Audition Requirements
Union Symphony Youth Orchestra (Ages 13–21)
Please make sure to announce which scale you will be playing prior to playing it.
- Strings
- Scales and arpeggios – slurred 4 per bow scales and 3 per bow arpeggios
- Violin
- A Major 3 octaves scales and arpeggio
- Melodic minor 2 octaves scale and arpeggio of student’s choice
- (slurred 4 for the scales and 3 for the arpeggio)
- Viola
- C Major 3 octaves scales and arpeggio
- Melodic minor 2 octaves scale and arpeggio of student’s choice
- (slurred 4 for the scales and 3 for the arpeggio)
- Cello
- C Major 3 octaves scales and arpeggio
- Melodic minor 2 octaves scale and arpeggio of student’s choice
- (slurred 4 for the scales and 3 for the arpeggio)
- Bass
- F Major 2 octaves scale and arpeggio
- Melodic minor 2 octaves scale and arpeggio of student’s choice
- Prescribed selections
- Violin
- Vivaldi – Violin Concerto in A Minor, Op. 3, No. 6: movements 1 or 3
- Handel – Violin Sonata in F Major: movement 1
- Mozart – Violin Sonata in E Minor: movement 1
- Or piece of equivalent or greater difficulty
- Viola
- Telemann – Viola Concerto in G Major: movement 4
- Marcello – Sonata in E Minor: movement 2
- Bach – Cello Suite No. 1 in G Major: Courante
- Or piece of equivalent or greater difficulty
- Cello
- Bach – Cello Suite No. 1 in G Major: Courante
- Breval – Sonata in C Major: movement 1
- Grieg – Cello Sonata in A Minor: movement 1
- Or piece of equivalent or greater difficulty
- Bass
- Bach – Gavotte
- Marcello – Sonata in E Minor: movement 2
- Vivaldi – Sonata No.5 in E Minor: movement 2
- Or piece of equivalent or greater difficulty
- Harp
- Tchaikovsky Nutcracker Waltz of the Flowers Cadenza
- Berlioz Symphonie Fantastique Mvt 2 beginning to Rehearsal 23
- Solo Piece of Choice
- Violin
- Violin
- Scales and arpeggios – slurred 4 per bow scales and 3 per bow arpeggios
- Woodwinds, Brass and Percussion
- Scales
- Flute – Bb Major (2 Oct), C Major (3 Oct), A Major (2 Oct) – Chromatic C-Ab (2 plus Oct)
- Oboe – C Major (2 Oct), Eb Major (2 Oct), G Major (1 Oct) – Chromatic C-Eb (2 plus Oct)
- Clarinet – D Major (2 Oct), C Major (2 Oct), F Major (3 Oct) – Chromatic E – F (3 plus Oct)
- Bass Clarinet – D Major (2 Oct), C Major (2 Oct), F Major (2 Oct) – Chromatic E – C (2 plus Oct)
- Bassoon – Bb Major (2 Oct), D Major (2 Oct,) E Major (2 Oct) – Chromatic A# – F (2 plus Oct)
- Horn – G Major (2 Oct), A Major (2 Oct), Eb Major (2 Oct) – Chromatic – F – G (2 plus Oct)
- Trumpet – C Major (2 Oct), Bb Major (2 Oct), A Major (2 Oct) – Chromatic – G – Bb (2 plus Oct)
- Trombone – G Major (2 Oct), F Major (2 Oct), Bb Major (2 Oct) – Chromatic – F – Ab (2 plus Oct)
- Woodwinds, Brass and Percussion Solo Requirements
- Scales
Prelude Junior String Orchestra
- String
- Perform all scales and arpeggios from memory.
- The tonic may be repeated in each octave.
- Perform scales as sixteenth notes at a minimum tempo of quarter note = 50.
- Perform arpeggios the same number of octaves as the corresponding scales, eighth note triplets at a minimum tempo of quarter note = 50.
- Violin
- D Major 2 octaves scales and arpeggio
- Melodic minor of the student’s choice 1 octave
- (slurred 4 for the scales and 3 for the arpeggio)
- Viola, Cello
- C Major 2 octaves
- Melodic minor of the student’s choice 1 octave
- (slurred 4 for the scales and 3 for the arpeggio)
- Bass
- F Major 1 octave
- Melodic minor of the student’s choice 1 octave.
- Violin
- ALL INSTRUMENTS
- Play a solo of your choice showing your abilities and range. Please state your selection in the video. (ex. Suzuki Book II, III, or IV)