Audition Requirements

Oboe - Undergraduate

1.  All major scales and minor scales
2.  Chromatic scale, full instrument range (B flat-F)
3.  One Barret or Ferling etude
4.  Solo or movement of solo from one of the following:

   •  Marcello, Concerto in C Minor

   •  Any Handel sonata

   •  Mozart, Concerto in C Major

   •  Mozart, Quartet in F Major

   •  Haydn, Concerto in C Major

   •  Britten, Six Metamorphoses After Ovid

Oboe - Graduate

1. Two contrasting movements from the following list.

   •  Vaughan-Williams, Oboe Concerto

   •  Mozart, Oboe Concerto

   •  Strauss, Oboe Concerto

   •  Dorati, Cinq Pieces Pour Hautbois

   •  Rachmaninoff, Vocalis

   •  Telemann, Fantasies

   •  Britten, Temporal Variations

      2.  Two or three orchestral excerpts of your choice.

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