The Adolph “Bud” Herseth Scholarship

Pre-screening Round (Video Submission: 10 minutes maximum)

Repertoire requirements:

1. Prepare one etude of your choice from the following:
   • Bordogni (Rochut), Melodious Etudes, Volume 1 or 2 (may play as written or down an octave)
   • Tyrell, 40 Advanced Studies for B-flat Bass
   • Grigoriev, 24 Studies
   • Lew Gillis, 20 Etudes for Bass Trombone
2. Prepare one solo work of your choice that includes accompaniment, or one movement from a concerto or sonata for bass trombone.

Memorization required? No

Accompaniment required? Please record without accompaniment.

Final Round (In-person at Luther College: 10 minutes maximum)

Repertoire requirements:

1. Perform the solo work (or concerto/sonata movement) you submitted in your video. Piano accompaniment provided.
2. Perform a 2nd solo work from the following options (no accompaniment provided):
   • Capriccio by Frank Gulino (beginning-M);
   • Allegro Maestoso by Jan Koetsier;
   • Concerto in One Movement by A. Lebedev (beginning to the start of the cadenza);
   • Sonata by Patrick McCarty (Movement III);
   • Fancy Free by Clay Smith – arr. Blair Bollinger
   • Capriccio by Verhelst Steven
   • Concertino by Ernst Sachse (beginning -119)

Memorization required? No

Accompaniment required? Yes, provided during the audition day.

Total amount of music should not exceed 10 minutes.

Pre-screening Round (Video Submission: 10 minutes maximum)

Repertoire requirements:

1. A solo etude from:
   • Weissenborn, 50 Advanced Studies
   • Milde, Studies in Scale or Concert Studies
   • Orefici, Melodic Studies or similar
2. Two contrasting movements from a concerto (excerpts are fine), such as:
   • Mozart, Bassoon Concerto in Bb Major, K 191 
   • Weber, Bassoon Concerto in F Major 
   • Vivaldi, Bassoon Concerto in a minor, RV 497
   • Vivaldi, Bassoon Concerto in e minor, RV 484 

Memorization required? No

Accompaniment required?  Please record without accompaniment.

Final Round (In-person at Luther College: 10 minutes maximum)

Repertoire required:

1. A concerto movement you submitted in your video. Piano accompaniment provided.
2. One solo piece of your choosing that you did not submit in your video. No accompaniment provided.

Memorization required? No

Accompaniment required? Yes, provided during the audition day.

Total amount of music should not exceed 10 minutes.

Pre-screening Round (Video Submission: 10 minutes maximum)

Repertoire requirements:

1. A complete unaccompanied work or movement (may be Bach) in a tempo/style that contrasts with your concerto selection.
2. The first or final movement of a cello concerto – such as concerti by Haydn, Goltermann, Saint-Saëns, Lalo, Elgar, etc.

Memorization required? No

Accompaniment required? Please record without accompaniment.

Final Round (In-person at Luther College: 10 minutes maximum)

Repertoire requirements:

1. The accompanied solo piece you submitted for your video. Piano accompaniment provided.
2. A piece or single movement of your choice. Some examples might include cello sonata repertoire (i.e. Beethoven, Brahms), single movement pieces (i.e. Fauré, Elegie, Apres un Rěve; Popper, Hungarian Rhapsody). No accompaniment provided.

Memorization required? No

Accompaniment required? Yes, provided during the audition day.

Total amount of music should not exceed 10 minutes.

Pre-screening Round (Video Submission: 10 minutes maximum)

1. One etude (full length) that contrasts with your solo of choice. Possible examples may come from:
   1. Cyrille Rose, 32 Etudes
   2. Cyrille Rose, 40 Studies
   3. Himie Voxman, Selected Studies
2. One movement of a sonata or concerto of your choice (you may select excerpts in the interest of time). Possible examples may include:
   1. Any of the concerti by Carl Stamitz
   2. Caroline Schleicher Kraemer, Sonatina for Clarinet
   3. Concertino, Concerto No. 1 or Concerto No. 2 by Carl Maria von Weber
   4. Sonata by Alice Mary Smith

Memorization required? No

Accompaniment required? Please record without accompaniment.

Final Round (In-person at Luther College: 10 minutes maximum)

Repertoire required:

1. The sonata or concerto movement you submitted in your video that includes accompaniment. Piano accompaniment provided.
2. One accompanied or unaccompanied solo piece of your choosing that you did not submit in your video. No accompaniment provided. Suggestions for unaccompanied works include:
   1. Rhapsody for Clarinet by Willson Osborne
   2. Capriccio by Heinrich Sutermeister
   3. Arlequin by Louis Cahuzac
   4. Three Smiles for Tracy by Adolphus Hailstork
   5. Sonata by Germaine Tailleferre

Memorization required? No

Accompaniment required? Yes, provided during the audition day.

