Postgraduates are recent college graduates or master's degree candidates pursuing a professional career. They are often working at least part-time as a musician while taking orchestra auditions or applying for doctoral programs.
Etudes

  • Barboteau: 20 Etudes Concertantes

  • Bitsch: 12 Studies
  • Falk: 20 Atonal Studies
  • Gallay: 12 Etudes Brilliantes op. 43
  • Hackleman: Low Horn Etudes
  • Maxime-Alphonse: Book 4
  • Rochut: Melodious Etudes, Book 2
  • Schuller: Studies for Unaccompanied Horn
  • Thevet: 50 Transposition Exercises
  • ​Weber: 13 Etudes

Solos with Piano/Orchestra

  • Atterberg: Concerto
  • Bowen: Sonata​
  • Brahms/Brubaker: Cello Sonata, Op. 38 (trans.)
  • Czerny: Andante e Pollaca
  • Damase: Sonata​​
  • Hindemith: Alto Horn Sonata
  • Kirchner: Tre Poemi -- 🎵
  • Koechlin: Sonata
  • Krufft: Horn Sonata
  • Madsen: Horn Sonata
  • ​Musgrave: Music for Horn and Piano​
  • Pilss: Tre Pezzi in Forma di Sonata​
  • Reynolds: Partita
  • Rosetti: Concerto in D Minor
  • ​Schumann: Adagio and Allegro​​
  • Seiber: Notturno -- 🎵
  • F. Strauss: Theme and Variations
  • R. Strauss: Horn Concerto No. 2
  • Telemann: Horn Concerto
  • Tomasi: Horn Concerto
  • Vignery: Horn Sonata
  • Wilder: Horn Sonata No. 1 and 2

Unaccompanied Solos
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  • Bach: Cello Suites
  • Gallay: 12 Grand Caprices
, Op. 32
  • Hill: Jazz Soliloquies -- 🎵

Chamber

  • Britten: Serenade
  • Hindemith: Sonata for Four Horns

Orchestral Parts/Excerpts​

  • Handel: Water Music
  • Handel: Music for the Royal Fireworks
  • Beethoven: Fidelio, Act I - Aria, “Abscheulicher”
  • Britten: Billy Budd
  • Beethoven: Symphony No. 2, 7
  • Berlioz: Roméo et Juliette, Queen Mab Scherzo
  • Bernstein: On the Waterfront, Symphonic Suite
  • Brahms/Schoenberg: Piano Quartet
  • Bruckner: Symphony No. 5, 6, 7, 8 and 9
  • Dvorak: Symphony No. 9
  • Franck: Symphony in D minor
  • Ginastera: Variaciones concertantes
  • Hindemith: Konzertmusik für Streichorchester und Blechbläser
  • Hindemith: Mathis der Maler, Symphony
  • Hindemith: Symphonic Metamorphosis on themes of Weber
  • Janacek: Sinfonietta
  • Mahler: Symphony No. 3, 4, 5
  • Messiaen: Turangalîla-symphonie
  • Mozart: Symphony No. 25 and 29
  • Rachmaninov: Symphony No. 2
  • Respighi: Pini di Roma
  • Respighi: Feste Romane
  • Respighi: Fontane di Roma
  • Ravel: Alborada del gracioso 
  • Sibelius: Symphony 1, 2 and 5
  • Strauss: Der Bürger als Edelmann
  • Strauss: Der Rosenkavalier
  • Strauss: Don Quixote
  • Stravinsky: Petrouchka
  • Stravinsky: Le Sacre du printemps
  • Wagner: Götterdämmerung
  • Wagner: Lohengrin
  • Williams: Adventures on Earth from E.T.

Objectives

  • Average 12 hours of weekly practice/study
  • Develop original warm up routine
  • Transposition in all keys
  • Complete knowledge of just intonation
  • Musical refinement and technique approaching professional levels
  • Compete in a professional orchestra audition
  • Perform a full recital program
  • Understanding of different musical periods and styles and ability
  • Ability to clearly articulate and teach learned concepts
  • Mastery of mindfulness and mental toughness techniques
  • Participate in a major summer music festival

Promotion

  • E1 to D6
  • Scales: Mastery/memorization of all scales and arpeggios, 2 octaves
  • Perform half recital program
  • Advance in a ROPA orchestra audition
  • Sublist ICSOM orchestra