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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

1. Scales: Any two scales, one in major and one in minor, covering three octaves, in sixteenth notes at a tempo of ♩ = 96 m.m. or faster. Demonstrate slurred, detache, spiccato, and sautille bowings.
2. Arpeggios in a major and minor key other than those selected for the scales, played at the same tempo as the scales, three octaves, with slurred and spiccato bowings.

Repertoire

1. A movement from solo Bach Suite or a Telemann Fantasie.
2. A slow movement from a sonata, concerto, or a slow piece that demonstrates tone quality.
3. A fast movement from a concerto that demonstrates technical ability (such as those by Stamitz, Hindemith, Bartok, etc).