Youth Chamber Music Audition Requirements

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• Major scale - 2 octave scale with  détaché stroke - 16th notes = 60bpm minimum
• Harmonic/Melodic minor scale - 2 octave scale slurred every 8 notes = 72bpm minimum.
• Excerpt of a solo piece (or two contrasting pieces/etudes) demonstrating both lyrical and technical passages, no longer than 5 minutes

• Major scale - 3 octave scale with  détaché stroke - 16th notes = 60bpm minimum
• Harmonic/Melodic minor scale - 3 octave scale slurred every 8 notes = 72bpm minimum.
• Excerpt of a solo piece (or two contrasting pieces/etudes) demonstrating both lyrical and technical passages, no longer than 5 minutes

• Chromatic scale - 2 octave slurred, at 16th notes = 72bpm minimum (low range instruments - quarter = 50bpm
• Major scale - 2 octave tongued scale at 16th notes = 72bpm (low range instruments - quarter = 50bpm)
• Harmonic/Melodic minor scale - 2 octave slurred scale  at 16th notes = 72bpm (low range instruments - quarter = 50bpm)
• Excerpt of a solo piece (or two contrasting pieces/etudes) demonstrating both lyrical and technical passages, no longer than 3 minutes

• Chromatic scale -fullest range slurred, at 16th notes = 72bpm minimum (low range instruments - quarter = 60bpm
• Major scale - 2 octave tongued scale at 16th notes = 72bpm (low range instruments - quarter = 60bpm)
• Harmonic/Melodic minor scale - 2 octave slurred scale  at 16th notes = 72bpm (low range instruments - quarter = 60bpm)
• Excerpt of a solo piece (or two contrasting pieces/etudes) demonstrating both lyrical and technical passages, no longer than 3 minutes

• Chromatic scale - 2 octave slurred, at 8th notes = 72bpm minimum (low range instruments - quarter = 50bpm
• Major scale - 1 octave tongued scale at 8th notes = 72bpm (low range instruments - quarter = 50bpm)
• Harmonic/Melodic minor scale -1 octave slurred scale  at 8th notes = 72bpm (low range instruments - quarter = 50bpm)
• Excerpt of a solo piece (or two contrasting pieces/etudes) demonstrating both lyrical and technical passages, no longer than 3 minutes

• Chromatic scale -fullest range slurred, at 16th notes = 72bpm minimum (low range - quarter = 60bpm
• Major scale - 2 octave tongued scale at 16th notes = 72bpm (low range - quarter = 60bpm)
• Harmonic/Melodic minor scale - 2 octave slurred scale  at 16th notes = 72bpm (low range - quarter = 60bpm)
• Excerpt of a solo piece (or two contrasting pieces/etudes) demonstrating both lyrical and technical passages, no longer than 3 minutes

• Major scale - hands together, at least two octaves up and down in parallel motion - 16th notes = 72 minimum.
• Harmonic/Melodic minor scale - hands together, at least two octaves up and down in parallel motion - 16th notes = 72 minimum.
• Arpeggio - hands together, at least two octaves up and down in parallel motion - 8th notes = 72 minimum.
• Excerpt of a solo piece (or two contrasting pieces/etudes) demonstrating both lyrical and technical passages, no longer than 5 minutes 

• Snare drum roll for 10-15 seconds
• 2 octave scale on any mallet instrument
• Excerpt of a solo piece (or two contrasting pieces/etudes) on snare, timpani or other multi-percussion set, no longer than 3 minutes

Advanced level solo vocalists, with advanced training and private lessons, are welcome. The experience would be purely ensemble, rather than solo with accompaniment.

• two contrasting, classical works, no longer than three minutes, each