FOOSA AUDITION and VIDEO REQUIRMENTS

Philharmonic

Symphony

Chamber (Half-Day)

FOOSA Video Requirements

For the PHILHARMONIC, you will need to record a video (or multiple videos) in which you perform whatever is listed below as required for your instrument.

For the SYMPHONY, you will need to record a scale of your choice showing the range of your instrument and two contrasting pieces (no longer than 2-3 minutes each). Movements or sections of longer works are accepted. The excerpts below are for the Philharmonic auditions only.

For the CHAMBER (Half-day), you will need to record a scale of your choice and one piece that best demonstrates your ability level. The piece should be no longer than 2-3 minutes.

No professional videography is needed. A video recorded with a smartphone or computer will be good enough. Accompaniment is acceptable on solos but by no means required. More than one video is permitted. Acceptd offers several options for uploading video files. You are also permitted to send YouTube links.

Feel free to email us at cmarchese@yoofresno.org with any questions.

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FOOSA Philharmonic Audition Requirements

  • VIOLIN AUDITIONS

    For FOOSA 2026, violin applicants should include in their audition videos the following:

    Solo: One solo work or one movement from a Concerto or a Sonata (with or without piano) of the participant’s choice that best demonstrates the level of their playing.

    Required excerpts: Click Here for Violin Audition Repertoire

  • VIOLA AUDITIONS

    For FOOSA 2026, viola applicants should include in their audition videos the following:

    Solo: One solo work or one movement from a Concerto or a Sonata (with or without piano) of the participant’s choice that best demonstrates the level of their playing.

    Required excerpts: Click Here for Viola Audition Repertoire

  • CELLO AUDITIONS

    For FOOSA 2026, cello applicants should include in their audition videos the following:

    Solo: One solo work or one movement from a Concerto or a Sonata (with or without piano) of the participant’s choice that best demonstrates the level of their playing.

    Required excerpts: Click Here for Cello Audition Repertoire

  • BASS AUDITIONS

    For FOOSA 2026, double bass applicants should include in their audition videos the following:

    Solo: One solo work or one movement from a Concerto or a Sonata (with or without piano) of the participant’s choice that best demonstrates the level of their playing.

    Required excerpts: Click here the Bass Repertoire

    a. Beethoven: Symphony No. 5, movement 3 (mm. 1-18, mm. 53-100. Trio: beginning to letter B)

    b. Mozart: Symphony No. 40 movement 1, (pickup to measure 115-138, 191-225.), Movement 4, (mm. 33-54)

    c. Mahler: Symphony No. 1, movement 3 (mm. 3-10)

    d. Britten: Young Person’s Guide to The Orchestra (variation H)

Strings

  • FLUTE AUDITIONS

    For FOOSA 2026, flute applicants should include in their audition videos the following:

    1. One unaccompanied work or One movement from Concerto or Sonata (with or without piano).

    2. Excerpts (see the music provided below):

    a. Flute:

    I. Ravel: Daphnis et Chloe, Suite No. 2

    II. Beethoven: Overture “Leonore” No. 3

    b. Piccolo:

    I. Ippolitov-Ivanov: Caucasian Sketches, No. 4: Procession of the Sardar

    II. Tchaikovsky: Symphony #4: III Scherzo

    Required excerpts: Click Here for the Flute Repertoire

    1. One solo works that best demonstrate the full range of your technical and expressive skills. You may play without the accompanist.

    2. Excerpts:

    a. Oboe:

    1. Mendelssohn: Symphony No. 3, second movement, bars 32-67 AND bars 83-100

    2. Ravel: Le Tombeau de Couperin, Prelude, beginning-[2]

    If you would like to be considered for English Horn or bass oboe position, please prepare both the oboe and English Horn audition repertoire.

