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 Fall 2022 auditions for instrumentalists in both the Symphonic Winds and the VCU Symphony.
Specific Instrument Audition Excerpts
- Flute excerpts
- Shostakovich “Symphony 1”
- Movement 1 – Rehearsal 11 4 bar solo, rehearsal 13 4 bar solo, rehearsal 32 9 bar solo
- Bonis “Cleopatra”
- Piu Lento 8th=132, top line only 5 measures
- Shostakovich “Symphony 1”
- Oboe excerpts
- Clarinet excerpts
- Shostakovich “Symphony No 1”
- Movement 1 – Rehearsal 8-9 and 14-17
- Movement 2 – Rehearsal 1
- Shostakovich “Symphony No 1”
- Bassoon excerpts
- 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
- Grainger “The Gum-Suckers March”
- Schoenberg “Theme and Variations”
- Variation 3 and Finale
- 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
- Saint-Saëns “3rd Symphony”
- Respighi “Pines of Rome”
- Berlioz “Hungarian March”
- Bass Trombone excerpts
- Respighi “Pines of Rome”
- Respighi “Pines of the Appian Way”
- 4 measures before 21 until 3rd measure of 21
- 4 measures before 22 until 6 measures after 22
- Wagner “Entry of the Gods from Rheingold” – excerpt is in bracket
- Euphonium excerpts
- “When Jesus Wept”
- “Commando March”
- “Hands Across the Sea”
- Tuba excerpts
- Shostakovich “Symphony #1”
- Movement 1 – Rehearsal 24 through downbeat of Rehearsal 29
- Movement 3 – Rehearsal 5 through downbeat of Rehearsal 8
- Strauss “Ein Heldenleben”
- Rehearsal 62 through measure two of Rehearsal 65
- Tchaikovsky “Symphony No. V”
- Movement IV – Begin 9 measures after Rehearsal A and stop 6 measures before Rehearsal B
- Shostakovich “Symphony #1”
- Percussion excerpts
- Snare Drum
- Shostakovich “Symphony no. 10”
- Movement 2 – 98 to the end
- Shostakovich “Symphony no. 10”
- Xylophone
- “Colas Bruegnon”
- Bracketed excerpts
- “Colas Bruegnon”
- Tambourine
- Petrushka
- Rehearsal 201-207
- Petrushka
- Timpani
- Shostakovich “Symphony 1”
- Movement IV – Rehearsal 35-27
- Shostakovich “Symphony 1”
- Snare Drum
Specific Instrument Audition Time Sign-up
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.”
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