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Audition using the following material. If you cannot attend the live auditions, upload a recording to YouTube and include it in your application in SOMIS.

Technique

Major and minor scales, two octaves, played in quarter-notes at ♩= 120 m.m.

Repertoire

1. Two pieces of contrasting tempo and style: one lyrical and slower, the other more technical and fast. These may be different pieces, or movements from the same sonata or concerto.
2. Two orchestral excerpts from among the following composers: Beethoven, Brahms, Mendelssohn, Mozart, Schubert, R. Strauss, or Tchaikovsky.

For students interested in Jazz Studies:

• One octave scales and modes (Dorian, Phrygian, Lydian, and Mixolydian) in all keys.
• Demonstrate correct ways of playing in swing, Latin, and fusion idioms.
• Prepare one swing tune: play the head, walk one full chorus, and improvise a solo over the changes.