GUILDHALL ARTIST MASTERS (ADVANCED INSTRUMENTAL STUDIES PATHWAY)
AUDITION REQUIREMENTS FOR WIND, BRASS & PERCUSSION
Advanced Instrumental Studies
This specialism is intended for students showing a high level of ability and musicianship with the
potential for a career as a soloist or in chamber music. The expectation is that students who take this
pathway come with advanced instrumental ability and musical understanding and also have a broad
understanding of repertoire for their instrument.
All candidates for woodwind and brass auditions must prepare:
1) The set work (first movement only)
2) One own choice piece
3) The prescribed orchestral excerpts
An accompanist is provided (you must bring the piano parts with you to the audition).
Sight-reading may be asked of all candidates, including saxophone and recorder.
Saxophone, Recorder, and Timpani and percussion requirements are different from above, and are
indicated separately below.
SET WORKS
FLUTE
Mozart: Concerto in G
OBOE
Mozart: Concerto in C
CLARINET
Mozart: Concerto in A
BASSOON
Mozart: Concerto in Bb
HORN
Mozart: Concerto No.4 in Eb Major K.495
TRUMPET
Haydn: Concerto in Eb
(one piece, either the set work or own choice,
must be played on the Bb trumpet)
TENOR TROMBONE
Gordon Jacob: Concerto
BASS TROMBONE
Lebedev: Concerto
TUBA
Vaughan Williams: Concerto
TIMPANI AND PERCUSSION
Candidates must play two own choice pieces demonstrating facility on keyboard percussion
(marimba or vibraphone) and either multi-percussion, snare drum or timpani.
Requests for particular instruments for multi-percussion set-ups must be emailed to
[email protected] when you are offered an audition time, and no later than two weeks
before the audition date.
SAXOPHONE
Three contrasting pieces of your own choice.
The panel may hear selections from your pieces within your allocated audition time.
A pianist will be at your audition (including warm-up time).
Please notify Richard Benjafield at least ten days before your audition date if you are playing some
accompanied repertoire that may not be so commonly known, and supply a copy of the piano
accompaniment by email to [email protected]
RECORDER
Three contrasting pieces appropriate to your instrument, including contemporary repertoire if you
wish. No orchestral excerpts are required.
Please notify us at least ten days before your audition date if you are playing some accompanied
repertoire that may not be so commonly known, and supply a copy of the accompaniment by email
to [email protected]
ORCHESTRAL EXCERPTS
These can mostly be found in Orchester Probespiel (Edition Peters), but any commonly-used excerpt
book or standard edition of the orchestral part is acceptable.
FLUTE
Beethoven: Leonora Overture No. 3
Mahler: Symphony No. 9
Mendelssohn: A Midsummer Night’s Dream (Scherzo)
Ravel: Daphnis and Chloë
OBOE
Brahms: Violin Concerto
Rossini: The Silken Ladder Overture
Ravel: Le Tombeau de Couperin
Tchaikovsky: Symphony No. 4 in F minor
CLARINET
Beethoven: Symphony No.6 in F major “Pastoral”
Brahms: Symphony No. 3 in F
Mendelssohn: A Midsummer Night’s Dream (Scherzo)
Stravinsky: The Firebird Suite (1945) (Variation movement only)
BASSOON
Brahms: Violin Concerto (2nd Bassoon only)
Mozart: The Marriage of Figaro Overture
Shostakovich: Symphony No.9
Tchaikovsky: Symphony No.5 in E minor
HORN
Beethoven: Symphony No.9 in D minor (4th Horn)
Mahler: Symphony No.9
Strauss: Ein Heldenleben
Rossini: The Barber of Seville Overture
TRUMPET
Mahler: Symphony No.5 (1st movement)
Ravel: Piano Concerto in G
Strauss: Ein Heldenleben (Eb trumpet part)
Stravinsky: Petrouchka
TENOR TROMBONE
Mahler: Symphony No. 3 in D minor
Mozart: Requiem - Tuba Mirum
Wagner: Tannhäuser overture
Rossini: William Tell Overture
BASS TROMBONE
Kodåly: Háry János
Rossini: William Tell Overture
Wagner: The Ride of the Valkyries (from Die Walküre)
Tchaikovsky: Symphony No. 5 in E minor
TUBA
Berlioz: King Lear
Mahler: Symphony No. 2 in C minor ("Resurrection")
Tchaikovsky: Symphony No.5 in E minor
Wagner: The Ride of the Valkyries (from Die Walküre)
TIMPANI AND PERCUSSION
Timpani
Beethoven: Symphony No. 9 in D minor
Stravinsky: The Rite of Spring
Tuned Percussion
Stravinsky: Petrouchka (1911) (xylophone)
Copland: Appalachian Spring (xylophone)
Gershwin: Porgy & Bess, opening passage (xylophone)
Dukas: Sorcerer’s Apprentice (glockenspiel)
Snare Drum
Rimsky-Korsakov: Scheherazade (movements 3 & 4)
Bartók: Concerto for Orchestra (second movement)
Prokofiev: Lieutenant Kijé