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• Orchestral Training program auditions are by video submission of the requested material only.
• Applicants' recording should include all required audition excerpts in the order indicated.
• You can submit only ONE video file.
• The audition must be uploaded as one video, but the excerpts may be recorded separately and pasted together into one continuous video segment in the order listed.
• All pieces must be played without accompaniment.
• The video must contain NO verbal or text identifiers.
• Videos must be submitted as a public or unlisted YouTube link in the
• Former participants in the Fellows program may opt to apply without submitting a video for the current year. Your application will be considered based on prior participation.
• Submission deadline is midnight on March 1st, 2025 Eastern Standard Time

Those selected for the fellowship will be notified of their acceptance to the program by mid-April.

Audition Repertoire

Trumpet

• Charlier Etude #6 from 36 Transcendental Etudes: beginning to double bar in 10th line only
• Beethoven, Leonora Overture #2, off stage call
• Mussorgsky, Pictures at an Exhibition, Promenade (first 8 measures)
• Mahler, Symphony #5, opening thru 5th measure of reh. #1 and pickups to reh. #13 to reh. #14
• Stravinsky, Petrouchka (1947 version), Ballerina Dance
• Resphigi, Pines of Rome, Mvt. 2, offstage solo

Horn

• 1st Movement exposition from any Mozart or Strauss Concerto
• Richard Strauss, Ein Heldenleben, Hn. 1, Beginning to reh. #2
• Mendelssohn, A Midsummer Night’s Dream, Nocturne, Hn. 1 solo
• Beethoven, Symphony #3, Mvt. 3, trio, Horn 2
• Shostakovitch, Symphony #5, Mvt. 1, 3rd measure of reh. # 17 to reh. #20
• Mendelssohn, Symphony #3, Mvt. 2, Horn 3, 4 measures before reh. {F} to 2 measures before reh. {G}

Trombone

• F. David Concertino, Mvt. 1 reh. {A} to one measure after reh. {C}
• Mozart, Tuba Mirum, Trombone 2 solo
• Rossini, La Gazza Ladra Overture, trombone 1, reh. {C} to 25 measures after reh. {C}, reh. {F} to 17 after reh. {F}, reh. {I} to 11 after reh. {I}
• Berlioz, Hungarian March, trombone 1, measures 89 to 114
• Wagner, Lohengrin, Introduction to Act III, trombone 1, reh. {B} to 18 measures after reh. {B}
• Ravel Bolero, Trombone 1 solo

Bass Trombone

• A. Lebedev (ed. Ostrander), Concerto in one mvt., beginning to "A Tempo" on page 2
• Wagner, Das Rheingold, trombone 4, last 15 measures (Valhalla Motive)
• Wagner, Ride of the Valkyries (Act 3, scene 1),  contrabass trombone (trombone 4), 4 measures after reh {10} to reh. {12}
• Haydn, Creation, #26, Trombone 3,  beginning to reh {C}
• Respighi, Fountains of Rome, trombone 3,  pick up to reh {11} to 2 measures after reh. {14}
• Rossini, Overture to William Tell, trombone 3,  reh. {C} to reh. {E}

Tuba

• Vaughan Williams, Tuba Concerto, Mvt. 1, page one (complete) and cadenza (complete)
• Wagner, Ride of the Valkyries, B major section
• Prokofiev, Symphony #5, Mvt. 1, reh. #3 to 7 measures after reh. #5
• Berlioz, Hungarian March, reh. #4 through 2 measures after reh. #5
• Berlioz, Symphonie Fantastique, Tuba I, Mvt. 4, reh. 56 through 6 measures after reh. #57