GUILDHALL ARTIST MASTERS (ADVANCED INSTRUMENTAL STUDIES PATHWAY)

AUDITION REQUIREMENTS FOR WIND, BRASS & PERCUSSION

Advanced Instrumental Studies

This specialism is intended for students showing a high level of ability and musicianship with the
potential for a career as a soloist or in chamber music. The expectation is that students who take this
pathway come with advanced instrumental ability and musical understanding and also have a broad
understanding of repertoire for their instrument.

All candidates for woodwind and brass auditions must prepare:

1) The set work (first movement only)
2) One own choice piece
3) The prescribed orchestral excerpts

An accompanist is provided (you must bring the piano parts with you to the audition).
Sight-reading may be asked of all candidates, including saxophone and recorder.
Saxophone, Recorder, and Timpani and percussion requirements are different from above, and are
indicated separately below.

SET WORKS
FLUTE TRUMPET
Mozart: Concerto in G Haydn: Concerto in Eb
OBOE (one piece, either the set work or own choice,
Mozart: Concerto in C must be played on the Bb trumpet)
CLARINET TENOR TROMBONE
Mozart: Concerto in A Gordon Jacob: Concerto
BASSOON BASS TROMBONE
Mozart: Concerto in Bb Lebedev: Concerto
HORN TUBA
Mozart: Concerto No.4 in Eb Major K.495 Vaughan Williams: Concerto

TIMPANI AND PERCUSSION

Candidates must play two own choice pieces demonstrating facility on keyboard percussion
(marimba or vibraphone) and either multi-percussion, snare drum or timpani.
Requests for particular instruments for multi-percussion set-ups must be emailed to
michal.rogalski@gsmd.ac.uk when you are offered an audition time, and no later than two weeks
before the audition date.

SAXOPHONE
Three contrasting pieces of your own choice.
The panel may hear selections from your pieces within your allocated audition time.
A pianist will be at your audition (including warm-up time).
Please notify Richard Benjafield at least ten days before your audition date if you are playing some
accompanied repertoire that may not be so commonly known, and supply a copy of the piano
accompaniment by email to richard.benjafield@gsmd.ac.uk
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Three contrasting pieces appropriate to your instrument, including contemporary repertoire if you
wish. No orchestral excerpts are required.
Please notify us at least ten days before your audition date if you are playing some accompanied
repertoire that may not be so commonly known, and supply a copy of the accompaniment by email
to richard.benjafield@gsmd.ac.uk

ORCHESTRAL EXCERPTS
These can mostly be found in Orchester Probespiel (Edition Peters), but any commonly-used excerpt
book or standard edition of the orchestral part is acceptable.

FLUTE
Beethoven: Leonora Overture No. 3
Mahler: Symphony No. 9
Mendelssohn: A Midsummer Nights Dream (Scherzo)
Ravel: Daphnis and Chlo

OBOE
Brahms: Violin Concerto
Rossini: The Silken Ladder Overture
Ravel: Le Tombeau de Couperin
Tchaikovsky: Symphony No. 4 in F minor

CLARINET
Beethoven: Symphony No.6 in F major Pastoral
Brahms: Symphony No. 3 in F
Mendelssohn: A Midsummer Nights Dream (Scherzo)
Stravinsky: The Firebird Suite (1945) (Variation movement only)

BASSOON
Brahms: Violin Concerto (2nd Bassoon only)
Mozart: The Marriage of Figaro Overture
Shostakovich: Symphony No.9
Tchaikovsky: Symphony No.5 in E minor

HORN
Beethoven: Symphony No.9 in D minor (4th Horn)
Mahler: Symphony No.9
Strauss: Ein Heldenleben
Rossini: The Barber of Seville Overture

TRUMPET
Mahler: Symphony No.5 (1st movement)
Ravel: Piano Concerto in G
Strauss: Ein Heldenleben (Eb trumpet part)
Stravinsky: Petrouchka
TENOR TROMBONE
Mahler: Symphony No. 3 in D minor
Mozart: Requiem - Tuba Mirum
Wagner: Tannhuser overture
Rossini: William Tell Overture

BASS TROMBONE
Kodly: Hry Jnos
Rossini: William Tell Overture
Wagner: The Ride of the Valkyries (from Die Walkre)
Tchaikovsky: Symphony No. 5 in E minor

TUBA
Berlioz: King Lear
Mahler: Symphony No. 2 in C minor ("Resurrection")
Tchaikovsky: Symphony No.5 in E minor
Wagner: The Ride of the Valkyries (from Die Walkre)

TIMPANI AND PERCUSSION

Timpani
Beethoven: Symphony No. 9 in D minor
Stravinsky: The Rite of Spring

Tuned Percussion
Stravinsky: Petrouchka (1911) (xylophone)
Copland: Appalachian Spring (xylophone)
Gershwin: Porgy & Bess, opening passage (xylophone)
Dukas: Sorcerers Apprentice (glockenspiel)

Snare Drum
Rimsky-Korsakov: Scheherazade (movements 3 & 4)
Bartk: Concerto for Orchestra (second movement)
Prokofiev: Lieutenant Kij