Brass and Percussion

Blair Brass

Area Coordinator: 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
  • Horn - Anna Spina: University non-majors and Blair Academy students
  • Trombone - Jeremy Wilson: University majors, non-majors, and Blair Academy students.
  • Trombone - Nick Laufer: University 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
  • Mat Britain: Steel Band and private pan for elective credit to university students
  • Lee Vinson: Orchestral techniques, fundamentals seminar, university second majors, minors and non-majors, Blair Academy students, and methods instruction for music education majors

Pre-screening & Audition Repertoire Requirements

All applicants must complete a pre-screening video according to their program (instrument, voice, composition or jazz.) Pre-screening requirements are the same regardless of your specific major of interest. For example: all voice applicants will follow the vocal requirements below no matter what they plan to major in (Performance, Integrated Studies, or along the Musical Arts degree.) Once the admissions process is complete, admitted students will notify us of their intended specific major. You can learn more about these majors here. Jazz applicants should follow the specific Jazz requirements for pre-screening and audition on their primary instrument or voice.

All applicants should feel free to reach out to Blair Admissions with audition repertoire questions.

  • Recommended Audition Repertoires for Brass and Percussion

    Horn

    • Étude from Gallay, Kopprasch, Kling or Maxime-Alphonse book 3 (pre-screening and audition)
    • First movement from a standard concerto (pre-screening and audition)
    • 3 orchestral excerpts of your choice (pre-screening and audition)

    Trumpet

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

    Tenor Trombone

    • Three contrasting orchestral excerpts (audition only)

    • One solo work selected from the following: (pre-screening and audition)

      • Guilmant, Morceau Symphonique (entire)

      • David, Concertino (movements 1 & 2)

      • Bozza, Ballade (entire)

      • Grøndahl, Concerto (movements 1 & 2)

    • Sight-reading (audition only)

    Bass Trombone

    • One solo work selected from the following: (pre-screening and audition)

      • Lebedev, Concerto in  One Movement  (entire)

      • Bozza, New Orleans (entire)

      • Hidas, Meditation (entire)

      • Koetsier, Allegro Maestoso (entire)

      • Ewazen, Concertino (entire)

    • Three contrasting orchestral works (audition only)
    • Sight-reading (audition only)

    Euphonium

    • Major and minor scales (audition only)
    • Two contrasting études, technical and lyrical (only one required for pre-screening; two required for audition)
    • Solo by Barat, Capuzzi, Sparke, Ellerby or similar work (pre-screening and audition)
    • Orchestral or band excerpts (optional for audition only)

    Tuba

    • Major and minor scales (audition only)
    • Two contrasting études (only one required for pre-screening; two required for audition)
    • First movement of the Vaughan Williams or Gregson Concerto, Hindemith Sonata, or similar work (pre-screening and audition)
    • Orchestral excerpts (audition only)

    Percussion

    • Concert snare drum solo or étude (pre-screening and audition)
    • Four-mallet marimba solo or étude (pre-screening and audition)
    • Timpani solo or étude (pre-screening 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)
    • Possible sight-reading on snare drum, timpani and marimba (audition only)

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