Students hoping to play professionally and focused primarily on musical study. Earning a music performance degree at a high level music program. Auditioning for summer music festivals, teaching privately and beginning to play professionally as a freelancer
Etudes
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  • Barboteau: Lectures/Exercises (61-80)
  • Chaynes: 15 Etudes
  • Gallay: 12 Low Horn Etudes, op. 57

  • Gallay: 40 Preludes, op. 27

  • Gugel: 12 Etudes
  • Koetsier: 13 Characteristic Etudes
  • Maxime-Alphonse: Book 4
  • Rochut: Melodious Etudes, Book 2
  • Schantl: Method for Natural Horn
  • F. Strauss: 17 Concert Etudes
  • Thevet: 50 Transposition Exercises

Solos with Piano/Orchestra


Unaccompanied Solos
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Chamber

  • Beethoven: Sextet​
  • Dohnanyi: Sextet
  • ​Mozart: Horn Quintet
  • Poulenc: Sextet
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Orchestral Excerpts

  • Barber: Violin Concerto
  • Bartok: Concerto for Orchestra
  • Berlioz: Symphonie Fantastique
  • Bernstein: West Side Story, Symphonic Dances
  • Brahms: Academic Festival Overture
  • Brahms: Tragic Overture
  • Bruckner: Symphony No. 7
  • Copland: Appalachian Spring, Suite
  • Haydn: Symphony No. 55
  • Kodály: Dances of Galanta
  • Kodály: Háry János, Suite
  • Mahler: Symphony No. 3
  • Mahler: Symphony No. 4
  • Mahler: Symphony No. 5
  • Mozart: Cosi fan tutte
  • Mozart: Le nozze di Figaro​
  • Mendelssohn: Symphony No. 3
  • Prokofiev: Romeo and Juliet
  • Puccini: Turandot
  • Rachmaninov: Symphonic Dances
  • Ravel: Bolero
  • Ravel: Pavane pour une infante défunte 
  • Rimsky-Korsakov: Capriccio Espagnol
  • Rimsky-Korsakov: Scheherazade
  • Rossini: La gazza ladra, Overture
  • Rossini: L'italiana in Algeri, Overture 
  • Schumann: Symphony No. 3
  • Shostakovich: Symphony No. 5
  • Strauss: Also Sprach Zarathustra
  • Strauss: Salome
  • Strauss: Till Eulenspiegels lustige Streiche
  • Stravinsky: Pulcinella
  • Stravinsky: Le Baiser de la fée
  • Verdi: Falstaff
  • Weber: Der Freischütz, Overture

Objectives

  • Average 10 hours of weekly practice/study
  • Transposition in all keys
  • Memorize a standard concerto
  • Compete in a solo competition
  • Familiarity with all standard excerpts
  • Audition for a major summer music festival
  • Proficient at sight-reading with transposition
  • Daily mindfulness and mental focus work
  • Recover quickly from mistakes/disappointing performances
  • Fluency with lip trills, hand stopping, multiple tonguing, flutter tonguing
  • Regular recording and analysis

Promotion

  • F1 to D6
  • Scales: Major, Chromatic, Natural Minor (2 octaves)
  • Compose original cadenza for a Mozart Concerto​​
  • Perform a half-recital program
  • Mock audition with standard excerpts
  • Sublist ROPA orchestra​​