Undergraduate:

• Mallet percussion
  • A two-mallet piece (your choice)
  • A four-mallet piece (your choice)
• Snare drum
  • Etude: Cirone or Delecluse
• Timpani
  • Etude: Hochrainer (preferred), Vic Firth, or Goodman

Graduate:

• Mallet percussion
  • A two-mallet piece (your choice)
  • A four-mallet piece (your choice)
• Snare drum
  • Etude: Delecluse
  • Lieutenant Kijé (excerpt)
  • Capriccio espagnol — Alborada (excerpt)
• Timpani
  • Etude: Hochrainer (preferred), Vic Firth, Goodman
  • Beethoven Symphony No. 9 (excerpt — mvt. 1 coda)
  • Hindemith Symphonic Metamorphosis (excerpt)
  • Tchaikovsky Symphony No. 4 (excerpt)

• Marimba
  • Three pieces of contrasting styles

Timpani (graduate only)

Students wishing to major in timpani must perform the graduate percussion audition repertoire as outlined in the percussion requirements PLUS:

1. An advanced-level timpani solo (one movement) or advanced étude
2. Complete Beethoven Symphonies
3. Complete Brahms Symphonies
4. Stravinsky Rite of Spring
5. Sight-reading

Please note: If you plan to perform a piece that requires playing on the "butts" of the timpani mallets (back-end of the timpani mallet) please have a suitable alternative: moleskin or felt on the butt-end of the mallet. We will not allow anyone to play with butt-ends of mallets on our timpani heads. Any piece that involves "playing on the timpani bowl" will also not be allowed.