Undergraduate Auditions

  • Undergraduate auditions will be held in late February and early March.
  • Auditions can also be held by appointment: Contact Dr. McCandless for more information.
  • Students will audition for admission to the School of Music and for scholarship during the same audition.
  • Students must prepare their auditions on the soprano clarinet (B-flat or A).
  • Students auditioning for scholarship should be prepared to play two contrasting works. The works can, but do not have to, be chosen from the following list:
    • Arnold: Sonatina
    • Baermann: Adagio
    • Bozza: Fantasie Italienne
    • Cavallini: Adagio and Tarantella
    • Crusell: Concerti, Theme and Variations
    • Finzi: Five Bagatelles
    • Gade: Fantasy Pieces
    • Lefebvre: Fantasie Caprice
    • Hoffmeister: Concerto or Sonatas
    • Krommer: Concerto
    • Marty: First Fantasy
    • Mozart: Concerto
    • Nielsen: Fantasy Piece
    • Osborne: Rhapsody
    • Rabaud: Solo de Concours
    • Saint-Saens: Sonata
    • Schumann: Fantasy Pieces
    • Spohr: Concerti
    • Stamitz: Concerti
    • Tartini: Concertino
    • Vaughn Williams: Six Studies
    • Weber: Concerti, Concertino, Quintet, etc.
  • Click here for more information concerning UNI's Undergraduate Program in Music.

Graduate Auditions

  • Graduate auditions are held by appointment: Contact Dr. McCandless for more information.
  • Students will audition for admission to the university and for an assistantship during the same audition.
  • Students auditioning for the Master of Music degree in Clarinet should prepare the following repertoire:
    • All major and minor scales, major and minor arpeggios, augmented triads, diminished seventh chords, dominant seventh chords, whole tone scales, and the chromatic scale
    • Two contrasting works of different historical periods. The works can, but do not have to, be chosen from the following list:
      • Berio: Sequenza
      • Brahms: Sonatas
      • Carter: Gra
      • Copland: Concerto
      • Debussy: Rhapsody
      • Hindemith: Concerto or Sonata
      • Horovitz: Sonatina
      • Kokai: Four Hungarian Dances
      • Lutoslawski: Dance Preludes
      • Martinu: Sonatina
      • Martino: Set for Clarinet
      • Messiaen: "Abime des Oiseaux" from Quartet for the End of Time
      • Mozart: Concerto
      • Muczynski: Time Pieces
      • Nielsen: Concerto
      • Poulenc: Sonata
      • Ran: Monologue
      • Smith: Five Pieces
      • Stravinsky: Three Pieces
      • Stockhausen: Amour, In Freundshaft
      • Tomasi: Concerto
      • Tower: Wings
      • Weber: Concerto No. 2 or Quintet
    • Two or three contrasting orchestral excerpts. The excerpts can, but do not have to, be chosen from the following list:
      • Bartok: Miraculous Mandarin
      • Beethoven: Symphonies Nos. 4, 6, 8
      • Borodin: Polovtsian Dances
      • Brahms: Symphony No. 3
      • Kodaly: Galanta Dances
      • Mendelssohn: "Scherzo" from A Midsummer Night's Dream, Symphony No. 3
      • Prokofiev: Peter and the Wolf
      • Rachmaninoff: Symphony No. 2
      • Ravel: Daphnis et Chloe Suite 2
      • Respighi: Pines of Rome
      • Rimsky-Korsakov: Capriccio Espagnol, Scheherazade
      • Schubert: Symphony No. 8
      • Shostakovitch: Symphonies Nos. 1, 9
      • Strauss: Don Juan
      • Stravinsky: Firebird
      • Tchaikovsky: Symphonies No. 4, 5, 6
    • Click here for more information concerning UNI's Graduate Program in Music.