Applicants will read an orchestral excerpt and demonstrate
familiarity with all major and minor scales and arpeggios. In
addition applicants will play: (1) one movement of a concerto
or sonata; (2) one étude by Kopprasch and one by Gallay;
and (3) the last movement of Brahms’s Symphony No. 1,
Mendelssohn’s “Nocturne” from A Midsummer Night’s Dream,
the second movement of Tchaikovsky’s Symphony No. 5,
R. Strauss’s Till Eulenspiegel, Ravel’s Pavane, the short call
from Wagner’s Siegfried’s Rheinfahrt, the first movement
of Beethoven’s Symphony No. 7, and the third movement