High School Solo Competition

Eligibility

Students entering this competition must be currently enrolled in high school (grades 9–12) or in a home-schooling program and under the age of 19 as of March 8, 2013. Competing students must not have performed professionally under full-time contract, or have been previously offered such employment by virtue of winning a full-time professional audition.

Rules

All entrants will perform one selection from the indicated repertoire. Each entrant must be accompanied by a pianist. (Specify on the registration form whether you will use bring you own accompanist or need one provided.) There is a $10 additional charge for using a workshop pianist and students should plan on rehearsing with the pianist the day before the competition (the afternoon or evening of Friday, March 8). Students are also welcome to bring their own pianists; practice rooms will be available during the workshop.

Approximate times of performance will be communicated either by phone or e-mail to entrants in mid-February. Entrants should be at the audition venue warmed up and ready to play 10 minutes in advance of their scheduled times.

The judges reserve the right not to choose a winner, should the quality of performances merit. The winner of the competition will be offered the opportunity to perform at the Final Concert on Sunday, March 10.

Students may sit or stand to perform. Students are not required to perform from memory. However, students using music must perform from legal printed copies: no photocopies or scanned copies of music are permitted. Students need not supply judges with score copies.

Parents or guardians may sit in the room during their student’s performance, but may not stay for the performances of other students. The general public will not be invited to observe this competition.

Prepare one solo from the following list. Please also note the cuts indicated in the piano passages, if indicated, in the interests of scheduling.

Repertoire

W.A. Mozart. Concerto No. 3 in E-flat Major, K. 447, mvt. 1.

Franz Strauss. Nocturno, Op. 7.

Richard Strauss. Concerto No. 1 in E-flat Major, Op. 11, mvt. 1.

(After the opening fanfare, the pianist will begin nine measures before the measure of the next solo entrance. All other tutti sections as printed. The tutti at the end of the movement after the solo has ended should be abbreviated.)

College Solo Competition

Eligibility

Students entering this competition must be enrolled at a college or university as an undergraduate or graduate student and must be under the age of 29 as of March 8, 2013. Competing students must not have performed professionally under full-time contract, or have been previously offered such employment by virtue of winning a full-time professional audition.

Rules

The first round of the competition requires unaccompanied repertoire; a workshop accompanist will be assigned for those performing in the final solo round. Rehearsal times with a pianist for the final round will be assigned after the first round has ended. There will be no accompanist fee for students who advance to the final round.

The first round audition slots will be assigned via e-mail or phone in mid- to late-February, and will be scheduled the morning of Friday, March 8. Performance order for the final round will be determined after the first round has ended. The final round itself will occur on Saturday, March 9.

The judges reserve the right not to choose a winner, should the quality of performances merit. The winner of the competition will be offered the opportunity to perform at the Final Concert on Sunday, March 10.

Students may stand or sit to perform. Students are not required to perform from memory. However, students using music must perform from legal printed copies: no photocopies or scanned copies of music are permitted. Students need not supply judges with score copies.

The first round is closed to the public, but the second round will be open for public viewing.

Choose one work for each round from the following lists.

Round One Repertoire

• James Naigus. Primary Ignition.

This work was commissioned for the 2013 Southeast Horn Workshop and is available from RM Williams Publishing.

Round Two Repertoire

• Ludwig van Beethoven. Sonata, Op. 17, mvt. 1.
• Paul Dukas. Villanelle.
• W.A. Mozart. Concerto No. 4 in E-flat Major, K. 495, mvt. 1.
• Robert Schumann. Adagio and Allegro.

Mock Orchestral Auditions

Eligibility

Students entering this competition must satisfy the requirements for either the high school or college solo competition and must be under the age of 29 as of March 8, 2013. Competing students must not have performed professionally under full-time contract, or have been previously offered such employment by virtue of winning a full-time professional audition. Competing students may not be under full-time contract at a university or college; however, competitors who are receiving graduate assistantships for teaching may participate.

