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Brass and Percussion

Blair Brass

Area Chair: Jeremy Wilson

Brass Studies

The following Brass faculty provide instruction to students on the following instruments and levels:

  • Trumpet - Jose Sibaja: University majors, performance minors and Blair Academy students
  • Horn - Leslie Norton: University majors and Blair Academy students
  • Trombone - Jeremy Wilson: University majors, non-majors, and Blair Academy students.
  • Tuba/Euphonium - Bethany Wiese: University majors, non-majors, and Blair Academy students

Percussion Studies

The following Percussion faculty provide instruction to students on the following instruments and levels:

  • Ji Hye Jung: Majors in the context of the studio, chamber music coaching for university majors, and percussion studio class
  • Lee Vinson: Orchestral techniques, fundamentals seminar, university second majors, minors and non-majors, Blair Academy students, and methods instruction for music education majors.

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  • Recommended Audition Repertoires for Brass and Percussion

    Horn

    • 1st movement of a Mozart concerto (prescreening and audition)
    • Contrasting Mozart: 1st movement of a concerto, sonata, or solo piece (prescreening and audition) *example: Strauss Concerto, movement 1, or Hindemith Sonata, movement 1, or Krol Laudatio
    • Three orchestral excerpts of your choice: one high, one low, one lyrical (prescreening and audition)
    • Kopprasch Etude of choice from Book 1 or 2 (prescreening and audition)

    Trumpet

    • Major and minor scales (audition only)
    • Two contrasting études, such as Charlier, Brandt, Arban or Bousquet (one is required for prescreening, two are required for audition)
    • Movement of a major work, such as the Haydn Concerto, Hummel Concerto, Hindemith Sonata, or similar work (prescreening and audition)
    • Two or three orchestral excerpts of your choice (audition only)

    Tenor Trombone

    • Movement of a major solo work such as Guilmant, David Bozza, Grøndahl, or similar work (prescreening and audition)
    • Three contrasting orchestral excerpts of your choice (audition only)

    Bass Trombone

    • Movement from a major solo work such as Lebedev, Koetsier, Bozza, Ewazen, Hidas, or similar work (prescreening and audition)

    • Three contrasting orchestral excerpts of your choice (audition only)

    Euphonium

    • Movement from a major solo work such as Guilmant, Barat, Jacob, Capuzzi or similar work (prescreening and audition)
    • Three contrasting band and/or orchestral excerpts of your choice (audition only)

    Tuba

    • Movement of a major solo work such as Gregson, Vaughan Williams, Hindemith, Lebedev or similar work (prescreening and audition)
    • Three contrasting band and/or orchestral excerpts of your choice (audition only)

    Percussion

    • Concert snare drum solo or étude (prescreening and audition)
    • Four-mallet marimba solo or étude (prescreening and audition)
    • Timpani solo or étude (prescreening and audition) 
    • Traditional rudimental snare drum solo or étude (audition only)
    • Two-mallet keyboard solo, transcription or étude (audition only)
    • Demonstrate the ability to recognize, sing and tune pitches and intervals on timpani (audition only)
    • Sight-reading on all percussion instruments listed above (audition only)

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