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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.

1. Scales: Perform all major scales and the chromatic scale in the full range of the instrument in sixteenth notes at a tempo of ♩ = 96 m.m. or faster. Play them legato and with single-tongued staccato.
2. Excerpts and/or solo, to display:
   
   1. Technical facility and rhythm: music containing a generous number of passages comprising the equivalent of at least four consecutive sixteenth notes at a tempo of ♩= 80 m.m. or faster.
   2. Expression and tone: slower music chosen to demonstrate ability to play legato and with mature musical feeling and intonation.
3. If you have skills in jazz, be prepared to play the following:
   
   1. The head from a traditional Bebop tune, such as from the Charlie Parker Omnibook, or a comparable source.
   2. Improvise over a jazz standard.
4. Sight-reading (for live auditions only).