Students intending to play professionally and focused primarily on music study. Auditioning for summer music festivals, teaching privately and getting hired for gigs. 
Etudes

  • 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
  • F. Strauss: 17 Concert Etudes
  • Thevet: 50 Transposition Exercises

Solos with Piano/Orchestra


Unaccompanied Solos
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Chamber

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

  • Beethoven
  • Berlioz
  • Debussy
  • Dvorak
  • Mozart
  • Rossini
  • Saint-Saens
  • Wagner

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 C# 6
  • 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​​