REPERTOIRE

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Susan Slaughter Solo Competition
Marie Speziale Mock Orchestra Audition
Mock Band Audition

Thank you to our competition chairs for their hard work putting together these repertoire lists! 

IWBC Competition Co-Chairs – Ginger Turner & Wendy Matthews 

Susan Slaughter Solo Competition Chairs

Trumpet – Julia Bell & Nancy Taylor
Horn – Jennifer Sholtis & Monica Martinez
Tenor Trombone – Brittany Lasch
Bass Trombone – Colleen Callan
Euphonium – Amy Bliss
Tuba – Gretchen Renshaw James

Mock Audition Competition Chairs

Trumpet – Carrie Blosser
Horn – Nikki LaBonte
Trombone – Katie Thigpen & Katie Franke
Euphonium – Danielle VanTuinen
Tuba – Meredith Fuller

Susan Slaughter Solo Competition Repertoire

Each performer should choose one piece per section (one piece will be unaccompanied and one will be with piano). You may be asked to play a shorter portion of the piece for the preliminary round. If so, the cuts will not be given to you until the competition begins. For the final round, be prepared to play the entire piece from each section in your category.

Category 1 (23 and under)

Choose one piece per section (one piece will be unaccompanied and one will be with piano)

Category 1 (23 years of age and younger) Section A:

Category 1 (23 years of age and younger) Section B:

Choose one piece per section (one piece will be unaccompanied and one will be with piano)

Category 1 (23 and younger)

Section A

Section B

Choose one piece per section (one piece will be unaccompanied and one will be with piano)

Category 1 (23 and younger)

Section A (unaccompanied): 

  • Alonso Malik Pirio: The Lone Caller 
    purchase link: to purchase this piece, you need to email the composer at alonsopiriomusic@gmail.com
    -or- you can send a note via his contact page: https://www.alonsomalikpirio.com/
  • Malcolm Arnold: Fantasy
    purchase here

Section B:

Choose one piece per section (one piece will be unaccompanied and one will be with piano)

Bass Trombone Category 1 (23 Years of Age and Younger) 

Prepare one solo from each section:

Section A: (both choices have piano accompaniment)

  • Carolina Calvache – Encuentros
    Purchase from carolinacalvache.com (Download available immediately) 
  • Brandon Mirvil – Chrome Heart
    Purchase from csharpeeditionc.com (Download available immediately) 

Section B: (unaccompanied bass trombone)

  • Daniella Candillari –  Three Songs for Bass Trombone: Mvmt 1 & 2
    Purchase from danieladandillari.com (Download available immediately) 
  • Eric Culver, Suite for Unaccompanied Bass Trombone, Mvt 1: “Fantasia”
    Purchase from hickeys.com (No Download Available, ships in 3-4 days from Ithaca, NY)

Choose one piece per section (one piece will be unaccompanied and one will be with piano)

23 and under (Category 1)

Section A, Unaccompanied

  • Movere by Chris Dickey (Pinnacle Brass Publications)  
  • Waltz in F by Kevin Day (Self Published- available for download from www.kevindaymusic.com)  

Section B, Accompanied

  • Luminaries by Lucy Pankhurst (Prima Vista Music)  
  • Chagallian Scenes by Elizabeth Raum  (Cimarron Music) 

Choose one piece per section (one piece will be unaccompanied and one will be with piano)

Section A –  unaccompanied 

  1. Evan Zegiel: Climate Strike
  2. Elizabeth Raum: Sweet Dances

Section B –with piano

  1. Katahj Copley: Crossroads 
  2. Amparo Edo Biol: Foundations

Category 2 (24 and up)

Choose one piece per section (one piece will be unaccompanied and one will be with piano)

Category 2 (24 years of age and older) Section A:

Category 2 (24 years of age and older) Section B:

Choose one piece per section (one piece will be unaccompanied and one will be with piano)

Category 2 (24 and older)

Section A 

Section B

Choose one piece per section (one piece will be unaccompanied and one will be with piano)

Category 2 (24 years of age and older)

Section A (unaccompanied):

Section B:

Choose one piece per section (one piece will be unaccompanied and one will be with piano)

Section A: 

  • Amy Reibs-Mills Catharsis, Movement 1: “Memories”
    Purchase from subitomusic.com (No Download Available, ships in approx. 2 weeks from New Jersey)

Section B: (unaccompanied bass trombone)

  • Stacy Garrop – Stormy, Husky, Brawling
    Purchase from presser.com (Download available immediately) 
  • Frigyes Hidas – Meditation for Bass Trombone
    Purchase from jwpepper.com (No Download Available, ships in 3-4 days from Pennsylvania)

Choose one piece per section (one piece will be unaccompanied and one will be with piano)

24 and over (Category 2)

Section A Unaccompanied

  • A War in Wonderland, movement 3 by Yo Goto (C. Alan Publications)  
  • Rock Hopper by Gail Robertson (Cimarron Music)  

Section B Accompanied

  • Sonata for Euphonium and Piano movements 2 and 3, Etienne Crausaz (Editions BIM) 
  • Faustbuch by Elizabeth Raum, prepare movement 2 & another movement of your choice (Cimarron Music) 

Choose one piece per section (one piece will be unaccompanied and one will be with piano)

Section A – unaccompanied 

  1. Gail Robertson: Rock Hopper
  2. Jasmine Pigott: The Imposters

Section B – with piano

  1. Anna Segal: Incantation
  2. Andrea Clearfield: Hvati

Marie Speziale Mock Orchestra Audition COMPETITION Repertoire

*You will receive a link to a PDF of these excerpts when you register to compete.

