Competitions

The 2023 Southeast Horn Workshop offers the following competitions:

  1. Solo competitions – high school or college
  2. Mock orchestral auditions – high horn or low horn
  3. Horn quartet competition
  4. Horn Choir competition

In addition to workshop registration fees, competition fees are $10 for each individual competition. The fee to compete in the quartet competition is $40 per quartet. Each quartet only needs to pay this fee one time. There is no fee for the horn choir competition.

Common rules for all competitions

  • Competitors 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.
  • Performers may stand or sit to perform. Students are not required to perform from memory.
  • The judges reserve the right not to choose a winner, should the quality of performances merit. The winners of each competition will be recognized at the final concert on Sunday, March 19.
  • The first rounds are closed to the public, but subsequent rounds may be open for public viewing.

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 younger than 19 years old on March 17, 2023.

Rules

  • Students must perform from legally acquired music.
  • There is no requirement for an accompanist for the high school solo competition.
  • 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.
  • The winner of this competition will be invited to play in a master class with Bob Reardon.
  • Choose one work for each round from the following lists.

Repertoire

  • Wolfgang A. Mozart, Horn Concerto No. 2, K. 417. Mvts. 1 & 2 OR 1 & 3.
  • Wolfgang A. Mozart, Horn Concerto No. 3, K. 447. Mvts. 1 & 2 OR 1 & 3.
  • Richard Strauss, Horn Concerto No. 1. Mvts. 1 & 2 OR 2 & 3.
  • Camille Saint-Saëns, Morceau de Concert, op. 94. Mvts. 1 & 2 OR 2 & 3.

College Solo Competition

Eligibility

Students entering this competition must be enrolled at a college or university as undergraduate or graduate students, and must not currently hold a teaching position at a college or university (graduate assistantships excepted).

Rules

  • The preliminary round will be performed unaccompanied.
  • For the final round, piano accompaniment is required. A UCF staff accompanist will be provided.
  • Students must perform from legally acquired music.
  • The winner of this competition may be invited to play in a master class.
  • Choose one work for each round from the following lists.

Repertoire

Preliminary round

  • Alice Gomez, La Calavera.
  • Matt Haislip, Perelandra.
  • Alexis Carrier, The Final Battle Cry.
  • Lydia Busler, Appalachia.
  • Jeff Agrell, Romp. (Edited 10/27/2022)

Final round

Gina Gillie, Sonata for horn and piano.
Mvt. 1.
Laurence Lowe, Sonata No. 1 for horn and piano.
Mvt. 3.
Jane Vignery, Sonata for horn and piano, Op. 7.
Mvt. 1.

Mock Orchestral Auditions

Eligibility

Students entering this competition must satisfy the requirements for either the high school or college solo competition.

Rules

  • Auditions will take place the morning of Friday, March 17.
  • 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.
  • Music can be found on hornsociety.org, hornrep.com, hornoperaproject.org, or orchestraexcerpts.com.
  • Performers will be separated from the judges by a screen.
  • Each entrant should prepare all of the excerpts from either the high horn or low horn audition list.
  • The winners of this competition will be invited to play in a master class.

High Horn Repertoire

(First horn parts, unless otherwise noted.)

Ludwig van Beethoven, Symphony No. 7, Op. 92.
Mvt. 1, mm. 84–101 (25 before [C]–[C]).
Leonard Bernstein, Overture to Candide.
Mm. 178–202.
Gustav Mahler, Symphony No. 1.
Mvt. 3, mm. 113–132 (4 after [13]–[15]).
Felix Mendelssohn, Symphony No. 3.
Mvt. 2, mm. 33–67, Horn 3.
Richard Strauss, Till Eulenspiegels Lustige Streiche, Op. 28.
Mm. 6–20, Horn 1.
19 mm. after [28] – 1 m. before [30], Horn 3.
Maurice Ravel, Pavane pour une infante défunte.
Opening solo: beginning to m. 11.
Richard Wagner, Lohengrin Suite.
Act III, Prelude. Beginning to m. 52 (3 mm. after [3]).

Low Horn Repertoire

Ludwig van Beethoven, Symphony No. 3, Op. 55.
Mvt. 3 Trio, mm.171–202, Horn 2.
Ludwig van Beethoven, Symphony No. 9, Op. 125.
Mvt. 3, pick up to m. 83 – m. 100, Horn 4.
Gustav Mahler, Symphony No. 1.
Mvt. 3, mm. 113–132 (4 after [13] – [15]), Horn 2.
Giacomo Puccini, Tosca.
Act III, mm. 1–17, (all parts are unison).
Camille Saint-Saëns, Symphony No. 3, Op. 78.
Mvt. 1, 4 before [N] – 16 after [N], Horn 4.
Dmitri Shostakovich, Symphony No. 5, Op. 47.
Mvt. 1, [17]–[21], Horn 4.
Richard Strauss, Don Quixote.
Variation 8, 6 mm. before [59] – 8 mm. after [62], Horn 4.

Quartet Competition

Eligibility

Students or avocational players may compete in the quartet competition.

Rules

  • Each quartet must supply the judges with two photocopied scores of each piece performed.

Repertoire

Each quartet may prepare no more than 15 minutes of music, including changing time between movements and pieces. Repertoire chosen must include at least one composer (or arranger) of an underrepresented group, such as women, persons of African or indigenous North or South American descent, or persons of Hispanic or Latinx ethnicity.

Horn Choir Competition

There is no additional fee to participate in the horn choir competition. All members of the ensemble must be registered for the workshop.

Rules

  • The Horn Choir competition will be held in two rounds.
  • The first round will be a recording submission of musical selection(s) 12–15 minutes in length. Please email submissions to Benjamin Lieser by March 1. The submissions will be ranked by a panel of judges. Of these submissions, four groups will be selected to compete in the final round, which will be live and in person at UCF.
  • Each ensemble may have no more than two people on a part. Personnel substitutions are allowed as needed.
  • The final round must consist of work(s) at least 10 minutes in length, but not exceeding 15 minutes, including the time it takes between movements and setup, etc. The winning group will have the opportunity to perform on the final concert, Sunday, March 19th!