    ENGLISH HORN Excerpts:

    1. Debussy Nocturnes: Fêtes: mm. 3-8 AND rehearsal 2 to 9 m. after rehearsal 3

    2. Ravel Piano Concerto in G major Mvt II: rehearsal 6 to downbeat of rehearsal 9

    Click here for 2026 Oboe and English Horn Audition Music

  • clarinet AUDITIONS

    For FOOSA 2026, clarinet applicants should include in their audition videos the following:

    1. Mozart: Clarinet Concerto in A major, K. 622: 1st movement: Allegro - exposition.

    2. Excerpts (click here for music):

    a. Beethoven: Symphony No. 6, mvt. I – [K] – end

    b. Borodin: Polovtsian Dances: [B] to 9 before [C]

    c. Rimsky Korsakow- Capriccio Espagnole- Movement 1: [A] - to [B], [C] to 11 before the end

    d. Rachmaninoff 2nd Symphony- 3rd movement: Bar 6 to one bar before no. 47

    e. Applicants are highly encouraged to also record their choice of auxiliary clarinet (Bass clarinet, Eb clarinet) excerpts if they wish to do so.

  • BASSOON AUDITIONS

    For FOOSA 2026, bassoon applicants should include in their audition videos the following:

    1. Three octave chromatic scale: Low Bb to High Bb

    2. Solo work: Choose one of the following

    a. Mozart Bassoon Concerto in Bb 1st mvt as marked

    b. Weber Bassoon Concerto in F 1st mvt as marked

    3. Excerpts (click here for music):

    a. Marriage of Figaro meas. 139-171 (as marked) quarter = 152

    b. Ravel Bolero: Solo

    c. Tchaikovsky 4th Symphony mvt. 2 solo as marked

  • For FOOSA 2025, we have two contrabassoon positions. 

    Candidates should prepare and record:

    1. One scale of their choice showing the range of the instrument

    2. One piece of their choice

    3. Three excerpts (click here for music):

    • Beethoven: Symphony n.5 mvt IV measures 374-391 and 401-415

    • Brahms Variations on Haydn theme op. 56 Variation IV=measures 264-292

    • Mahler Symphony n. 4 mvt I 11-13

Winds

  • HORN PLACEMENT AUDITIONS

    1. Choose one of the following solos:

    a. Movement 1 of Richard Strauss, Concerto No. 1

    b. Exposition of W.A. Mozart Concerto 2 or 4

    c. First page of Hermann Neuling, Bagatelle

    2. Play the following excerpts:

                  a. Strauss: Ein Heldenleben, Horn 1, beginning to Rehearsal 5 

    b. Beethoven: Symphony No. 7, Horn 1 OR 2, Movement 1, mm. 423-the end

    c. Mahler: Symphony No. 1, Horn 2, Movement 3, Rehearsal 13-15

    d. Strauss: Alpine Symphony, Horn 2, 2 bars before rehearsal 63-rehearsal 66

    e. Strauss: Alpine Symphony, Horn 3, pickup to rehearsal 82 through rehearsal 87

    f. Stravinsky: Firebird Suite, Danse Infernal, Horn 1, beginning through rehearsal 3

    Excerpts (click here for music):

  • FOOSA 2026 Trumpet Audition Materials:

    1. One etude or solo work of the participant’s choice that best demonstrates the level of their playing.

    2. Excerpts (1st part unless notated):

    a.      Beethoven, Leonore Overture No. 3 - Offstage Call (one call only please) (in Bb)

    b.     Bartok, The Miraculous Mandarin - 2nd trumpet, 5th measure of rehearsal 66 to rehearsal 71) (in C)

    c.      Schumann, Symphony No. 2 - Mvt. 1 - Beginning 13 measures

    d.     Strauss, Eine Alpensinfonie - 5 measure before rehearsal 68 to rehearsal 71

    e.      Strauss, Eine Alpensinfonie - rehearsal 75 to rehearsal 76

    f.        Strauss, Ein Heldenleben - 1/2 Eb Trumpets - Last 8 bars  

    Excerpts: (click here for music)

