Double Reed Studios - Audition Repertoire

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Bassoon Audition Requirements

Undergraduate Students
Students auditioning for an undergraduate degree should prepare two pieces of contrasting styles and will be expected to play major scales. You should choose repertoire that showcases both your technical and musical ability. One of these works may be an etude. All-state audition etudes are also appropriate. Possible examples of repertoire include, but are not limited to:

Solos

Boismortier: Sonatas (any movement)

Bordeau: Solo No. 2

Brandon: Colored Stones (any movement)

David: Concertino

Dutilleux: Sarabande et Cortege

Galbraith: Sonata for Bassoon and Piano

Hindemith: Sonata for Bassoon and Piano

Hsu: Spring Fever for Bassoon and Piano

Hummel: Grand Concerto for Bassoon and Orchestra in F Major (any movement)

Morris: Mathematics Sonata for Bassoon and Piano

Mozart: Concerto for Bassoon and Orchestra in B-flat Major, K. 191 (any movement)

Osborne: Rhapsody for Bassoon

Pierné: Solo de Concert

Saint-Saëns: Sonata for Bassoon and Piano in G Major, Op. 168 (any movement)

Siquiera: Three Etudes for Bassoon and Piano

Schreck: Sonata for Bassoon and Piano, Op. 9 (any movement)

Telemann: Sonata for Bassoon and Continuo (any movement)

Weber: Concerto for Bassoon and Orchestra in F Major, Op. 75 (any movement)

Weber: Andante and Hungarian Rondo (any movement)

Vivaldi: Concerti

Zwilich: Concerto for Bassoon and Orchestra

Etudes

Weissenborn: Fifty Advanced Studies

Milde: Concert and Scale Studies

Knowledge of reed-making will not be a part of the audition.

Graduate Students
Students auditioning for a graduate degree should prepare two pieces of contrasting styles. One must be a movement from a concerto, and one must be a movement from a sonata (see list above). As well, please be prepared to perform 4 standard orchestral excerpts. It is expected that auditioning graduate students will be prepared to play all major and minor scales.

Knowledge of reed-making will not be a part of the audition.

Oboe Audition Requirements

Undergraduate Students

Students auditioning for an undergraduate degree should prepare two pieces of contrasting styles and will be expected to play major scales. You should choose repertoire that showcases both your technical and musical ability. One of these works may be an etude. All-state audition etudes are also appropriate. Possible examples of repertoire include (but are not limited to):

Solos

• Albinoni, Concerti

• Bacewicz, Sonatina or Sonata

• C.P.E. Bach, Sonata in G minor

• Bellini, Oboe Concerto

• Britten, Six Metamorphoses after Ovid (solo oboe)

• Cimarosa, Concerto

• Coulthard, Three Nature Sketches from Japan

• Cuong, Six Canadian Scenes (solo oboe)

• Dranishnikova, Poeme

• Dutilleux, Sonate

• Gipps, Sea-Shore Suite, Kensington Garden Suite

• Händel, Sonatas or Concertos

• Haydn, Concerto

• Hindemith, Sonata

• Krommer, Concerti

• Marcello, Concerto

• Martinu, Concerto

• Morris, Four Personalities

• Mozart, Concerto

• Nash, Nine New York Miniatures

• Poulenc, Sonata

• Saint-Saëns, Sonata

• R. Schumann, Three Romances

• Still, Incantation and Dance

• Telemann, Sonata in A minor

• Vaughan Williams, Concerto

• Vivaldi, Concerti

Etudes

• Barrett, Melodies or Grand Studies

• Ferling, 48 Etudes

Knowledge of reed making will not be a part of the audition.

Graduate Students

Students auditioning for a graduate degree should prepare two pieces of contrasting styles. One must be a movement from a concerto and one must be a movement from a sonata (see list above). As well, please be prepared to perform 4 standard orchestral excerpts. It is expected that auditioning graduate students will be prepared to play all major and minor scales.

Advanced knowledge of reed making is required for admission.