Serious high school or non-music major college level players. Top players in youth orchestra and members of All-State band or orchestra. Taking regular lessons from a high-level professional teacher. Considering pursuing a music degree.
Etudes

  • Barboteau: Lectures/Exercises (21-40)
  • Kopprasch: 60 Etudes (No. 31-60)​​
  • Gallay: 2nd Horn Studies, op. 57
  • Kaucký: Short Studies
  • Maxime-Alphonse: Book 2
  • Schantl: 120 Melodic Pieces (91-120)

Solos with Piano/Orchestra
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Unaccompanied Solos


Orchestral Excerpts

  • Beethoven: Violin Concerto
  • Beethoven: Symphony No. 3​
  • Beethoven: Symphony No. 6
  • ​Brahms: Piano Concerto No. 1​
  • ​Brahms: Piano Concerto No. 2
  • Brahms: Serenade No. 1
  • Brahms: Symphony No. 2
  • Brahms: Symphony No. 4
  • Mendelssohn: A Midsummer Night's Dream, Nocturne
  • Mussorgsky/Ravel: Pictures at an Exhibition
  • Puccini: Tosca, Act III - Prelude
  • Rossini: Il barbiere di Siviglia, Overture
  • Rossini: Semiramide, Overture
  • Shostakovich: Symphony No. 1
  • Strauss: Vier letzte Lieder
  • Tchaikovsky: Symphony No. 5
  • Thomas: Mignon, Overture
  • Wagner: Siegfried Idyll

Objectives

  • Average 7 hours weekly practice/study​
  • Introduction to stopped horn
  • Multiple tonguing
  • Basic transposition in all standard keys
  • Attend live performances
  • Explore techniques for managing performance anxiety

Promotion

  • G2 to C5
  • Scales: Major, chromatic scales (2 octaves)
  • Lip Trills: Kopprasch
  • Rudimentary ability to read bass clef and transpose​
  • Mussorgsky/Ravel: Pictures at an Exhibition