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Audition Requirements for 2022-2023

Auditions will be held in the afternoon of August 28 at Holy Trinity Lutheran Church, ​1005 N. 21st Street, Lafayette, IN 47904. 

Please complete the registration information on this website and read all the requirements carefully.  We try to schedule like instruments together, but if you know of a conflict that cannot be resolved on August 28 between 2 and 6, please let Mrs. Letcher know  by email.  Times will not be assigned until August 20, please complete your registration prior to August 18. 

Please encourage your fellow musicians at school to audition to play with us! We had many players graduate and have many openings!  We have financial aid money to give away, so please let them know!

Scales, solo excerpt, and music excerpts will all be heard.   Please make sure you have listened to excerpts on YouTube or somewhere else to be familiar with the pieces.  Some judges comment in past years were that it was obvious some people had not bothered to listen to the piece, and it made a huge difference in their audition!.

Please contact Carol Letcher, 765-490-3464 or CDLetcher@comcast.net for questions. 

Also, if you plan to audition, please fill out this form to provide personal and contact information. For any question regarding the registration form, please email or call.


All instruments should prepare:
1) one minute of a prepared solo. Choose a section that highlights your technique and musicality.
2) Play a scale of your choice with the stipulations as outlined for your instrument.
3) the prepared excerpts which are found below with the name of your instrument. You are to play all portions bracketed.


These are the excerpts for 2022:
BRASS:
Trumpet Excerpt. 
Scale of your choice - 2 octaves and perform in given rhythm (1 eighth note followed by 6 sixteenth notes), slurring by the quarter beat. Quarter note = 60. Player chooses the starting octave.



Trombone  Excerpt
Scale of your choice - 2 octaves and perform in given rhythm (1 eighth note followed by 6 sixteenth notes), slurring by the quarter beat. Quarter note = 60. Player chooses the starting octave.

Horn Excerpt 
Scale of your choice - 2 octaves and perform in given rhythm (1 eighth note followed by 6 sixteenth notes), slurring by the quarter beat. Quarter note = 60. Player chooses the starting octave.

Tuba Excerpt
Scale of your choice to best demonstrate your ability.

WOODWINDS:
Flute Excerpt
Piccolo Excerpt: 

Oboe Excerpt
English Horn  Excerpt
Scale of your choice - 2 octaves and perform in given rhythm (1 eighth note followed by 6 sixteenth notes), slurring by the quarter beat. Quarter note = 60. Player chooses the starting octave.

Clarinet Excerpt
Bassoon Excerpt
Scale of your choice - 2 octaves and perform in given rhythm (1 eighth note followed by 6 sixteenth notes), slurring by the quarter beat. Quarter note = 60. Player chooses the starting octave.

Percussion Excerpt:
Timpani
Xylophone
STRINGS
Violin 1 Excerpts,  Perform 3 octave scale of your choosing in triplet rhythm slur 3. Quarter note = 60.

Violin 2 Excerpts, Perform 3 octave scale of your choosing in triplet rhythm slur 3. Quarter note = 60.

Viola Excerpts.
Perform 3 octave scale of your choosing in triplet rhythm slur 3. Quarter note = 60.

Cello Excerpts
Perform 3 octave scale of your choosing in triplet rhythm slur 3. Quarter note = 60.

Double Bass Excerpts 
Perform 2 octave scale of your choosing in triplet rhythm slur 3. Quarter note = 60.

Harp  Excerpts

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    • Our Conductor
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    • Board of Directors
  • Members
    • 2022-23 Audition Information
    • Concerto Competition
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