Total amount of music should not exceed 10 minutes.

Pre-screening Round (Video Submission: 10 minutes maximum)

Repertoire requirements:

1. A complete unaccompanied work or movement (may be Bach) in a tempo/style that contrasts with your concerto/sonata selection. If auditioning for jazz bass, you may prepare a jazz etude.
2. The first movement of a standard concerto/sonata OR a comparable solo piece in a tempo/style that contrasts with your unaccompanied selection. Examples include:
   • Concertos by G. Bottesini, A. Capuzzi, S. Koussevitzky, J.B. Vanhal
   • Sonatas by H. Eccles, A. Marcello, G.F. Telemann

Memorization required? No

Accompaniment required? Please record without accompaniment

Final Round (In-person at Luther College: 10 minutes maximum)

Repertoire requirements:

1. The accompanied solo piece you submitted for your video. Piano accompaniment provided.
2. A piece or single movement of your choice. If you are auditioning for jazz bass, be ready to walk a bass line and solo for two contrasting pieces; one of the pieces must be blues. No accompaniment provided.

Memorization required? No

Accompaniment required? Yes, provided during the audition day.

Total amount of music should not exceed 10 minutes.

Pre-screening Round (Video Submission: 10 minutes maximum)

Repertoire requirements:

1. One etude, in a tempo/style that contrasts with your solo selection (#2). Etudes should be selected from the following, or be of a similar level:
   1. Donjon, 8 Etudes de Salon
   2. J. Andersen, 26 Little Caprices, Op. 27
   3. H. Voxman, Selected Studies for Flute
2. One movement (or two, if time permits) from an accompanied solo piece OR concerto of your choice, in a tempo/style that contrasts with your etude selection. Examples include:
   1. Sonatas by Handel, J.S. Bach, Romance or Odelette by Saint-Saens, a movement from Suite de Trois Morceaux by Godard, etc.
   2. Concertos by Quantz, W.A. Mozart, Concertino by Chaminade, etc.

Memorization required? No

Accompaniment required? Please record without accompaniment.

Final Round (In-person at Luther College: 10 minutes maximum)

Repertoire requirements:

1. The piece you submitted in your video that includes accompaniment. Piano accompaniment provided.
2. One solo piece of your choosing that you did not submit in your video (may be an accompanied or unaccompanied piece). No accompaniment provided.

Memorization required? No

Accompaniment required? Yes, provided during the audition day.

Total amount of music should not exceed 10 minutes.

Pre-screening Round (Video Submission: 10 minutes maximum)

Repertoire required:

1. Perform two solo pieces, or two accompanied pieces, or one from each of the following categories:

Solo Guitar Suggestions

• Classical
  • J.S. Bach, “Bourree” from Lute Suite in E Minor, BWV 996
  • H. Villa-Lobos, Prelude No. 4
  • Brouwer, Simple Etudes, No. 1 & 2
• Jazz Chord Melodies
  • Howard, Fly Me To the Moon, arr. William Leavitt
  • Lennon & McCartney, Yesterday, arr. Mike Elliot
• Steel-string Fingerstyle Guitar
  • Tommy Emmanuel, It’s Never Too Late
  • Chet Atkins, Windy and Warm
  • Pete Huttlinger, The Water is Wide

Accompanied Piece Suggestions *Perform with a backing track, providing the melody, with improvisation and/or transcribed solo.

• Jazz
  • Charlie Parker, Billie’s Bounce
  • Sonny Rollins, Oleo
• Blues
  • Stevie Ray Vaughan, Riviera Paradise

• Rock
  • Eric Johnson, Cliffs of Dover
  • Joe Satriani, Flying in a Blue Dream

Memorization required? No

Accompaniment required? Yes, by a backing track if selections from the “accompanied pieces” category are chosen.

Final Round (In-person at Luther College: 10 minutes maximum)

Repertoire required: Be prepared to play the same material that you submitted for the preliminary round.

Memorization required? No

Accompaniment required? Yes, by a backing track if selections from the “accompanied pieces” category are chosen.

Pre-screening Round (Video Submission: 10 minutes maximum)

Repertoire requirements: Perform two contrasting solo pieces of your choosing.  Solo Harp Suggestions:

• Marcel Grandjany, Aria in Classic Style
• Alphonse Hasselmans, La Source
• Carlos Salzedo, Chanson dans la nuit
• G.F. Handel, Concerto in B-flat

Memorization required? For one of the solo pieces.

Accompaniment required? Please record without accompaniment.

