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GRADUATE AUDITIONS

Due to the safety precautions due to COVID-19, auditions this year will be handled in a virtual format. For more information about this format, and to apply please visit the School of Music website.

Campus Invite Graduate Auditions will take place on the following days:

Friday - January 15th, 2021

Saturday - January 16, 2021

Fall 2021 - TROMBONE STUDIO ASSISTANTSHIP

TENOR TROMBONE
- MM or DMA

Full Tuition Waiver & Annual Stipend
- MM - $11,000
- DMA - $11,700

Duties Include:
- Trombonist with Bulldog Brass Society | Coached by Prof. Phil Smith
- Studio Instruction
  - Community Music School
  - Studio TA
- Leadership Opportunities
  - Lead Trombone Choir
  - Chamber Coaching
  - Fundamentals Sessions & Group Warmups
  - Studio Seminars
- Studio Event Planning & Logistics
  - Georgia Trombone Summit
  - Studio & GTS Social Media Presence

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Assistantships for Tenor & Bass Trombonists (MM & DMA) are also available through the School of Music & Graduate College. Recipients for these competitive awards are selected based on academic record, skill set, and needs within the School of Music.

Graduate Applications need to be completed by December 1, 2020 for optimal consideration for assistantships and admission to the Fall 2021 semester.

Preliminary Pre-Screened Audition. Applicants need to upload recordings to Acceptd no later than December 1, 2020.

Recordings must include selections from the etudes, solos, and excerpts provided below. Solo repertoire should be recorded without piano. No editing within a piece, but it is not necessary to record all material in one take.

Applicants may choose from the following repertoire:

Tenor Trombone:

Choose 1 Etude:

Bitsch: 15 Rhythmic Etude No. 7

Bordogni: Vocalise No. 61

Choose 1 Solo:

Martin: Ballade

Tomasi: Concerto, m. 1

Choose 3 Excerpts:

Mahler: Symphony No. 3, mvt. 1 (first solo)

Ravel: Bolero (solo)

Rossini: William Tell (storm scene)

Wagner: Ride of the Valkyries (minor and major)

Bass Trombone:

Choose 1 Etude:

Bordogni: Vocalise No. 61 (8vb)

Maenz: Zwanzig Studien No. 2

Choose 1 Solo:

Bozza: New Orleans

Lebedev: Concerto in One Movement

Choose 3 Excerpts:

Haydn - Achieved is Thy Glorious Work from Die Schöpfung (beginning to C)

Kodaly - The Battle & Defeat of Napoleon from Hary Janos Suite (5 to long pause)

Rossini - William Tell (storm scene)

Wagner - Entrance of the Gods into Valhalla from Das Rheingold (80 to the end)

Applicants will be selected from the pre-screened recordings to play a virtual live audition for the Brass Faculty via Zoom early in 2021(see above for possible dates). For the live audition, candidates should prepare new repertoire (2 contrasting solo selections & excerpts). There will also be sight-reading.

Live accompaniment at the virtual audition is not required. For more information regarding the application process, please contact Dr. Bynum.

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