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Audition

If you are interested in auditioning to become a member of the University of Iowa Tuba/Euphonium Studio, you can find out basic information on this link. It is strongly encouraged that you contact Professor Manning in advance to schedule a complimentary lesson, visit the campus, and meet some of the students in the studio.

The University of Iowa School of Music holds special audition days. This year, they are:

Friday, November 9, 2012
Friday, February 8, 2013

You may request special audition dates other than the two above. Please contact Professor Manning if you would like to schedule an audition, or if you have any questions.

Here is a link to general information regarding undergraduate auditions. For audition requirements and recommended audition material, please visit this page. For suggested audition material, please see the appropriate column below:
Suggested Audition Material:

Undergraduate Tuba
Solos
Vaughan Williams - Concerto for Bass Tuba
Hindemith - Sonata for Tuba and Piano
Gregson - Tuba Concerto
Bach/Bell - Air and Bouree
Hartley - Unaccompanied Tuba Sonata
Persichetti - Serenade No. 12
Barat - Introduction and Dance
Lebedev
Haddad - Suite for Tuba
Nelhybel - Suite for Tuba

Etudes:
Bordogni/Rochut
Blazevich
Kopprasch
Vasiliev
Graduate Tuba
Solos
Vaughan Williams - Concerto for Bass Tuba
Hindemith - Sonata for Tuba and Piano
Plog - Three Miniatures
Penderecki - Capriccio
Broughton - Sonata
John Williams - Tuba Concerto

Orchestral Excerpts
Berlioz - Hungarian March
Berlioz - Symphonie Fantastique
Brahms - Symphony No. 2
Bruckner - Symphony No. 7
Prokofiev - Symphony No. 5
Stravinsky - Pertrouska
Strauss - Til Euelenspiegel
Respighi - Fountains of Rome
Wagner - Ride of the Walkyries
Wagner - Overture to Die Meistersinger
Suggested Audition Material:

Undergraduate Euphonium
Solos
White - Lyric Suite
Haddad - Suite for Tuba
Marcello - (any) Sonata
Vaughan Williams - Six Studies in English Folk Song< Capuzzi - Andante and Rondo
Jacob - Fantasia
Horovitz - Euphonium Concerto
Clarke - Bride of the Waves
Etudes
Arban - Characteristic Studies
Rochut
Voxman - Selected Studies
Graduate Euphonium

Solos
Cosma - Euphonium Concerto
Gillingham - Blue Lake Fantasies
Sparke - Pantomime
Horovitz - Euphonium Concerto
Curnow - Symphonic Variants

Band and Orchestral Excerpts
Mussorgsy - Pictures at an Exhibition; Bydlo
Holst - The Planets; Mars and Jupiter
Mahler - Symphony No. 7
Strauss - Don Quixote
Strauss - Ein Heldenleben
Hindemith -
Grainger -
Holst - Military Suites
Sousa - Stars and Stripes Forever