Brahms – Academic Festival Overture – pickup to 15 after rehearsal C to 12 after rehearsal D –  Trumpet 1 in C

Flagello – Bravado – letter E to the end – Trumpet in Bb 1

Higdon – Concerto for Orchestra – Trumpet 1 in C

  • Mvt 1 – m. 216 to the end

Ravel – Piano Concerto in G – Trumpet 1 in C

  • Mvt. 1 – rehearsal 2 to rehearsal 3

Strauss – Till Eulenspiegels lustige Streiche – reh. 36 to 4 measures before rehearsal 38 – Trumpet 1 in F 

*All excerpts Horn 1 except when notated

Beethoven: Symphony No. 3 – Horn 2, III. Scherzo, mm. 167-211

Margaret Bonds: The “Montgomery Variations” (1964) – I. Decision, mm. 47-63

Lili Boulanger: Vieille prière bouddhique – Horn 2, mm. 1-18

Augusta Holmès: Irlande – mm. 125-136

Richard Strauss: Ein Heldenleben, Op. 40 – mm. 1-17

Marsalis, Blues Symphony, 2nd Mvt “Swimming in Sorrow” mm. 30 -36 & mm. 52-53 (cadenza)

Fanfare for the Uncommon Woman  by Joan Tower, mm. 52 – end

Mozart Requiem, Tuba Mirum

Mahler Symphony No. 5, Mvt 2 Reh # 24-25

Strauss Ein Heldenleben, Reh. 62 through 3 measures before reh. 66

Haydn, Creation – beginning to C

Respighi – Fountains of Rome, pick-up to m.11 to 8 measures after 15

Beach, Gaelic Symphony, Mvt 1:  7 after reh Q to 9 before the end

Schumann, Symphony No. 3 “Rhenish,” Mvt IV: beginning to 13 after Reh A

Kodaly, Hary Janos Suite, Mvt 4: 5 bars after reh 5 to 10 bars after reh 6

Higdon: Concerto 4-3, Mvt. 2, mm. 56 – 66

Marsalis: All Rise, Mvt 6, mm. 44 – 58

Prokofiev: Symphony No. 5, Mvt. 1, Rehearsal 3 – 6

Reveueltas: Sensemayá, Rehearsal 2 – 11

Wagner: Overture to Die Meistersinger, mm. 158 – 188

Military Band Mock Audition Competition REPERTOIRE

*You will receive a link to a PDF of these excerpts when you register to compete.

Adams: Governor’s Own March – all – Solo Bb Cornet

Day: Concerto for Wind Ensemble – Bb Trumpet 1

  • Mvt. I. mm. 28-40.
  • Mvt. II. mm. 169-175
  • Mvt. IV. mm. 410-430

Ives: Variations on “America” – Solo at O – Cornet 1

Shostakovich (trans. Hunsberger): Festive Overture – Pickup to rehearsal 6 to rehearsal 7 – Trumpet 4

Taps

All excerpts Horn 1
1. Kevin Day: Concerto for Wind Ensemble – I. Flow, mm. 13-39
2. Julie Giroux: La Mezquita de Cordoba – mm. 96-119
3. Julie Giroux: Under the Willow – mm. 1-17
4. Paul Hindemith: Symphony in B flat – II. Andantino grazioso, mm. 84-106
5. Arnold Schoenberg: Theme and Variations, Variation VI

Anthony Barfield, Red Sky (solo) – beginning to letter B

King, Barnum and Bailey’s Favorite, final strain with pickups 2nd time through to the end

Sousa, Hands Across the Sea

Holst Planets, Uranus reh 7-8

Saint-Saens, Symphony No. 3: First mvt., Q to three before R

  1. Sousa, Hands Across the Sea
  2. Lecuona (arr. Ascione) Malaguena m. 225-248
  3. Haydn, Creation – beginning to C
  4. Ives, Charles – Variations on America, Reh Q to the end

Colonial Song – Percy Grainger 8 before reh. 29 – 1 after reh. 44

Concerto for Wind Ensemble – Kevin Day: Mvt. I – Flow, mm. 9-39 & Mvmt. II – Riff, mm. 161-172

Symphony No. V – III. Wind in Eb – Julie Giroux, mm. 169 – 193

Kevin Day: Concerto for Wind Ensemble, Mvt. 2, mm. 165 – 180

Dorothy Gates: Hope for Wind Ensemble, Mvt. 2, mm. 136 – 146; mm. 163 – 169

Percy Grainger: Lincolnshire Posy, Mvt. 3 Rufford Park Poachers, Pickup to m. 51 – downbeat of m. 64; mm. 68 – 84, bottom octave

Gustav Holst: First Suite in Eb, Mvt. 1, Beg. – m. 9; 8 after Rehearsal B –downbeat of C, bottom octave

Ralph Vaughan Williams: Toccata Marziale, Beginning to 2 measures after 5, bottom octave

GINGER TURNER ENSEMBLE COMPETITION REPERTOIRE

Each ensemble will prepare a piece or multi-movement piece totaling 8-12 minutes in length.

The preliminary slot is 10 minutes. You should choose 8 minutes of music to perform in the preliminary round. The cuts will not be given to you. For the final round, be prepared to play entire piece.