Large Ensemble Placement Auditions

Thank you for your interest in UGA large ensemble auditions. Details about spring auditions are below. If you do not see your audition materials here, please reach out to your instructor directly.

SCHEDULE AND EXCERPTS BY INSTRUMENT

Brass

• Trumpet: Sunday, January 5 from 1pm-3:30pm in the Orchestra Room
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• Horn: Recorded Audition - Due by January 3, 2025 at noon.
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• Tuba: Recorded Audition - Due by January 4, 2025 at 11:59 p.m.
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• Euphonium: Recorded Audition - Due by January 4, 2025 at 11:59 p.m.
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• Tenor Trombone: Sunday, January 5, 2025 in the Choral Suite
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• Bass Trombone: Sunday, January 5, 2025 in the Choral Suite
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Percussion

• Percussion: 

Strings

• Viola: UGASO Viola Seating Auditions
  • Day: Sunday January 5, 2025 
  • Time: 2-4pm, please arrive at 2pm
  • Place: Room 521
  • Excerpts from Mahler 2, 1st movement. 
    • 1. 5 after [1] to 2 before [2]
    • 2. 3 after [9] to 4 before [10]
    • 3. [11] to 2 before [13]
    • 4. 2 before [21] to 3 after [22]
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• Violin: Monday, January 6 starting at 6 p.m. - Room 210
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• Cello: Monday, January 6 at 5:30 p.m. - Band Room
  • Click here for "Bruckner - Symphony No. 7, Mvt. 1, mm. 1-23"
  • Click here for "Smetana - Overture to The Bartered Bride, Beginning to five bars after A"
• Double Bass: Monday, January 6 at 6 p.m. - Band Room

Woodwinds

• Oboe:
• Clarinet: 
• Bassoon: Tuesday, December 3 starting at 1:45 p.m. - Location TBD
  • All three selections are from Hector Berlioz's Symphonie Fantastique.
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• Saxophone: 
• Flute: