Admissions

Oboe Audition Material (PD)

Performance Diploma

Although repertoire selection and performance in the audition bear great importance, final acceptance is based on the demonstration of talent, dedication, and the desire to achieve excellence rather than solely upon the level of proficiency already achieved.

Please contact Dr. Mieses if you intend to have an English horn focus.

Orchestral Focus

Choose one:

Haydn, Concerto in C
Martinu, Concerto
Mozart, Concerto in C
Strauss, Concerto
Navarro, Legacy Concerto

Choose the standard excerpts from EIGHT contrasting pieces below:

Barber, Symphony #1 or Violin Concerto
Bartok, Concerto for Orchestra
Beethoven, Symphony #3, or #6, or #9
Brahms, Symphony # 1 or Violin Concerto or Haydn, Variations
Debussy, La Mer
Ibert, Ports of Call
Mendelssohn, Symphony #3 “Scottish”
Mozart, Symphony 41
Prokofiev, Peter and the Wolf or Classical Symphony
Ravel, Tombeau de Couperin or Daphnis Suite #2
Rimsky-Korsakov, Scheherazade
Rossini, La Scale di Seta or Italiana in Algeria
Schubert, Symphony #9, The “Great” or “Unfinished Symphony”
Schumann, Symphony #2
Smetana, Bartered Bride Overture
Stravinsky, Pulcinella, Song of the Nightingale, or Symphony in C
Shostakovich, Symphony No. 1
Tchaikovsky, Symphony #4 or Swan Lake

Solo Performance Artist Focus

Choose one:

Francaix, Flower Clock Concerto
Haydn, Concerto in C
Hummel, Theme and Variations
Martinu, Concerto
Mozart, Concerto in C
Strauss, Concerto in C
Vaughan Williams, Concerto

Choose two contrasting works:

Bach, Sonata BWV 1020
Bach, Sonata BWV 1030b
Bozza, Fantasie Pastorale
Britten, Temporal Variations
Dutilleux, Sonata
Handel, Sonata in G minor
Hindemith, Sonata
Kalliwoda, Morceau du Salon
Pasculli, any work
Poulenc, Sonata
Saint-Saens, Sonata
Schumann, Romances
Shinohara, Obsession
Vivaldi, Sonata in C minor

Choose one unaccompanied work:

Bach, Partita BWV 1013
Britten, Six Metamorphoses after Ovid
CPE Bach, Sonata in A minor Wq. 132
Dorati, Cinq Pieces
Morris- Collision Etudes
Silvestrini, Six Etudes
Tomasi, Evocations

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