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Suggested Audition Repertoire List for Interlochen Arts Camp

This is a list of suggested audition repertoire for select high school music summer programs at Interlochen Arts Camp:

Strings

  • Bruch – Concerto No. 1 in G Minor
  • Kreisler – Praeludium and Allegro
  • Mendelssohn – Concerto in E Minor
  • Mozart – Concertos No. 3, 4 or 5
  • Lalo – Symphonie Espagnole
  • Saint-Saëns – Introduction and Rondo capriccioso
  • J.C. Bach – Concerto (1st movement)
  • J.S. Bach – Unaccompanied Cello Suites
  • Bloch – Suite Hebraique
  • Handel – Concerto
  • Hoffmeister – Viola Concerto in D
  • Stamitz – Concerto
  • Walton – Concerto
  • Boccherini – Concerto in B-flat Major
  • Haydn – Concerto in C Major
  • Elgar – Concerto
  • Kabalevsky – Concerto No.1 (1st movement)
  • Lalo – Concerto
  • Saint-Saëns – Allegro Appassionato
  • Saint-Saëns – Concerto in A minor (1st movement)
  • Shostakovich – Concerto No.1 (1st movement)
  • Bottesini – Concerto No. 2 in B minor (or A)
  • Dittersdorf – Concerto in E major (or D)
  • Dragonetti – Concerto in A major (or G)
  • Koussevitzky – Concerto in F-sharp minor (or E)
  • Vanhal – Concerto in C major (or D)
  • Bach – unaccompanied Cello Suites (in any key)
  • Paganini – Moses Variations

Winds

  • Bach – Sonata in G minor or C Major
  • Chaminade – Concertino, Op. 107
  • Debussy – Syrinx
  • Faure – Fantasie, Op. 79
  • Griffes – Poem
  • Ibert – Concerto (1st movement)
  • Mozart – Concerto in G (1st movement)
  • Prokofiev – Sonata in D (1st or 3rd movement)
  • Telemann – Fantasies
  • Corelli-Barbarolli – Concerto
  • Cimarosa – Concerto in C minor
  • Haydn – Concerto in C Major
  • Martinu – Concerto
  • Mozart – Concerto in C Major
  • Paladilhe – Solo de concert
  • Vaughan Williams – Concerto
  • Cavallini – Adagio and Tarantella
  • Debussy – Premiere Rhapsody
  • Mozart – Concerto
  • Poulenc – Sonata (1st movement)
  • Schumann – Fantasy Piece No. 1, 2 or 3
  • K. Stamitz – Concerto No. 3
  • von Weber – Concertino/Concerto No. 1 or 2
  • Bozza – Aria
  • Creston – Sonata
  • Glazounov – Concerto
  • Maurice – Tableaux de Provence (2nd or 3rd movement)
  • Tull – Sarabande & Gigue
  • Milde – Concert Studies
  • Mozart – Concerto, K. 191
  • Osborne – Rhapsody
  • Telemann – Sonata in F minor
  • Vivaldi – Concerto in E minor or A minor
  • Weber – Concerto

Brass

  • Arutunian – Concerto
  • Enesco – Legend
  • Haydn – Concerto
  • Hindemith – Sonata
  • Hummel – Concerto
  • Tartini – Concerto in D
  • David – Concertino
  • Jacob – Concerto (1st movement)
  • Grondahl – Concerto (1st movement)
  • Guilmant – Morceau Symphonique
  • Beethoven – Sonata, Op. 17
  • Dukas – Villanelle
  • Hindemith – Sonata or Concerto
  • Jacob – Concerto (one movement)
  • Mozart – Concerto (one movement)
  • Saint-Saëns – Romance or Morceau de Concert (first two pages)
  • Strauss – Concerto No. 1 or 2 (1st movement)
  • Barat – Andante et Allegro
  • Guilmant – Morceau Symphonique
  • Horovitz – Concerto
  • Mozart – Bassoon Concerto, K. 191 (or a selection from the trombone list)
  • Haddad – Suite for Tuba
  • Hartley – Suite for Unaccompanied Tuba
  • Marcello – Sonata in F
  • Vaughan Williams – Concerto
  • Wilder – Suite No. 1 (Effie)

Percussion

Applicants should demonstrate skills on snare drum, timpani and keyboard percussion.

An etude or solo demonstrating time and rhythm as well as rolls, flams and multiple grace notes. Concert snare drum solos are suggested, but rudimental solos will be accepted. Suggestions for specific snare drum repertoire:

  • Anthony J. Cirone, Portraits in Rhythm
  • Mitchell Peters, Intermediate or Advanced Snare drum etudes
  • Keith Aleo, Advanced Etudes for Snare Drum
  • Jacques Delecluse, 12 Studies for Snare Drum

An etude or solo using 2, 3 or 4 drums, demonstrating tone quality, rhythm and tuning. Suggestions for specific repertoire:

  • Hochrainer etudes (vol 1, 2 or 3)
  • Vic Firth, The Solo Timpanist
  • Mitchell Peters, Fundamental Solos for Timpani
  • Raynor Carroll solos

A two or four mallet solo on xylophone, marimba or vibraphone demonstrating tone quality, accuracy and musicality. A variety of repertoire is acceptable and applicants should play what they are most comfortable with. Suggested repertoire: Bach, Musser, Abe, Burritt and Rosauro, Sammut.