PERCUSSION AUDITIONS

For FOOSA 2024, 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