Final Round (In-person at Luther College: 10 minutes maximum)

Repertoire requirements:

1. The memorized solo from your video.
2. Alborada del Gracioso, Maurice Ravel, beginning to number 3

Memorization required? Yes, for the solo

Accompaniment required? No

Total amount of music should not exceed 10 minutes.

Pre-screening Round (Video Submission: 10 minutes maximum)

Repertoire requirements:

1. Chromatic scale
   • Demonstrate comfortable range capabilities and clean technique.
   • Articulation is at the performer’s discretion.
2. Maxime-Alphonse, 200 New Etudes, volume 3, Etude no. 1 or 6
3. One of the following solos:
   • W. A. Mozart, Concerto in Eb, KV447, mvt. 3
   • Barbara York, Sonata for Horn and Piano, mvt. 1

Memorization required? No

Accompaniment required? Please record without accompaniment.

Final Round (In-person at Luther College: 10 minutes maximum)

Repertoire required:

1. One concerto or sonata movement you submitted in your video that requires accompaniment. Piano accompaniment provided.
2. One movement from one of the following (no accompaniment provided):
   • Reinhold Gliere, Concerto in Bb major, op. 91, mvt. I, measures 1-170
   • Paul Hindemith, Sonate, op. 39, mvt. I
   • Gordon Jacob, Concerto for Horn and Strings, mvt. 1

Memorization required? No

Accompaniment required? Yes, provided during the audition day.

Total amount of music should not exceed 10 minutes.

Pre-screening Round (Video Submission: 10 minutes maximum)

Repertoire requirements:

1. One etude, in a tempo/style that contrasts with your solo selection (#2). Etudes should be selected from the following, or be of a similar level:
   • W. Ferling, 48 Famous Studies
   • A.M.R. Barret, Oboe Method 
   • H. Voxman, Selected Studies
2. One movement (or two, if time permits) from a sonata OR concerto of your choice, in a tempo/style that contrasts with your etude selection. Examples include:
   • Sonatas by G.F. Handel, C. Saint-Saëns, P. Hindemith, F. Poulenc, etc.
   • Concertos by A. Marcello, W.A. Mozart, V. Bellini, R. Vaughan Williams, etc.

Memorization required? No

Accompaniment required? Please record without accompaniment.

Final Round (In-person at Luther College: 10 minutes maximum)

Repertoire requirements:

1. The piece you submitted in your video that includes accompaniment. Piano accompaniment provided.
2. One solo piece of your choosing that you did not submit in your video (may be an accompanied or unaccompanied piece). No accompaniment provided.

Memorization required? No

Accompaniment required? Yes, provided during the audition day.

Total amount of music should not exceed 10 minutes.

Pre-screening Round (Video Submission: 10 minutes maximum)

Repertoire required:

1. A major work of J.S. Bach (prelude and fugue, trio sonata movement, or large-scale chorale setting, i.e. Leipzig Autograph or Schübler Chorale).
2. An additional piece from the organ literature written/published during or after the Nineteenth century.

Memorization required? No

Final Round (In-person at Luther College: 10 minutes maximum)

Repertoire required: Repertoire requirements:

1. One piece you submitted for your video.
2. One piece of your choosing that you did not submit in your video.

Memorization required? No

Pre-screening Round (Video Submission: 10 minutes maximum)

Repertoire requirements:

1. Mallet Percussion Solo Prepare a solo for two or four mallets. The selection may be accompanied or unaccompanied and should demonstrate both technical skill and musicality.
2. Battery Percussion Solo Prepare one solo on any of the following: snare drum, timpani, drum set, or multiple percussion. The selection may be accompanied or unaccompanied and should demonstrate both technical skill and musicality.

Suggested repertoire includes works by (or of similar level to):

• Mallet Percussion: Keiko Abe, J.S. Bach, Gary Burton, Michael Burritt, Paul Creston, Eric Ewazen, Mark Ford, David Gillingham, Toshiro Mayuzumi, Emmanuel Séjourné, David Smadbeck, Ivan Trevino
• Snare Drum: Anthony Cirone, Jacques Delécluse, Alexej Gerassimez, John Pratt, Mitchell Peters
• Timpani: John Beck, John Bergamo, Elliott Carter, Mitchell Peters, John Willmarth
• Multiple Percussion: David Hollinden, Alan Keown, Darius Milhaud, William Kraft, Eckhard Kopetzki
• Drum Set: Art Blakey, Jimmy Cobb, Kenny Clarke, Chad Floyd, Jeff Hamilton, Elvin Jones, Frank Malabe, Rande Sanderbeck, David Schmalenberger

Memorization required? No

Accompaniment required? Please record without accompaniment.

Final Round (In-person at Luther College: 10 minutes maximum)

Repertoire requirements: Perform both pieces submitted in your video audition.

