Brass

Audition Requirements for Brass

The following repertoire list is applicable to all music major, minor and scholarship applicants. Should you like to substitute one of the required solo works with a standard orchestral/band excerpt, please contact the Fine Arts Recruitment Office at fineartsrecruit@pepperdine.edu.

In addition to the following requirements, you may submit additional footage of jazz playing for special consideration. All materials must be submitted via the supplemental Fine Arts application.

Each applicant to the instrumental performance program is also required to participate in an interview with the music faculty. Participating in a live audition day, either virtually or in-person, will fulfill this requirement. If you are unable to participate in a live audition day, please reach out to the Fine Arts Recruitment Office to schedule your interview.

Horn

Two major and two harmonic minor scales (two octaves)
Two contrasting movements, pieces, or etudes from the list below or from selections of comparable difficulty
- Beethoven: Sonata
- Glazunov: Reveries
- Heiden: Sonata
- Mozart: Concertos 1-4; Concert Rondo
- Saint-Saëns: Concertpiece; Romance, Op. 36
- Scriabin: Romance
- F. Strauss: Concerto, Op. 8; Nocturno, Op. 7
- R. Strauss: Concerto No. 1

Trumpet

All Major scales, two octaves when possible
Two etudes from standard method/etude books
Two contrasting movements, pieces, or etudes from the list below or from selections of comparable difficulty
- Haydn Concerto in Eb
- Hummel Concerto in Eb
- Arutunian Concerto
- Hindemith Sonata
- Kennan Sonata
- Goedicke Concert Etude

Trombone

Two substantial etudes from standard method/etude books
Two contrasting movements, pieces, or etudes from the list below or from selections of comparable difficulty
- Blazhevich Concert Piece No. 5
- Galliard Sonatas No. 1-3
- Guilmant Morceau Symphonique
- Marcello Sonata in F Major
- Ropartz Andante et Allegro
- Barat Andante et Allegro
- Rousseau Piece Concertante
- Morel Piece in F-Minor
- Hindemith Drei leichte Stucke

Bass Trombone

One etude from method books by Alan Ostrander, Kopprasch, Tyrrell, Blazhevich or Grigoriev
One etude from Bordogni's 43 Bel Canto Studies
Two contrasting movements, pieces, or etudes from the list below or from selections of comparable difficulty
- Sarabande from Bach Cello Suite
- Lebedev Concerto
- Lieb Concertino
- McCarty Sonata
- One of the bass trombone solo works by Eric Ewazen

Euphonium

One standard etude (Suggested: Voxman Selected studies, Bordogni and Rochut Melodious Studies, Vol. 1, and Arban Characteristic Studies)
Two contrasting movements from works of your choice (Standard repertoire of comparable difficulty to: Curnow Rhapsody for Euphonium, Arban Carnival of Venice or Variations on a Tyrolean Song, DeLuca Beautiful Colorado, Clinard Sonata for Unaccompanied Euphonium)

Tuba

Two contrasting etudes from the list below or from selections of comparable difficulty:
- Grigoriev Studies for Tuba
- Bordogni Legato Etudes Vol. 1
- Blazhevich 70 Studies for Tuba
Two contrasting movements or pieces from the list below or from selections of comparable difficulty:
- Haddad Suite for Tuba
- Hindemith Sonata for Bass Tuba
- Vaughan Williams Concerto for Bass Tuba
- Holmes Lento
- Wilder Suite No. 1 for Tuba
- Marcello Sonata in F-Major or Sonata in A-Minor

For more information, please contact the Fine Arts Recruitment Office at 310.506.4111, or via email at fineartsrecruit@pepperdine.edu.

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