Audition Information
Membership in the VCU Symphonic Wind Ensemble and the VCU Symphony is determined by auditions that are open to all qualified students. These auditions take place the first week of each semester and are heard by the conductors and the appropriate applied music faculty.
The VCU Symphonic Wind Ensemble meets for 80-minute rehearsals three times per week, Monday, Wednesday, and Friday, 12:00 p.m. to 1:20 p.m. and typically performs twice each semester.
The VCU Symphony meets for 80-minute rehearsals three times per week, Monday, Wednesday, and Friday, 1:30 p.m. to 2:50 p.m. and typically performs twice a semester.
Remember to keep your schedule as open as possible to accommodate the ensemble you are assigned to play in. Students may not request to be in a specific ensemble.
Please see the lists below for excerpts and audition sign up times regarding Spring 2023 auditions for instrumentalists in both the Symphonic Winds and the VCU Symphony.
Specific Instrument Audition Excerpts
- Clarinet excerpts
- Mozart “Concerto in A Major”
- Franz Wilhelm Ferling, adapted by Cyrille Rose, “Etudes”
- Bassoon excerpts
- Ravel “Alborada del Gracioso”
- Dukas “The Sorcerer’s Apprentice”
- Horn excerpts
- Amy Beach “Symphony in E-Minor op. 32”
- Movement 2 – Beginning through the end of E
- Beethoven “Symphony no. 2”
- Largehtto (movement 2) – letter “G” through the end of “G”
- Bernstein “Overture to Candide”
- Rehearsal 122-201
- Amy Beach “Symphony in E-Minor op. 32”
- Saxophone excerpts
- Trumpet excerpts
- Shostakovich “Symphonie 1”
- Movement 1 – Rehearsal 25-27
- Movement 2 – Rehearsal 21-22
- Movement 3 – Rehearsal 20-21
- Shostakovich “Symphonie 1”
- Tenor Trombone excerpts
- Bruckner “Symphony No. 4”
- Robert Russell Bennett “Suite of Old American Dances”
- Bass Trombone excerpts
- Mozart “Requiem”
- Nielson “Flute Concerto”
- Euphonium excerpts
- Hector Berlioz “Roman Carnival Overture”
- Ron Nelson “Rocky Point Holiday”
- Tuba excerpts
- Mahler “Symphony no. VI”
- Movement IV – Rehearsal 140, stop 4th bar of rehearsal 141
- Rossini “La Gazza Ladra – Overture”
- Rehearsal F. through rehearsal Ff (handwritten note: excerpt crosses 2 pages)
- Wagner “Die Meistersinger – Overture”
- Start at the beginning and stop at rehearsal A (on downbeat)
- Wagner “Die Valkure – Ride of the Valkyries”
- Start at rehearsal 10, 4th bar and play through rehearsal 12 (on downbeat)
- Mahler “Symphony no. VI”
Specific Instrument Audition Time Sign-up (Auditions will take place Tuesday, January 17th)
If you have any additional questions regarding Symphony auditions, please contact Daniel Myssyk, by email dmyssyk@vcu.edu with the subject “Audition Information Request.”
If you have any additional questions regarding Symphonic Wind Ensemble auditions, please contact Duane Coston, by email costonpd@vcu.edu with the subject “Audition Information Request.”
Looking for information on our Concerto and Aria Competition? Competition rules and guidelines can be found here!