Each year, Music House offers a workshop series designed to prepare college students and young professionals for success in their orchestral audition pursuits. The program includes lectures by acclaimed artists, repertory orchestra, and “Mock Auditions” adjudicated by Kensho Watanabe, Assistant Conductor of The Philadelphia Orchestra.
Repertory Orchestra
Repertory Orchestra: Four 2-hour rehearsal sessions with Maestro Watanabe and other guest conductors, working on intensive repertory exposure to works regularly found on major orchestral auditions, such as: Mozart Symphony No. 35 “Haffner”, Brahms Symphony No. 1, Dvořák Symphony No. 7, Strauss’ Don Juan, Stravinsky’s The Firebird, and other works.
Mock Auditions
If you anticipate participation in the mock auditions, please review the lists below for required audition repertoire by instrument.
(Note: you may choose any combination of the excerpts listed; you will not be expected to perform all of them.)
Beethoven: Symphony No. 1
Beethoven: Symphony No. 3 - 3rd movement
Brahms: Symphony No. 1
Brahms: Symphony No. 4
Mendelssohn: A Midsummer Night's Dream - Scherzo
Mozart: Symphony No 39 - 2nd & 4th movements
Strauss: Don Juan - beginning through rehearsal letter D
Beethoven: Symphony No. 3 - third movement
Berlioz: Roman Carnival
Brahms: Haydn Variations Nos. 6 & 7
Brahms: Haydn Variations No. 8
Mozart: Symphony No. 35
Strauss: Don Juan - beginning through rehearsal letter D
Beethoven: Symphony No. 5 - 2nd & 3rd movements
Beethoven: Symphony No. 9
Brahms: Symphony No. 2 - 2nd movement
Mendelssohn: A Midsummer Night's Dream - Scherzo
Mozart: Marriage of Figaro - Overture
Mozart: Symphony No. 35 - 4th movement
Strauss: Don Juan - beginning through rehearsal letter D
Beethoven: Symphony No. 5 - 3rd movement (page 1)
Beethoven: Symphony No. 5 - 3rd movement (page 2)
Beethoven: Symphony No. 9 - Presto
Mozart: Marriage of Figaro - Overture
Mozart: Symphony No. 35 - 4th movement
Mozart: Symphony No. 41 - 2nd and 4th movements
Strauss: Don Juan
Ravel: L'Enfant et les Sortileges
Beethoven: Symphony No. 3
Brahms: Symphony No. 1
Brahms: Symphony No. 2 - 1st and 2nd movements
Brahms: Symphony No. 4
Rimsky-Korsakov: Capriccio Espagnole - 4th movement
Rimsky-Korsakov: Russian Easter Overture
Saint-Saens: Carnival of the Animals - "Voliere" page 1
Saint-Saens: Carnival of the Animals - "Voliere" page 2
Tchaikovsky: Symphony No. 5 - 1st movement
Beethoven: Symphony No. 3
Beethoven: Symphony No. 6
Beethoven: Symphony No. 9 - 2nd movement
Brahms: Haydn Variations - Theme & No. 3
Brahms: Symphony No. 1
Brahms: Violin Concerto - 2nd movement
Mendelssohn: Symphony No. 3
Mussorgsky: Pictures At An Exhibition - "The Old Castle"
Mussorgsky: Pictures At An Exhibition - "Limoges, the Market"
Rimsky-Korsakov: Scheherazade - 2nd & 3rd movements
Richard Strauss: Don Juan
Beethoven: Symphony No. 3
Beethoven: Symphony No. 6 Excerpts - Page 1
Beethoven: Symphony No. 6 Excerpts - Page 2
Berlioz: Symphonie Fantastique Excerpts
Mendelssohn: Midsummer Night's Dream - Scherzo
Mozart: Symphony No. 39
Prokofiev: Peter and the Wolf
Richard Strauss: Don Juan
Beethoven: Symphony No. 4
Beethoven: Symphony No. 6
Berlioz: Symphonie Fantastique
Mozart: The Marriage of Figaro
Ravel: Bolero
Richard Strauss: Til Eulenspiegel's Merry Pranks
Trumpet mock auditions excerpts:
Mahler: Symphony No. 5 - 1st movement
Mussorgsky: Pictures at an Exhibition - Promenade
Ravel: Piano Concerto in G Major - 1st movement
Rimsky-Korsakov: Scheherezade - 4th movement
Stravinsky: Petrushka
Brahms: Symphony No. 1
Mahler: Symphony No. 3 - Page 1
Mahler: Symphony No. 3 - Page 2
Mahler: Symphony No. 3 - Page 3
Mozart: Requiem - Tuba Mirum
Ravel: Bolero
Rossini: William Tell Overture
Wagner: Ride of the Valkyries - Page 1
Wagner: Ride of the Valkyries - Page 2
Bach: Cello Suite No. 5 - Sarabande
Berlioz: Romeo and Juliet excerpts
Brahms: Symphony No. 1 excerpt
Haydn: The Creation
Rossini: La Gazza Ladra Overture excerpts
Wagner: Das Rheingold - "Entry of the Gods Into Valhalla"
Wagner: Lohengrin - "Einleitung" excerpt
Berlioz: Hungarian March
Berlioz: Symhonie Fantastique (tuba part begins on p. 11)
Mahler: Symphony No. 1 - 3rd movement (tuba solo p. 22)
Prokofiev: Symphony No. 5
Respighi: Fountains of Rome (tuba part pages 7-8)
Wagner: Die Meistersinger (tuba part begins on p. 28)
Wagner: Ride of the Valkyries (tuba excerpt p. 72)