It’s that time of year again! This year we will be requesting recorded excerpts, as we did last year. Please use Walfrid Kujala’s book Orchestral Techniques for Flute and Piccolo: an Audition Guide in your preparation.

Detailed instructions for recording your audition will be outlined on the UVic School of Music website so keep a close eye on the website. This list is simply to get you started! Please note: IF you do not yet own a piccolo, you may simply omit the piccolo excerpt.

The excerpts for fall 2021 are:

1. Mozart concerto in D major. 1st Movement exposition only. Please use whichever edition you prefer. This should be performed solo, i.e., without a collaborative pianist.
2. Beethoven Leonore overture #3, primary solo from measure 328 to measure 360. See Kujala p. 13.
3. Brahms Symphony No. 4, fourth movement major solo from measure 89 to measure 105 ( in Kujala see page 30).
4. Mendelssohn Midsummer Nights Dream main solo from measure 338 to the end (in Kujala see page 39).
5. Piccolo excerpt: Dvorak Slavonic dances Op. 46 #2. Begin at Piu Mosso (seventeen bars into Tempo I) where the sixteenth notes begin, and play until the Quasi Andante. There are 7 bars of rest within this excerpt. Please simply pause for a moment and then continue (no need to count these bars ) This excerpt can be viewed on IMSLP here: https://imslp.simssa.ca/files/imglnks/usimg/e/e2/IMSLP42628-PMLP04972-Dvorak-Op046v1.Piccolo.pdf