Professionals are fully employed musicians and teachers. They are often members of a ROPA or ICSOM orchestra, tenure track university professor or top freelancer in a major city.
Etudes
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  • Barboteu: Etudes Classiques
  • Bozza: Graphismes
  • Hackleman: High Horn Etudes
  • Kaucky: Heroic Etudes
  • Neuling: 30 Etudes for Low Horn

  • Maxime-Alphonse: Book 5

Solos with Piano/Orchestra
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  • Förster: Concerto
  • Francaix: Divertimento​
  • Jacob: Concerto
  • Pauer: Concerto
  • Rossini: Prelude, Theme and Variations
  • Salonen: Hornmusic I
  • Schoeck: Concerto​​
  • Tomasi: Concerto
  • ​Turner: Concerto for Low Horn
  • Turner: Concerto, "Gothic"
  • Vivaldi: Concerto for 2 Horns​
  • Weber: Concertino

​Unaccompanied Solos
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  • Adler: Cantos IX
  • Messaien: Appel Interstellaire

Chamber
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  •  Harbison: Wind Quintet 
  • Haydn: Divertimento a Tre

Orchestral Parts/Excerpts​

  • Adams: The Chairman Dances
  • Adams: Short Ride in a Fast Machine
  • Bach: Mass in B Minor, Quoniam
  • Bach: Brandenburg Concerto No. 1
  • Handel: Ariodante
  • Handel: Giulio Cesare
  • Mahler: Symphony 6, 7, 9
  • Ravel: Daphnis et Chloé
  • Ravel: Piano Concerto in G
  • Rossini: Armida, Overture
  • Rossini: Le siège de Corinthe, Overture
  • Rossini: Il turco in Italia, Overture
  • Schoenberg: Chamber Symphony No. 1
  • Schumann: Symphony No. 3
  • Shostakovich: Symphony No. 11, 12
  • Strauss: Eine Alpensinfonie
  • Strauss: Ein Heldenleben
  • Stravinsky: Dumbarton Oaks
  • Stravinsky: Symphony of Psalms
  • Wagner: Die Meistersinger
  • Wagner: Siegfried
  • Zemlinsky: Die Seejungfrau


Objectives
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  • Average 14 hours of weekly practice/study
  • Proficient in all areas of technique
  • Regular public performance
  • Semi-professional status, AFM membership
  • Extensive knowledge of orchestral, solo and chamber repertoire
  • Display professionalism and ability to work collaboratively
  • Demonstrate ability to perform consistently and effectively manage anxiety

Promotion

  • D1 to E6
  • Scales: Major, Chromatic, Minor, Whole-Tone
  • Perform full recital program
  • Compete in Concerto Competition
  • Winner/Finalist ROPA orchestra
  • Advance ICSOM orchestra