GUILDHALL ARTIST MASTERS IN ORCHESTRAL ARTISTRY
AUDITION REQUIREMENTS FOR WIND, BRASS & PERCUSSION
All candidates for wind and brass auditions must prepare:
1) The set work (first movement only)
2) One own choice piece
3) The prescribed orchestral excerpts
An accompanist is provided (you must bring the piano parts with you to the audition).
SET WORKS
FLUTE
Mozart: Concerto in G
OBOE
Mozart: Concerto in C
CLARINET
Mozart: Concerto in A
BASSOON
Mozart: Concerto in Bb
HORN
Mozart: Concerto No.4 in Eb Major K.495
TRUMPET
Haydn: Concerto in Eb
(one piece, either the set work or own choice,
must be played on the Bb trumpet)
TENOR TROMBONE
Gordon Jacob: Concerto
BASS TROMBONE
Lebedev: Concerto
TUBA
Vaughan Williams: Concerto
TIMPANI AND PERCUSSION
Candidates must play two own choice pieces demonstrating facility on keyboard percussion
(marimba or vibraphone) and either multi-percussion, snare drum or timpani.
Requests for instruments for multi-percussion set-ups must be emailed to
michal.rogalski@gsmd.ac.uk when you are offered an audition time, and no later than two
weeks before the audition date.
ORCHESTRAL EXCERPTS
These can mostly be found in Orchester Probespiel (Edition Peters), but any commonly-used excerpt
book or standard edition of the orchestral part is acceptable.
FLUTE
Beethoven: Leonora Overture No. 3
Mahler: Symphony No. 9
Mendelssohn: A Midsummer Night’s Dream
(Scherzo)
Ravel: Daphnis and Chloë
OBOE
Brahms: Violin Concerto
Rossini: The Silken Ladder Overture
Ravel: Le Tombeau de Couperin
Tchaikovsky: Symphony No. 4 in F minor
CLARINET
Beethoven: Symphony No.6 in F major
“Pastoral”
Mendelssohn: A Midsummer Night’s Dream
(Scherzo)
Brahms: Symphony No. 3 in F
Stravinsky: The Firebird Suite (1945)
(Variation movement only)
BASSOON
Brahms: Violin Concerto (2nd Bassoon only)
Mozart: The Marriage of Figaro Overture
Shostakovich: Symphony No.9
Tchaikovsky: Symphony No.5 in E minor
HORN
Beethoven: Symphony No.9 in D minor (4th
Horn)
Mahler: Symphony No.9
Strauss: Ein Heldenleben
Rossini: The Barber of Seville Overture
TRUMPET
Mahler: Symphony No.5 (1st movement)
Ravel: Piano Concerto in G
Strauss: Ein Heldenleben (Eb trumpet part)
Stravinsky: Petrouchka
TUBA
Berlioz: King Lear
Mahler: Symphony No. 2 in C minor ("Resurrection")
Tchaikovsky: Symphony No.5 in E minor
Wagner: The Ride of the Valkyries (from Die Walküre)
TIMPANI AND PERCUSSION
Timpani
Beethoven: Symphony No. 9 in D minor
Stravinsky: The Rite of Spring
Tuned Percussion
Stravinsky: Petrouchka (1911) (xylophone)
Copland: Appalachian Spring (xylophone)
Gershwin: Porgy & Bess, opening passage (xylophone)
Dukas: Sorcerer’s Apprentice (glockenspiel)
Snare Drum
Rimsky-Korsakov: Scheherazade (movements 3 & 4)
Bartók: Concerto for Orchestra (second movement)
Prokofiev: Lieutenant Kijé
TENOR TROMBONE
Mahler: Symphony No. 3 in D minor
Mozart: Requiem - Tuba Mirum
Wagner: Tannhäuser overture
Rossini: William Tell Overture
BASS TROMBONE
Kodåly: Háry János
Rossini: William Tell Overture
Wagner: The Ride of the Valkyries (from Die
Walküre)
Tchaikovsky: Symphony No. 5 in E minor