Program Requirements

Master of Music: Horn

Prescreening required; must be video format. All repertoire must be recorded in the same room to maintain a consistent acoustic environment across requirements, but repertoire can be uploaded in separate video files. 

Prescreening and audition unaccompanied.

Fall 2025 Audition Dates:

February 7-8, 13-14

For Prescreening:

Solo Repertoire: 

  • One solo movement of a sonata demonstrating style, tone, range, rhythm, and technique
  • Exposition section from any Mozart concerto
  • Exposition section from any Strauss concerto

  • One étude from Maxime Alphonse Book No. 5

Required Orchestral Excerpts:

  • Beethoven, Symphony No. 9 (fourth horn solo)

  • Brahms, Symphony No. 2 or Symphony No. 3

  • Strauss, Ein Heldenleben, opening call

For Final Audition:

  • Schumann Adagio and Allegro, Op.70 (first page)
  • Strauss Concerto Nos. 1 OR 2 (exposition section of the applicant's choice)
  • First-movement exposition section from any Mozart concerto

Required Orchestral Excerpts:

  • Beethoven, Symphony No. 9 (fourth horn solo)

  • Brahms, Symphony No. 2 or Symphony No. 3

  • Shostakovich, Symphony No. 5, low tutti section, 1st movement

  • Wagner, Götterdämmerung, short call

  • Strauss, Ein Heldenleben, opening call

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