  • LOW BRASS AUDITIONS

    PLEASE PREPARE FOR YOUR AUDITION VIDEO THE MUSIC APPROPRIATE FOR YOUR INSTRUMENT

    Tenor Trombone

    1- Solo: Ferdinand David, Concerto, movement 1 with Cadenza

    2- Mozart: Tuba Mirum from Requiem, 1-18

    3- Ravel: Bolero (solo)

    4- Saint-Saens: Symphony 3, (Q) - 2 measures before (R)

    5- Wagner: Valkyrie, upbeat to (6) to 3 measures after (7)

    6- Strauss Alpine Symphony (1st Trombone part)

    Rehearsal (120) to (121)

    Rehearsal (122) to 5 before (126)

    7- Bartok: Miraculous Mandarin (2nd trombone part)

    4 before (60) to 7 bars after (61)

    (71) to (74)

    Excerpts (click here for trombone excerpts)

    Bass Trombone:

    1- Solo: Bozza New Orleans, Beginning up to (4)

    2- Haydn: Creation, Achieved is the Glorious Work, m. 1-15

    3- Schumann: Symphony no. 3 “Rhenish”, Movement 4, chorale and solo

    4- Wagner: Ride of the Valkyrie’s (major section)

    5- Kodaly: Hary Janos, movement 4, (5) to 10 after (6)

    6-  Strauss Alpine Symphony (trombone 4)

    1 after (14) to 3 after (16), omit rests

    2 before (80) to 5 after (80)

    7- Bartok Miraculous Mandarin, (1) to down beat rehearsal (5)

    Excerpts (click here for bass trombone excerpts)

    Tuba Repertoire:

    1- Solo: Vaughn Williams Concerto, movement 1.

    2- Berlioz: Hungarian March

    3- Prokofiev: Symphony no. 5, movement 1, (3) to (6)

    4- Wagner: Ride of the Valkyries, pick up 8 before (11) to (12) 

    5- Wagner: Meistersinger Overture- measure 158 to 188

    6- Strauss: Alpine Symphony (Tuba 1)

    1 after (25) to (26); (27) to (28); (29) to 4 bars after. Note: these 3 in one unedited take, omit rests. 

    7- Bartok Miraculous Mandarin

    (34) to (37) 

    Excerpts (click here for tuba excerpts)

Brass

  • PERCUSSION AUDITIONS

    For FOOSA 2026, percussion applicants should include in their audition videos the following:

    1. A solo piece from the standard mallet repertoire (2-4 mallets), that best shows applicant’s technical and musical abilities: 2-4 minutes in length.

    2. Excerpts (click here for sheet music):

    1. Snare Drum:

    Rimsky-Korsakov: Scheherazade, Mov. 3, [D] to [E]; 5th measure after [F] to [G]

    2. Glockenspiel:

    Dukas: The Sorcerer’s Apprentice, [17] to 4th measure after [19]

    3. Timpani:

    Tchaikovsky: 4th Symphony, Movement 1, [T] to reh [U]

    4. Cymbals:

    Tchaikovsky: 4th Symphony, Movement 4, m. 272 to the end

    5. Tambourine:

    Dvorak: Carnival Overture, beginning to m. 40 only

  • HARP AUDITIONS

    For FOOSA 2026, harp applicants should include in their audition videos the following:

    1. A solo work from the standard harp literature: excerpt to be no longer than 5 minutes in length. (Preferably not a transcription unless it’s something like Bach/Grandjany Etudes or Liszt/Renie Le Rossignol)

    2. Excerpts (click here for sheet music)

    a. Berlioz, Symphonie Fantastique: Un Bal, Harp 1

    1. Beginning to Rehearsal 25

    2. Rehearsal 32 to 35

    b. Mahler, 5th Symphony: Adagietto:

    1. Beginning through 8 measures after Rehearsal 2 (key change).

    Note: all rest beats or measures to be counted as you would in performance.

Percussion / Harp