All applicants should prepare to play one major, one minor (all 3 forms) and one chromatic scale, two octaves.

Applicants should prepare two pieces in contrasting styles (excerpts are acceptable), approximately 10 minutes total. Suggested repertoire for each instrument listed below. Substitute selections are allowed.

FLUTE

Applicants should prepare one major, one minor (all 3 forms) and one chromatic scale, two octaves and two pieces in contrasting styles of the applicant's choice (excerpts are acceptable). Approximately 10 minutes of music total.

Examples:

Etudes and Studies

Rubank | Advanced Method Vol. 1 or 2 (any etude)

Cavally | Melodious and Progressive Studies, Book 1 or 2 (any etude)

Solo Repertoire

Bach | Suite in b minor

Faure | Morceau de Concours

Griffes | Poem

Handel | Sonatas (any)

Mozart | Concerto

Telemann | Sonatas (any)

Vivaldi | Six Sonatas (any)

OBOE

Applicants should prepare one major, one minor (all 3 forms) and one chromatic scale, two octaves and two pieces in contrasting styles of the applicant's choice (excerpts are acceptable). Approximately 10 minutes of music total.

Examples:

Etudes and Studies

Barret | 40 Progressive Melodies (any)

Brod | 20 Studies (any)

Ferling | 48 Etudes (any) 

Hite | Melodious and Progressive Studies (any)

Solo Repertoire

Cimarosa | Concerto in C minor

Handel | Sonatas (any)

Marcello | Concerto

Telemann | Sonatas (any)

Vivaldi | Sonatas (any)

CLARINET

Applicants should prepare one major, one minor (all 3 forms) and one chromatic scale, two octaves and two pieces in contrasting styles of the applicant's choice (excerpts are acceptable). Approximately 10 minutes of music total.

Examples:

Etudes and Studies

Rubank | Advanced Method Vol. 1or 2 (any etude)

Hite | Melodious and Progressive Studies

Rose | 32 Studies

Solo Repertoire

Debussy | Girl with the Flaxen Hair 

Finzi | Five Bagatelles

Mozart | Concerto

Stamitz | Concerto in B-flat 

Tartini | Concertino

Weber | Concertino

BASS CLARINET

Applicants should prepare one major, one minor (all 3 forms) and one chromatic scale, two octaves and two pieces in contrasting styles of the applicant's choice (excerpts are acceptable). Approximately 10 minutes of music total.

Examples:

Boni/Voxman | Largo and Allegro

Bozza | Ballade

Galliard/Merriman | Adagio and Allegro

BASSOON

Applicants should prepare one major, one minor (all 3 forms) and one chromatic scale, two octaves and two pieces in contrasting styles of the applicant's choice (excerpts are acceptable). Approximately 10 minutes of music total.

Examples:

Etudes and Studies

Milde | 25 Studies (any)

Weissenborn | Practical Method (any etude)

Solo Repertoire

Galliard | Sonatas (any)

Mozart | Concerto

Telemann | Sonata in F Minor 

Weber | Concerto

SAXOPHONE

Applicants should prepare one major, one minor (all 3 forms) and one chromatic scale, two octaves and two pieces in contrasting styles of the applicant's choice (excerpts are acceptable). Approximately 10 minutes of music total.

Examples:

Etudes and Studies

Ferling | 48 Famous Etudes (any etude)

Rubank | Selected Studies (any etude)

Solo Repertoire

Bozza | Aria (alto or baritone)

Eccles/Rascher | Sonata (alto or baritone)

Glazunov | Concerto (alto)

Handel | Sonata No. 3 (alto or baritone)

Heiden | Sonata (alto) 

Maurice | Tableaux de Provence                                

Teal | Solos for the Alto Saxophone Player (alto or baritone)

Teal | Solos for the Tenor Saxophone Player  

Voxman | Concert and Contest Collection for Alto Saxophone (baritone)

Voxman | Concert and Contest Collection for Tenor Saxophone

Ostransky | Contest Caprice (tenor)  

Singalee | Solo de Concours (tenor)