Audition Instructions
Video Audition Instructions:
For New Students: Please record an admission audition video. Upon admission to M&M Camp, you will be sent further instructions on recording a seating audition.
All players must record a video of themselves playing a 2 or 3 octave major or minor scale at a minimum of quarter note = 80. Play any piece where you are featured as the soloist. Please make sure to read through the entire admission audition checklist before submitting your audition video! Upload your .mov or .mp4 video file to the Google Form by clicking on "Upload Admission Audition Video Here."
For Returning Students: Only record a seating audition.
All players must record a video of themselves playing a 2 or 3 octave major and minor scale as defined below. Find your excerpts on the "Download Excerpts Here" button below. Please make sure to read through the entire checklist before submitting your audition video! Upload your .mov or .mp4 video file to the Google Form by clicking on "Upload Seating Audition Video Here."
Admission Audition Video Guidelines:
1. Are you within the frame of the video? (Your entire body and instrument are visible.)
2. Have you done a test recording to make sure the audio is clear? (No background noises)
3. Have you clearly introduced yourself? (Stated your name, your age, and instrument?)
4. Did you play your scale first at the appropriate tempo? (Major or minor?)
5. Did you play your solo piece to the best of your ability?
6. Are your intro, scales, and solos in the same video? (They can be edited together.)
7. Have you titled your audition video in this format "Last, First_Admission Audition"?
8. Have you uploaded the correct video?
All Admission Audition Videos Due on Case-by-Case Basis
2027 Seating Audition Video Guidelines:
1. Are you within the frame of the video? (Your entire body and instrument are visible.)
2. Have you done a test recording to make sure the audio is clear? (No background noises)
3. Have you clearly introduced yourself? (Stated your name, your age, and instrument?)
4. Did you play your scales first at the appropriate tempo? (Major and minor?)
5. Did you play all of your excerpt(s) at an appropriate tempo?
6. Are your intro, scales, and excerpts in the same video? (They can be edited together.)
7. Have you titled your audition video in this format "Last, First_Seating Audition"?
8. Have you uploaded the correct video?
Seating Audition Videos Due: May 1st at 11:59PM
Scales
(All Students)
D Major scale in as many octaves as comfortable
First in Quarter notes, then eighth notes, then sixteenth notes. Quarter note = 60
Violin Excerpt
Mozart Marriage of Figaro, Overture
Half Note = 120
Viola Excerpt
Mozart Marriage of Figaro, Overture
*Prepare both bracketed sections*
Half Note = 120
Cello/Bass Excerpt
Mozart Marriage of Figaro, Overture
*Prepare both bracketed sections*
Half Note = 120
Bassoon Excerpts
Excerpt #1: Mozart Symphony No. 41, 4th mvt. Molto Allegro
Half note = 120
Excerpt #2: Rimsky-Korsakov Scheherazade, Andantino
Eighth Note = 96
Clarinet Excerpts
Excerpt #1: Beethoven - Symphony No.6,
Andante molto moto
Dotted Quarter Note = 50
Excerpt #2: Rhapsody In Blue by Geo Gershwin, molto moderato
Flute Excerpt
Excerpt #1: Beethoven Leonore No. 3
Half Note = 108
Excerpt #2: Bizet Carmen, Andantine quasi Allegretto
Quarter Note = 72
French Horn Excerpts
Excerpt #1: Mozart Horn Concerto No. 4 in Eb Major,
Dotted Quarter Note = 112
Excerpt #2: Brahms Symphony No. 1, 2nd Movement, Andante Sostenuto
Quarter Note = 60
Oboe
Excerpts
Excerpt #1: Bach's Brandenburg Concerto No. 1, Adagio
Eighth Note = 60
Excerpt #2: Brahms - Symphony No. 2 in D Major, 3rd Mvt, Allegretto grazioso
Quarter Note = 92
Timpani
Excerpt
Excerpt #1: Mozart The Magic Flute Overture
Half Note = 76
Excerpt #2: Beethoven Symphony No. 5, End of 3rd, Beginning of 4th Mvt
Dotted Half Note = 88
Trumpet Excerpt
Excerpt #1: Beethoven Leonore Overture No. 3
Quarter Note = 100
Excerpt #2: Maurice Ravel Tableaux d'une Exposition, Promenade
Quarter Note = 84