Rules

The first round audition slots will be assigned via e-mail or phone in late February and will generally be scheduled in the morning on Friday, March 8. Performance order for the final round will be determined once the first round has ended and the final round itself will be scheduled in the afternoon of Friday, March 8, depending on the number of finalists.

The judges reserve the right not to choose a winner, should the quality of performances merit. The winners of the auditions will be recognized at the Final Concert on Sunday, March 10.

During the audition, students will conform to the excerpted parts available on the stand, which will be taken directly from the orchestral parts for the indicated works.

In the first round, the performers will be separated from the judges by a screen. The second round will not be screened. The general public will not be invited to observe this competition.

Each entrant should prepare all of the excerpts from either the high horn or low horn audition list.

High Horn Repertoire

J.S. Bach. Brandenburg Concerto No. 1.

Trio II (all), Horn 1.

Ludwig van Beethoven. Symphony No. 7, Op. 92.

Mvt. 1, mm. 86–110, Horn 1.

Antonín Dvořák. Symphony No. 9 “From the New World,” B. 178.

Mvt. 1, mm. 16–27, Horn 3.

Gustav Mahler. Symphony No. 1 “Titan.”

Mvt. 1, 4 bars before rehearsal 2 through rehearsal 3, Horn 1; and mvt. 4, rehearsal 56 through rehearsal 59, Horn 1.

W.A. Mozart. Symphony No. 40, K. 550.

Mvt. 3, mm. 68–78, Horn 1.

Richard Strauss. Till Eulenspiegels lustige Streiche, Op. 28.

Mm. 6–20, Horn 1.

Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky, Symphony No. 5, Op. 64.

Mvt. 2 opening solo, mm. 8–28, Horn 1.

Richard Wagner. Götterdämmerung, Act 1.

“Short Call,” Horn 1.

Low Horn Repertoire

J.S. Bach. Brandenburg Concerto No. 1.

Trio II (all), Horn 2.

Ludwig van Beethoven. Overture to Fidelio, Op. 72.

Mm. 47–55, Horn 2.

Ludwig van Beethoven. Symphony No. 8, Op. 93.

Mvt. 3, mm. 46–78, Horn 2.

Ludwig van Beethoven. Symphony No. 9, Op. 125.

Mvt. 3, mm. 82–99, Horn 4.

Johannes Brahms. Variations on a Theme by Haydn.

Variation 6, Horn 2.

Gustav Mahler. Symphony No. 1 “Titan.”

Mvt. 3, rehearsal 13 to rehearsal 15, Horn 4.

Dmitri Shostakovich, Symphony No. 5, Op. 47.

Mvt. 1, rehearsal 17 to rehearsal 20, Horn 4.

Richard Strauss, Don Quixote, Op. 35.

Variation 7 (all), Horn 2.

Richard Wagner, Prelude to Das Rheingold.

Mm. 29–59, Horn 8.

Quartet Competition

Eligibility

Students entering this competition must be enrolled at a college or university as undergraduate students and must be under the age of 29 as of March 8, 2013. Competing students must not have performed professionally under full-time contract, or have been previously offered such employment by virtue of winning a full-time professional audition. All four performers in the quartet must register for the workshop and individually pay the competition fee.

Rules

The audition slots will be assigned via e-mail or phone in February.

The judges reserve the right not to choose a winner, should the quality of performances merit. The winners of the competition will be offered the opportunity to perform at the Final Concert on Sunday, March 10.

Quartets may sit or stand to perform. Quartets are not required to perform from memory. However, students using music must perform from legal printed copies: no photocopies or scanned copies of music are permitted. Each quartet must supply the judges with one score of each piece performed.

The general public will not be invited to observe this competition.

Repertoire

Each quartet may prepare no more than 15 minutes of music, including changing time between movements and pieces. Judges may stop the performance if and when the time of performances reaches 15 minutes. Each quartet must, within this time slot, perform two works or movements of contrasting style. Only one of those pieces/movements may be an existing transcription, while the other must be a work originally composed for horn quartet. The group may instead perform two contrasting movements or works composed for horn quartet (i.e., not transcriptions).