Emily Beynon
Saturday 2nd April, 10:00
Preparing for auditions: orchestral excerpts
For students emerging from music college and conservatoire the orchestral audition can be one of the most nerve-racking prospects – and especially the standard requirement to prepare extracts from the orchestral literature.
In this masterclass Emily Beynon guided three students through eight of the most commonly tested orchestral excerpts, indicating both their hidden pitfalls and their expressive potential.
Applicants prepared the parts for the following works:
Beethoven Leonore Overture no. 3
Bizet Entr’acte from Carmen
Brahms Symphony No. 4
Debussy Prélude à l’après-midi d’un faune
Dvorak Symphony No. 8
Mendelssohn Scherzo from A Midsummer Night’s Dream
Ravel Daphnis et Chloé
Rossini William Tell Overture
These extracts are available in:
Jeanne Baxtresser (ed.), Orchestral Excerpts for Flute (Bryn Mawr: Theodore Presser, 1995)
Trevor Wye and Patricia Morris (eds.), The Orchestral Flute Practice Book 1 and The Orchestral Flute Practice Book 2 (London: Novello, 1998)
