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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