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.