FOOSA AUDITION and 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.

For the FOOSA VOCAL ACADEMY, Applicants should submit an unedited recording of two contrasting classical selections, such as art songs or arias from opera or oratorio. One selection must be performed in German. Performances must be accompanied by either a live pianist or recorded accompaniment. Recording must be unedited.

For the FOOSA YOUTH VOCAL ACADEMY (Half-day), young singers should submit an unedited recording of a favorite song. Choose something you enjoy singing and that allows your personality and voice to shine!

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 for instrumentalists. More than one video submission is permitted, but videos should be unedited. Acceptd offers several options for uploading video files. You are also permitted to send YouTube links.

click here for specific Vocal Academy audition requirements.

click here (Philharmonic only) for concerto competition requirements.

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

FOOSA Video Requirements

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FOOSA Philharmonic Audition Requirements

  • VIOLIN AUDITIONS

    For FOOSA 2027, 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.

    FOOSA 2027
    Violin Audition Repertoire:

    1. 1. 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.

    2. Excerpts:
    a. Mahler, Symphony No. 3: Movement 1: 5 measures after [44] until 3 measures before [47]:

    b. Mahler, Symphony No. 3: Movement 1: 1 measure after [50] to [51]:

    c. Mahler, Symphony No. 3: Movement 6: [17] to 2 measures after [20]:

    Required excerpts: Click Here for Violin Audition Repertoire

  • VIOLA AUDITIONS

    For FOOSA 2027, 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.

    Viola:

    FOOSA 2027
    Viola Audition Repertoire:

    1. 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.

    2. Excerpts:
    a. Mahler, Symphony No. 3, Movement 1: [44] – [46]:

    b. Mahler, Symphony No. 7, Movement 4: [254] – [258]:

    Required excerpts: Click Here for Viola Audition Repertoire

  • CELLO AUDITIONS

    For FOOSA 2027, 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.

    Cello:

    FOOSA 2027
    Cello Audition Repertoire:

    1. 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.

    2. Excerpts:
    a. Mahler, Symphony No. 3, Movement 1: [43] until [48]:

    b. Mahler, Symphony No. 3, Movement 1: 2 measures before [51] until 2 measures before [54]:

    Required excerpts: Click Here for Cello Audition Repertoire

  • BASS AUDITIONS

    For FOOSA 2027, 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.

    Bass:

    1. One solo work or one movement from a Concerto or a Sonata (with or without piano) of the participant’s choice that best demonstrates current level of technique and musicianship.


    2. Excerpts:
    a. Mahler: Symphony No. 3, Movement 1, from upbeat to [43] until 1 measure after [47]:

    b. Mahler: Symphony No. 3, Mvt. 1, 2 measures before [52] until 5 measures after [54]:

    Required excerpts: Click here the Bass Repertoire

Strings

  • FLUTE AUDITIONS

    For FOOSA 2027 flute applicants should include in their audition videos the following: Please make sure to introduce yourself in your video. “My name is [name], and I am interested in participating in FOOSA 2027 because…”

    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 2027 Oboe and English Horn Audition Music

  • clarinet AUDITIONS

    For FOOSA 2027, 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 2027, 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 2027,

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

    d. Mahler: Symphony No. 3, Horn 1, pickups to rehearsal 29 through second bar of rehearsal 31

    e. Mahler: Symphony No. 3, Horn 4, pickup to rehearsal 55 to 4 bars before 57   

    Excerpts (click here for music):

  • FOOSA 2027 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) Music is provided. Click the link below.

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

    b.    Mussorgsky/Ravel - Pictures at an Exhibition (in C) - 1st Part Only

    c.      Ravel - Piano Concerto in G (in C)

    d.     Mahler - Symphony No. 3 (Posthorn in Bb)

    e.      Stravinsky - Petrouchka - Ballerina's Dance (in Bb)

    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

    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

    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.The following excerpts:

    • Bruch, Kol Nidrei, Opus 47

    • Wagner, Der Meistersinger, Vorspiel

    • Mahler, Symphony no. 3:

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

Percussion / Harp