Conservatory students intend to play professionally and are focused primarily on music study. These students are auditioning for summer music festivals, teaching privately and playing gigs regularly.
Etudes
Solos with Piano/Orchestra
Unaccompanied Solos
Chamber
Orchestral Excerpts
Objectives
Promotion
- 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
- Abbott: Alla Caccia -- 🎵
- Bowen: Horn Sonata -- 🎵
- Bozza: En Foret -- 🎵
- Bozza: Sur les Cimes -- 🎵
- Busser: Le Chasse de St. Hubert -- 🎵
- Defaye: Alpha -- 🎵
- Dukas: Villanelle -- 🎵
- Haydn: Horn Concerto No. 1 -- 🎵
- Heiden: Horn Sonata -- 🎵
- Hindemith: Horn Concerto -- 🎵
- Krufft: Horn Sonata -- 🎵
- Nehlybel: Scherzo Concertino -- 🎵
- Neuling: Bagatelle -- 🎵
- Poulenc: Elegy -- 🎵
- Reynolds: Partita -- 🎵
- Schumann/Machala: Fantasiestücke (trans.) -- 🎵
- Wilder: Suite -- 🎵
Unaccompanied Solos
- Berge: Horn Lokk -- 🎵
- Hill: Jazz Soliloquies -- 🎵
- Plagge: Monoceros -- 🎵
- Raum: Confessions of St. Augustine -- 🎵
Chamber
- Beethoven: Sextet
- Dohnanyi: Sextet
- Mozart: Horn Quintet
- Poulenc: Sextet
Orchestral Excerpts
- Barber: Violin Concerto
- Bartok: Concerto for Orchestra
- Beethoven: Symphony No. 6 and 9
- Berlioz: Symphonie Fantastique
- Bernstein: West Side Story, Symphonic Dances
- Brahms: Academic Festival Overture
- Brahms: Symphony No. 2 and 4
- Brahms: Tragic Overture
- Copland: Appalachian Spring, Suite
- Debussy: L'Après-midi d'un faune
- Debussy: La Mer
- Haydn: Symphony No. 55
- Bruckner: Symphony No. 4
- Kodály: Dances of Galanta
- Kodály: Háry János, Suite
- Mahler: Symphony No. 1
- Mozart: Cosi fan tutte
- Mozart: Le nozze di Figaro
- Mozart: Symphony No. 40
- 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
- Shostakovich: Symphony No. 5
- Strauss: Salome
- Strauss: Till Eulenspiegels lustige Streiche
- Stravinsky: Pulcinella
- Stravinsky: Le Baiser de la fée
- Verdi: Falstaff
- Weber: Der Freischütz, Overture and Hunter’s Chorus
- Williams: The Cowboys, Overture
- Williams: Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone, Suite
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