Wednesday, June 26th, will be Mock Orchestral Audition Day. Göran Marcusson will teach the orchestral excerpts in the morning session as usual, using the excerpts listed below. Students who wish to participate in this class should have all ten excerpts prepared and each person will pick which excerpt they are to be coached on from a hat the day before. Each person will get a ten to fifteen minute session on their excerpt and the class is open to being audited.
The actual mock auditions will be held after lunch, which will only be for the participants and no outside onlookers. These mock auditions will emulate a real audition as much as possible, being behind a screen and playing as a number. When not auditioning, the participant will be on the panel listening to the others in order to gain understanding of how the process really works. At the end of these sessions each participant will have a greater understanding of how to prepare for an audition. The participants will not be competing against each other, but to professional standards.
Mock Audition Pieces to Prepare:
W. Mozart: Flute Concerto in G or D, 1st mvt exposition
J.S. Bach: St. Matthew Passion, “Aus Liebe”
L. Beethoven: Symphony No. 3, mvt 4, bars 169-200
J. Brahms: Symphony No. 4, mvt 4
C. Debussy: Prélude à l'après-midi d'un faune
A. Dvorak: Symphony No.8, mvt 4
G. Bizet: L'Arlesienne Suite No. 2, Menuet
S. Prokofiev: Peter and the Wolf
G. Rossini: William Tell Overture
M. Ravel: Daphnis et Chloe solo Tres Lent
C. Saint-Saëns: Carnival of the Animals, “Voliere"
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