantasy Pieces, sonata movement
• Schubert- Impromptu, (Sonatas may be considered Classical or Romantic) Brahms- Waltz, Rhapsody, or a movement from one of the sets
• Chopin- Waltz, Mazurka, Nocturne, Scherzo, Ballade
• Mendelssohn- Fugue, variations, one of the Songs Without Words Rachmaninoff- Prelude, Etude-Tableaux

• Debussy- A Prelude, Arabesque, or a movement from one of the suites 
• Ravel- Sonatine movement, movement from Le Tombeau or other set
• Selections by Griffes 

• Bartok- One of the Rumanian Dances, Sonata movement 
• Prokofieff- An Etude, Sonata movement, or other short work 
• Shostakovich- Prelude, Fugue, or Sonata movement 
• Selections by Turina, Ginastera, Hanson, Barber, Glass