Audition Requirements + Music
Audition Materials
Wind Ensemble & Concert Band
Spring 2025 Wind Ensemble Auditions: Sunday, December 15, 2024
All instruments are required to prepare the following:
Major scales up to four flats and four sharps
A solo or etude of your choice (no longer than 2 minutes)
Students may play their All West audition music or a solo/etude of choiceSight reading (will be disclosed at the time of the audition)
Youth Symphony & Repertory Orchestra
Open spots are limited in the following sections: violin, viola, double bass, bassoon, horn)
All instruments are required to prepare the following:
All 12 Major Scales and one melodic minor scale of your choice
(as many octaves as you can comfortably play)Solo of your choice (no longer than 2 minutes)
Audition excerpts for your instrument:
Strings: Violin, Viola, Cello, Double Bass
Woodwinds: Flute, Oboe, Clarinet, Bassoon
Brass & Percussion: Trumpet, Horn, Trombone, Bass Trombone, Tuba, Percussion
Sight reading (will be disclosed at the time of the audition)
String Orchestra
All instruments are required to prepare the following:
Scales: Two 3-octave scales of your choice (in keys that represent your current capabilities),
played at quarter note = 60, two quarter notes slurred in a bow, forte, using the whole bow and demonstrating your best vibratoSolo: Please prepare a 60 second solo of your choice that shows your current level of advancement
Audition excerpts are selections from Ode to the Plains and Glorious Plumage
Excerpts must be performed with metronome. You may choose the tempo.Sight reading (will be disclosed at the time of the audition)
Intermezzo Orchestra
All instruments are required to prepare the following:
C, G, D, F, and B-flat Major Scales
Audition excerpts for your instrument:
Sight reading (will be disclosed at the time of the audition)
Prelude Strings
All instruments are required to prepare the following:
G and D Major Scales
Audition excerpts for your instrument:
Sight reading (will be disclosed at the time of the audition)