Undergraduate and Music Minor

• Two solos or etudes of contrasting styles, of your choice, comparable to the below:
  • Kent Kennan Trumpet Sonata MVT 1
  • Arutunian Trumpet Concerto
  • Haydn Trumpet Concerto
  • Hummel Trumpet Concerto
  • Enescu's Legende
  • Charlier etudes
  • Brandt Etudes
  • Arban Characteristic studies
• Three to five orchestral or band excerpts
• Major and minor scales
• Sight reading ability and aural skills will be tested during the audition

Master of Music

• All applicants must prepare the two specific works below:
  • Haydn Trumpet Concerto MVT 1 with Cadenza
  • Charlier etude No 6
    • beginning-bar 35 (double bar with fermata)
• Two additional solos or etudes of contrasting styles, of your choice, comparable to the below:
  • Tomasi Trumpet concerto
  • Chaynes Trumpet Concerto
  • Fasch Trumpet Concerto
  • Hummel Trumpet Concerto
  • Bitsch Etudes
  • Charlier Etudes
• Three to five orchestral or band excerpts
• Major and minor scales
• Sight reading ability and aural skills will be tested during the audition

Doctor of Musical Arts, and Performance Diploma

• Candidate is to present a brief, 30-60 second lecture of each work performed
• All applicants must prepare the two specific works below:
  • Tomasi Trumpet concerto
    • beginning to Reh 11
  • Charlier Etude No 6
• One movement of a piccolo solo of your choice.
• Two additional solos or etudes of contrasting styles, of your choice, comparable to the below:
  • Tomasi Trumpet concerto
  • Chaynes Trumpet Concerto
  • Fasch Trumpet Concerto
  • Hummel Trumpet Concerto
  • Bitsch Etudes
  • Charlier Etudes
• Three to five orchestral or band excerpts
• Major and minor scales
• Sight reading ability and aural skills will be tested during the audition
• Click here for general information about the DMA audition format.