The following audition materials are listed as guides (not requirements) in each major field. Applicants may also be asked to perform at sight a composition selected by the examination committee. Composition majors, in addition to submitting written materials, are expected to have a reasonable level of proficiency in a performance area and in music theory.


BRASS INSTRUMENTS

All instruments: Major and minor scales

Trumpet

Arban Trumpet Method or any of the Characteristic Studies

One of the following, all movements:

• a) Hummel Trumpet Concerto
  
• b) Haydn Trumpet Concerto
  
• c) Hindemith Sonata for Trumpet and Piano, or a solo of comparable difficulty
  

Two excerpts from the standard orchestral audition literature

Transpositions at sight

Requirements for Yong Siew Toh Conservatory of Music.... Train hard!!