Cello Audition Material

Undergraduate and Music Minor

• An Etude (choose one)
  • Popper, “High School of Cello Playing”
  • Grutzmacher, Book One (Nos. 1-12)
• A Sonata (choose one)
  • Breval, G major (1st mvt., Cassado ed.)
  • Francoeur, E major (1st and 2nd mvts., Schott ed.)
• Bach
  • Bach Prelude and any other movement from Suites 1, 2, or 3
• Concerto (choose one)
  • Lalo (D minor, 3rd mvt.)
  • Haydn (C major, 1st or 3rd mvt.)
  • Saint-Saens (entire concerto)
  • Elgar (1st and 2nd mvts.)
  • Dvorak (1st mvt.)
• Scales and arpeggios of choice