High School Solo Competition

Eligibility

Students entering this competition must be currently enrolled in high school (grades 9–12) or in a home-schooling program and younger than 19 years old on March 5, 2011. Competing students must not have performed professionally under full-time contract, or have been previously offered such employment by virtue of winning a full-time professional audition.

Rules

All entrants will perform one selection from the indicated repertoire. Each entrant must be accompanied by a pianist. Students who need to use a workshop pianist should arrange this in advance by emailing Dr. Robertson. There is no additional charge for using a workshop pianist, but students should plan on rehearsing with the pianist the day before the competition (the afternoon or evening of Friday, March 4). Students are also welcome to bring their own pianists; practice rooms will be available during the workshop.

While the competition begins at 9:00 a.m. on Saturday March 5, approximate times of performance will be communicated either by phone or email to entrants in late February. Entrants should be at the audition venue warmed up and ready to play about 10 minutes in advance of their scheduled times.

If the judges find it necessary, an additional final round will be scheduled later in the day (Saturday, March 5). The judges also reserve the right not to choose a winner, should the quality of performances merit. The winner of the competition will be offered the opportunity to perform at the Final Concert on Sunday, March 6.

Students may sit or stand to perform. Students are not required to perform from memory. However, students using music must perform from legal printed copies: no photocopies or scanned copies of music are permitted. Students need not supply judges with score copies.

Parents or guardians may sit in the room during their student’s performance, but should not stay for the performances of other students. The general public will not be invited to observe this competition.

Prepare one solo from the following list. Please also note the cuts indicated in the piano passages, in the interests of scheduling.

Repertoire

Franz Strauss, Concerto, Op. 8, mvt. 1.

(The pianist will begin four measures before the horn solo entrance.)

Richard Strauss, Concerto No. 1 in E-flat Major, Op. 11, mvt. 1.

(After the opening fanfare, the pianist will begin nine measures before the measure of the next solo entrance. All other tutti sections as printed. The tutti at the end of the movement after the solo has ended should be abbreviated.)

W. A. Mozart, Concerto, No. 3 in E-flat Major, K. 447, mvt. 1.

(Begin at the beginning, play through the first two beats of measure 9, including horn solo; skip to the last two beats of measure 25. All other tutti sections as printed.)

College Solo Competition

Eligibility

Students entering this competition must be enrolled at a college or university as undergraduate or graduate students, and must not currently hold a teaching position at a college or university (graduate assistantships excepted). Competing students must not have performed professionally under full-time contract, or have been previously offered such employment by virtue of winning a full-time professional audition.

Rules

The first round of the competition requires unaccompanied repertoire; a workshop accompanist will be assigned for those performing in the final solo round. Rehearsal times with a pianist for the final round will be assigned Friday afternoon.

The first round audition slots will be assigned via email or phone after February 20, 2011, and will generally be scheduled the morning of Friday, March 4, 2011. Performance order for the final round will be apportioned by Friday afternoon, and the final round itself will occur Saturday, March 5.

The judges reserve the right not to choose a winner, should the quality of performances merit. The winner of the competition will be offered the opportunity to perform at the Final Concert on Sunday, March 6.

Students may stand or sit to perform. Students are not required to perform from memory. However, students using music must perform from legal printed copies: no photocopies or scanned copies of music are permitted. Students need not supply judges with score copies.

The first round is closed to the public, but the second round will be open for public viewing.

Choose one work for each round from the following lists.

Round One Repertoire

• Sigurd Berge, Horn-Lokk.
• Otto Ketting, Intrada.
• Bernhard Krol, Laudatio.
• Steven Winteregg, Blue Soliloquy [Pasticcio Music].

Round Two Repertoire

• Paul Dukas, Villanelle.
• Gordon Jacob, Concerto, mvt. 1.
• W.A. Mozart, Concerto No. 2 in E-flat Major, K. 417, mvt. 1.
• Richard Strauss, Concerto No. 1 in E-flat Major, Op. 11, mvt. 1.

Mock Orchestral Auditions

Eligibility

Students entering this competition must be enrolled at a college or university as undergraduate or graduate students, and must not currently hold a teaching position at a college or university (graduate assistantships excepted). Competing students must not have performed professionally under full-time contract, or have been previously offered such employment by virtue of winning a full-time professional audition.

