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Focus on taking Auditions through Masterclasses, Lectures, Sectionals, Mock Auditions and Lessons with Faculty Karl Pituch of the Detroit Symphony Orchestra and Denise Tryon of the Philadelphia Orchestra.

There will be 2 mock auditions that take place through the week: high horn and low horn. In preparation for these mock auditions, there will be mastclasses lead by both Karl Pituch and Denise Tryon on the specific lists. We ask that you print out the lists and come prepared with the music for the specified excerpts. After each mock audition, we will discuss the results of the auditions.

Besides the orchestral excerpts, we ask that you prepare a solo horn piece. We feel that playing an unaccompanied piece will help you prepare for an audition. We will have a masterclass on solo horn pieces and you will have an opportunity to perform the piece sometime during the week.

There will be an opportunity to have a lesson with either Karl or Denise during the week.

We will also be working as sections to explore what makes a great section, and what part you play in that section.

There will be lectures and discussions on audition preparation, performance anxiety, warm up techniques, resumes, plus much more.

Audition Mode will take place at Temple University in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.

Participants must be at least 21.
Auditors must be at least 18.
If you have audited once, but are still under 21, you may be a full participant in the Seminar.

Prices:

Participant:
$1000 (w/room and board)
$650 (w/o room and board)

Auditor:
$550 (w/room and board)
$200 (w/o room and board)

 

 



Application Form


Audition Mode at Boyer College of Music and Dance at Temple University - Download PDF

 

 



Mock Audition Lists

High Horn Audition List (for 2010)- Download PDF


Concerto
  Mozart # 2 or 4 1st movement
Horn 1 Excerpts
  Beethoven Symphony 6 3rd and 5th movement solos
  Beethoven Symphony 7 1st movement
  Berlioz Queen Mab Scherzo (3rd Horn)
  Brahms Symphony 1 2nd and 4th movement solos
  Brahms Symphony 2 1st and 2nd movement solos
  Bruckner Symphony 4 1st movement opening
  Mahler Symphony 5 3rd movement
  Mendelssohn Symphony 3 2nd movement (3rd Horn)
  Mozart Symphony 40 3rd movement
  Ravel Piano Concerto in G 1st movement
  Strauss Don Juan Horn Calls
  Strauss Till Eulenspiegel opening & #28 - #30
  Tchaikovsky Symphony 5 2nd movement solo
  Wagner Short call  


Low Horn (for 2010) - Download PDF


Concerto
  Mozart # 2 or 3 1st movement

Second Horn Excerpts (unless otherwise noted)

  Bach Brandenburg Trio
  Beethoven Symphony 3 3rd movement
  Beethoven Symphony 7 1st and 3rd movements
  Beethoven Symphony 9 3rd movement - 4th horn solo
  Brahms Piano Concerto #2 4th horn
  Haydn Symphony 31 2nd and 4th movements
  Mahler Symphony 1 3rd movement
  Mahler Symphony 3 1st movement #55 - #57 (4th Horn)
  Mahler Symphony 9 1st movement
  Shostatovich Symphony 5 1st movement
  Strauss Don Quixote Variations 7 & 8
  Tchaikovsky Symphony 4 opening
  Wagner Lohengrin Opening to Act III
  Wagner Rheingold Opening



Solo Horn (for 2010) - Download PDF

 

 

  David Amram Blues and Variations for Monk (1982)
  Malcolm Arnold Fantasy
  Sigurd Berge Horn Call (1972)
  Vitaly Buyanovsky Espana
  Peter Maxwell Davies Sea Eagle (1982)
  Otto Ketting Intrada (1958)
  William Kraft Evening Voluntaries (1980)
  Bernhard Krol Laudatio
  Olivier Messiaen Appel Interstellaire
  Vincent Persichetti Parable
  Wolfgang Plagge Monoceros (1990)
  Verne Reynolds Elegy
  Esa-Pekka Salonen Concert etude
  Eric Terwilliger Till Eulenspiegels lustige Streiche