The School of Music provides a piano accompanist for string auditions in Boston. Candidates must bring the piano score to the audition.
The applicant should be prepared to perform solo works and études or studies written expressly for the instrument. The applicant should be prepared to play passages from the orchestral repertoire as well as all scales and arpeggios that demonstrate musical and technical command of the instrument. Applicants should be prepared also to sight-read literature appropriate to their instrument. Auditions are usually performed without accompaniment.
Applicants should prepare one fast etude and one slow etude of his or her choice from Rose: 32 Etudes for Clarinet.
Below are examples of the orchestral excerpts appropriate for an audition. Where the requirements allow substitutions, you should consider works that demonstrate cantilena style (slow tempo, legato melodic lines, sustained phrasing, singing tone quality) and technical facility (fast tempo, variety in rhythm, correct phrasing, tone quality, clean articulation, etc.):
Don Quixote by Strauss; Till Eulenspiegel by Strauss; Daphnis et Chloe (suite 2) by Ravel; Die Gotterdammerung by Wagner; Siegfried's Rhine Journey by Wagner.
Applicants in bass clarinet should prepare material equivalent to a Master's level recital program
String applicants should prepare material equivalent to a master's level recital program.