Rules

The first round audition slots will be assigned via email or phone after February 20, 2011 and will generally be scheduled between the hours of 11:00 a.m.and 6:00 p.m. on Friday, March 4, 2011. Performance order for the final round will be apportioned by Friday afternoon, and the final round itself will occur at 3:00 p.m. on Satuday, March 5.

The judges reserve the right not to choose a winner, should the quality of performances merit. The winners of the auditions will be recognized at the Final Concert on Sunday, March 6.

During the audition, students will conform to the excerpted parts available on the stand, which will be taken directly from the orchestral parts for the indicated works.

In the first round, the performers will be separated from the judges by a screen. The second round will not be screened. The general public will not be invited to observe this competition.

Each entrant should prepare all of the excerpts from either the high horn or low horn audition list.

High Horn Repertoire

Johann Sebastian Bach, Brandenburg Concerto No. 1.

Mvt. 4, Trio 2, Horn 1.

Ludwig van Beethoven, Symphony No. 6, Op. 68.

Mvt. 3, mm. 132–161, Horn 1.

Johannes Brahms, Symphony No. 1, Op. 68.

Mvt. 2, mm. 90–105, Horn 1. (Corrected 1/24.)

Camille Saint-Saëns, Symphony No. 3, Op. 78.

Mvt. 1, rehearsal Q to rehearsal S, Horn 3.

Richard Strauss. Till Eulenspiegel, Op. 28.

13 measures before rehearsal 29 to rehearsal 30, Horn 3. (Corrected 1/24.)

Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky. Symphony No. 4.

Mvt. 1, beginning to m. 20; mm. 169–201; mm. 295–307, Horn 1.

Low Horn Repertoire

Ludwig van Beethoven. Symphony No. 3, Op. 55.

Mvt. 3, pickup to mm. 171–265 (Trio, some editions number these mm. 167–255), Horn 2.

Ludwig van Beethoven. Overture to Fidelio, Op. 72.

Adagio—Allegro, mm. 45–55, Horn 2.

Joseph Haydn. Symphony No. 31 (“Hornsignal”).

Mvt. 2, mm. 12–16, 36–38, Horn 2. (Corrected 1/24.)

Gustav Mahler. Symphony No. 1.

Mvt. 3, mm. 113–132 (3 bars after rehearsal 13 to rehearsal 15), Horn 2. (Clarified 1/24.)

Felix Mendelssohn, Symphony No. 3, Op. 56.

Mvt. 2, mm. 183–229, Horn 4.

Richard Strauss. Don Quixote, Op. 35.

Variation 7: rehearsal 57 to 5 measures after rehearsal 58, Horn 2.

Richard Wagner. Prelude to Das Rheingold.

In moto tranquillo, sereno (Ruhig heitere Bewegung), mm. 17–62, Horn 8.

Quartet Competition

Eligibility

Students entering this competition must be enrolled at a college or university as undergraduate or graduate students, and must not currently hold a teaching position at a college or university (graduate assistantships excepted). Competing students must not have performed professionally under full-time contract, or have been previously offered such employment by virtue of winning a full-time professional audition. All four performers in the quartet must register for the workshop and individually pay the competition fee.

Rules

The audition slots will be assigned via email or phone after February 20, 2011, and will generally be scheduled between the hours of 9:00 a.m. and 3:00 p.m. on Friday March 4, 2011. If the judges find it necessary, an additional final round will be scheduled Saturday, March 5.

The judges reserve the right not to choose a winner, should the quality of performances merit. The winners of the competition will be offered the opportunity to perform at the Final Concert on Sunday, March 6.

Quartets may sit or stand to perform. Quartets are not required to perform from memory. However, students using music must perform from legal printed copies: no photocopies or scanned copies of music are permitted. Each quartet must supply the judges with one score of each piece performed.

The general public will not be invited to observe this competition.

Repertoire

Each quartet should prepare no more than 12 minutes of music. Groups will be stopped after twelve minutes, and each audition slot is to take up no more than 15 minutes. Changing music and setup between selections is included in your performance time. Each quartet should, within this time slot, perform two works or movements of contrasting style. Only one of those pieces/movements may be an existing transcription, while the other must be a work originally composed for horn quartet. The group may instead perform two contrasting movements or works composed for horn quartet (i.e., not transcriptions).