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Orchestra Audition Requirements

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Course Offerings

  • YPAS Philharmonia (auditioned, advanced large ensemble)



  • Manual Concert Orchestra (auditioned, intermediate large ensemble)


  • Chamber Strings (for 10-12th grade YPAS Orchestra majors)


  • String Techniques (for 9th and transfer YPAS Orchestra majors)


  • Music Electives, including Music Theory I, and AP Music Theory


All Orchestra applicants should be prepared to play:

1.

The following major scale(s), ascending and descending, in the suggested key, rhythms and tempos;


2.

An orchestral excerpt (written for their specific instrument); 


3.

One solo piece of their choice (written for their specific instrument - selections from a concerto would be an excellent choice, for example);

4.

One short musical piece to sight-read.


The specific scales and orchestral excerpts are divided by instrument

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