How to Apply to the University of Arizona
Undergraduate Admissions
Graduate Admissions
OBOE AUDITION REPERTOIRE
Undergraduate applicants should prepare the following:
- All major and minor scales over the full range of the instrument.
- Two contrasting études from the Barret Oboe Method and/or Ferling 48 Etudes.
- One solo from the repertoire list below (or a work of comparable difficulty). Single movements are acceptable.
- Jenni Brandon, Wood Song
- Benjamin Britten, Six Metamorphoses after Ovid
- Madeleine Dring, Danza Gaya
- Ruth Gipps, The Piper of Dreams
- G.F. Handel, Oboe Sonata in C minor HWV 366
- Ulysses Kay, Suite in B
- Alessandro Marcello, Oboe Concerto in D minor
- Alyssa Morris, Four Personalities
- Carl Nielsen, Two Fantasy Pieces
- Émile Paladilhe, Solo de Concert
- Camille Saint-Saëns, Oboe Sonata
- William Grant Still, Incantation and Dance
- Althea Talbot-Howard, Door of No Return
- G.P. Telemann, Oboe Sonata in A minor TWV 41:a3
Graduate applicants should prepare the following:
- All major and minor scales over the full range of the instrument.
- Two contrasting études from the Barret Oboe Method and/or Ferling 48 Etudes.
- Two solos from the standard repertoire, drawn from two different historical periods. Single movements are acceptable.
- Four standard orchestral excerpts.
For more information, please contact Dr. Sara Fraker at sarafraker@arizona.edu
