Successfully auditioning for an orchestra is one of the hardest challenges that musicians face. We explain how the process ...

The excerpts listed below are the result of William Stanley’s many years’ gathering solo passages from orchestral repertoire (with a nod to opera, chamber and brass ensemble) that he has played, ...

In his Symphony Ravi Shankar explores this passion using the traditional instruments of a large Western orchestra. The sitar and orchestra play melodies based on a raga (a pattern or selection of ...

10-15 minutes of music (solo, excerpts and/or etudes). Pre-screening material can be from the live audition lists, or material of equivalent difficulty. Solo work(s) Two contrasting etudes from the ...