Finals Competition Repertoire

Final Audition List

All finalists must be prepared to play the following repertoire. Please prepare the entire solo. Excerpts may be called from anywhere in the entire work unless otherwise noted. Any number of excerpts may be requested, in any order. Additionally, sight reading may be required.

Tenor Trombone Finals Repertoire

Tenor Trombone Final Round Repertoire Solo (accompanist provided):

-Ferdinand David Concertino, Op. 4


Orchestral Excerpts (all 1st Trombone Parts unless otherwise noted):

-Berlioz Hungarian March (2nd trombone) 
-Mahler Symphony no. 3 
-Mozart Requiem 
-Ravel Bolero 
-Schumann Symphony no. 3, Rhenish 
-Sibelius Symphony no. 7 
-Strauss Ein Heldenleben 
-Strauss Till Eulenspiegel’s Merry Pranks 
-Wagner Ride of the Valkyries 
-Wagner Tannhäuser Overture










Bass Trombone Finals Repertoire

Solo (accompanist provided):

- Ernst Sachse             Concerto in F Major

Orchestral Excerpts:

Beethoven Symphony No. 9

Franck Symphony in d minor

Haydn Creation

Ives Variations on America

Kodaly Hary Janos Suite

Schumann Symphony No. 3, "Rhenish"

Strauss Ein Heldenleben

Wagner Das Rheingold, scene II, Trombone 4 and final 15 bars of the opera, also Trombone 4

Wagner Ride of the Valkyries