This section includes Band & Orchestra excerpts that are used either for pre-screening purposes or during a live audition. These excerpts are almost always played on Bb or C trumpet, with a few exceptions.

Alphabetical by composer. Click excerpts to enlarge.

BAND EXCERPTS:                                                 

Barber - Commando March

Bernstein - Symphonic Dances from “West Side Story”

Copland - An Outdoor Overture

Copland - “Hoe Down” from Rodeo

Glinka - Russlan & Ludmilla

Hanssen - Valdres

Hindemith- Symphony in Bb

Ives - Variations on America

Persichetti - Divertimento for Band

Prokofiev - March, Op.99

Rimsky-Korsakov - Procession of the Nobles

Shostakovich - Festive Overture, trans. Hunsberger

Smith - Festival Variations

Stravinsky - L’Histoire Du Soldat (A Soldier’s Tale)

Tchaikovsky - Capriccio Italien, trans. Winterbottom

Tchaikovsky - Symphony No. 4

Williams - Summon the Heroes

Vaughn-Williams - Toccata Marziale

ORCHESTRAL EXCERPTS:

Gershwin - An American in Paris

Mahler - Symphony No. 5

Mussorgsky - Pictures at an Exhibition

Ravel - Piano Concerto in G

Respighi - Pines of Rome

Stravinsky - Petroushka (1947)

Tchaikovsky - “Neapolitan Dance” from Swan Lake