2011-2012 Season Audition Schedule

Auditions are held at St. Luke's Lutheran Church at 3200 Park Road (corner of Park and Marsh Roads).

Charlotte Symphony Youth Orchestra

Junior Youth Orchestra

2011 JYO AUDITION REQUIREMENTS

ALL INSTRUMENTS:
Sight reading; play a solo of your choice showing your abilities and range. Please bring a copy of your solo for the judges.

IN ADDITION:

Winds and Brass:
Major scales of one or two octaves from the following: C, Bb, F, Eb, G, D, A, and a chromatic scale.

Violin:
Major scales, 2 octaves required, 3 preferable: G, A, Bb, D.

Viola:
Major scales, 2 octaves: C, D, Eb, G.

Cello:
Scales, 3 octaves: C and D Major; 2 octaves: Eb Major and d melodic minor.

Bass:
Major scales, 2 octaves: E, F, G.

Percussion:
All percussion audition candidates must pick a solo of your choice on EITHER a mallet keyboard instrument, snare drum or timpani, showing your best abilities. Sight reading will also be given on that particular instrument.

In addition, each person is REQUIRED to perform on all of the following:

Snare Drum:
Rudimental Roll, Orchestral Roll, Flams, Paradiddles.

Mallet Instruments:
2 Octave Major Scales & Arpeggios: C, F, Bb, Eb, G, & D. Plus, Chromatic Scale, 2 Octaves.

Timpani:
Long Roll, ppp to fff. Interval tuning to 4ths, 5ths and 3rds.

2011 CSYO AUDITION REQUIREMENTS

WOODWINDS:

All major scales and arpeggios, minimum of two octaves. Required solo – no substitutions accepted; sight-reading. If you play and have access to a piccolo, English horn or bass clarinet you must also prepare a short selection of your choice for your audition. Please prepare the excerpt(s) listed for your instrument.

Flute:
Three octave chromatic scale from low C; Required solo: W. A. Mozart Concerto No. 1 in G Major, K. 313, for Flute and Piano, mvmt. I: mm. 31-149,mvmt. II: mm. 10-37; solo 1st flute excerpts from C. Debussy’s Prelude to “The Afternoon of a Faun”.
Click here for flute excerpt.

Oboe:
Chromatic scale from low C to high Eb (three ledger lines above staff); Required solo: Cimarosa Concerto for Oboe and Strings, mvmt. I: mm. 1-14, mvmt. II: entire movement, no repeats; opening oboe cadenza from Saint-Saëns’ Samson and Dalila Dance Bacchanale, Op. 47 and 1st oboe solo excerpts from Copland’s Saturday Night Waltz from “Rodeo”.
Click here for oboe excerpts.

Clarinet:
Chromatic scale from low E to high G (four ledger lines above staff); Required solo: Rose Etude #5 (mm. 1-27 and m. 45 to the end) and Rose Etude #9 (mm. 1-30, inclusive); 1st clarinet excerpts from Mussorgsky’s Night on the Bare Mountain.
Click here for clarinet excerpt.

Bassoon:
Three octave chromatic scale from low Bb; Required solo: J. E. Galliard Sonata #3 for Bassoon and Piano, mvmt. I (mm. 1-9 and 13-20), mvmt. II (mm. 1-28); 1st and 2nd bassoon excerpts from Bizet’s Carmen Suite #1, No. 4 Les dragons d’Alcala.
Click here for bassoon excerpt.

BRASS:

All instruments - all major scales, 2 octaves. Required solo -- no substitutions accepted; listed excerpt(s); sight reading.

Horn:
Chromatic scale low C to high Bb; Franz Strauss Concerto, Opus 8, 1st mvt.
Excerpt: Tchaikovsky Symphony #5, mvt 2 solo

Trumpet:
Chromatic scale low F# to high C; Haydn Trumpet Concerto 1st mvt.
Excerpt: Tchaikovsky Capriccio Italien

Trombone:
Chromatic scale low E to high Bb; Gailliard Sonata #5, 1st mvt.
Excerpt: Berlioz-Hungarian March

Tuba:
NC All-State Band 11/12 scale requirements (http://ncbandmasters.org/HonorsScales1208/NCBAHonorsScales.html)
Marcello arr. Little -Sonata in F, mvt. 4
Excerpt: Tchaikovsky Symphony #6, mvt. 3, Mussorgsky Night on Bald Mtn.

STRINGS:

All instruments: Sight reading.

Violin:
3 octave scales: G, A, Bb, D, and g melodic minor; Mozart Concert No. 3 (1st mvmt.) or Bach Concerto No. 1 in a minor or a piece of equivalent difficulty.

Viola:
3 octave scales: C, D, Eb; Hoffmeister Concerto (1st or 3rd mvmt.) or Telemann Concerto (2nd or 4th mvmt.) or any one movement from J.S. Bach Cello Suites for viola or a piece of equivalent difficulty.

Cello:
3 octave scales: C,F,Bb,Eb,G,D,A; the exposition of a standard concerto movement.

Bass:
2 octaves C major (into thumb position) and g harmonic minor. Solo choices (pick one):
Marcello - Sonata #2 in e minor/2nd movement
Vivaldi - Sonata #5 in e minor / 2nd movement
Simandl - Etude #17 from 30 Etudes

Harp:
All major scales and arpeggios; Tchaikovsky "Waltz of the Flowers" cadenza from Nutcracker and solo work of your choice.

PERCUSSION:

All percussion audition candidates must prepare the required snare and xylophone etudes as well as the excerpts for snare, xylophone and timpani.