Virtuosos are performers with the highest standards of technique and musicality. They perform professionally as soloists, chamber musicians and are often principals in major orchestras or professors at a high level conservatory.
Etudes
Solos with Piano/Orchestra
Unaccompanied Solos
Chamber
Orchestral Parts/Excerpts
Objectives
Promotion
- Maxime-Alphonse: Book 6
- Reynolds: 48 Etudes
Solos with Piano/Orchestra
- Knussen: Concerto
- Ligeti: Hamburg Concerto
- L. Mozart: Concerto in D
- Schumann: Konzertstück for 4 Horns
- Williams: Horn Concerto
- Zelenka: Capriccios 1-5
Unaccompanied Solos
- Davies: Sea Eagle
- Salonen: Concert Etude
- Widmann: Air
Chamber
- Ligeti: Trio for Violin Horn and Piano
- Schoenberg: Wind Quintet
- Tippett: Sonata for Four Horns
Orchestral Parts/Excerpts
- Adams: City Noir
- Adams: Harmonielehre
- Bach: Cantatas BWV 1, 14, 65, 79, 128, 205, 208
- Bach: Christmas Oratorio
- Handel: Judas Maccabeus
- Haydn: Symphony No. 31, 48 and 51
- Berg: Lulu
- Berg: Wozzeck
- Rameau: Les Boreades
- Schoenberg: Gurrelieder
- Schoenberg: Pelleas und Melisande
- Schoenberg: Fünf Orchesterstücke
- Strauss: Symphonia Domestica
Objectives
- C1 to F6
- Mastery of technique
- Consistent peak performance skills
- Knowledge and execution of all musical styles
- Musically compelling approach/risk-taking
- Multiphonics and other extended techniques
- Mastery of intonation and ensemble skills
- Complete dynamic range in all registers
- Highest professional standard of performance
Promotion
- Winner/Finalist ICSOM orchestra
- Compete in major solo competition