Memorization required? No

Accompaniment will be provided during the audition day as needed.

Total amount of music should not exceed 10 minutes.

Pre-screening Round (Video Submission: 10 minutes maximum)

Repertoire requirements:

1. First movement of a sonata by Haydn, Mozart, Beethoven, or Schubert (excerpts are fine).
2. One additional piece from piano literature of these eras:

• • Baroque
  • Romantic
  • Impressionistic
  • Twentieth Century

Memorization preferred.

Final Round (In-person at Luther College: 10 minutes maximum)

Repertoire requirements:

1. One piece you submitted for your video.
2. One piece of your choosing that you did not submit in your video.

Memorization required for both selections.

Pre-screening Round (Video Submission: 10 minutes maximum)

Repertoire requirements:

1. One unaccompanied piece, such as:
   • E. Bozza, Improvisation and Caprice
   • E. Bozza, Piece Breve
2. One accompanied piece/movement, such as:
   • any accompanied piece by Pierre Max Dubois or Bernhard Heiden

Memorization required? No

Accompaniment required?  Please record without accompaniment.

Final Round (In-person at Luther College: 10 minutes maximum)

Repertoire requirements:

1. One piece you submitted in your video that includes accompaniment. Piano accompaniment provided.
2. One solo piece of your choosing that you did not submit in your video. No accompaniment provided.

Memorization required? No

Accompaniment required? Yes, provided during the audition day.

Total amount of music should not exceed 10 minutes.

Pre-screening Round (Video Submission: 10 minutes maximum)

Repertoire requirements:

1. For tenor trombone or euphonium, prepare one etude of your choice from the following:
   • H. Voxman, Selected Studies
   • Tyrell, 40 Progressive Studies
   • Bordogni (Rochut), Melodious Etudes (Volume 1 or 2)

2. Prepare one solo work of your choice that includes accompaniment, or one movement from a concerto or sonata for tenor trombone or euphonium.

Memorization required? No

Accompaniment required? Please record without accompaniment.

Final Round (In-person at Luther College: 10 minutes maximum)

Repertoire requirements:

1. Perform the solo work (or concerto/sonata movement) you submitted in your video. Piano accompaniment provided.
2. Perform a 2nd solo work from the following options (no accompaniment provided):

• Tenor Trombone:
  • Concertino by Ferdinand David (Movement I – Allegro maestoso, or Movement II – Andante marcia funebre)
  • Concerto by Launy Grondahl (Movement 1)
  • Morceau Symphonique by Alexandre Guilmant
  • Sonata for Trombone by Paul Hindemith (Movement 1 or 3)
  • Annie Laurie by Arthur Pryor
  • Blue Bells of Scotland by Arthur Pryor
  • Cavatine by Camille Saint-Seans
  • A Caged Bird by Barbara York (Rehearsal E to the end)
• Euphonium:
  • Andante et Allegro by J. Ed. Barat
  • Rhapsody for Euphonium by James Curnow
  • Sonata by Eric Ewazen (I, II, or III)
  • Morceau Symphonique by Alexandre Guilmant
  • Infinite Escape by Frank Gulino
  • Suite for Baritone by Don Haddad (Movement 1)
  • Annie Laurie by Arthur Pryor
  • Blue Bells of Scotland by Arthur Pryor

Memorization required? No

Accompaniment required? Yes, provided during the audition day.

Total amount of music should not exceed 10 minutes.

Pre-screening Round (Video Submission: 10 minutes maximum)

Repertoire requirements:

1. Prepare one etude of your choice from the following etude book sources:
   • H. Voxman, Selected Studies for Trumpet
   • W. Wurm, 40 Studies for Trumpet
   • Theo Charlier, 36 Transcendental Etudes for Trumpet
   • Sigmund Hering, 30 Etudes for Trumpet

2. Prepare one solo work of your choice that includes accompaniment, or one movement from a concerto or sonata for trumpet.

Memorization required? No

Accompaniment required? Please record without accompaniment.

Final Round (In-person at Luther College: 10 minutes maximum)

Repertoire requirements:

1. Perform the solo work (or concerto/sonata movement) you submitted in your video that includes accompaniment. Piano accompaniment provided.
2. Perform a 2nd solo work from the following options (no accompaniment provided):
   • Kent Kennan, Sonata for Trumpet, Movements I or III
   • Paul Hindemith, Sonata for Trumpet, Movement I
   • Johann N. Hummel, Concerto for Trumpet, Movement I or III
   • Franz J. Haydn, Concerto for Trumpet, Movement I or III
   • Alexander Arutunian, Concerto for Trumpet (please make cuts to 6 – 7 minutes maximum)
   • Alexander Goedicke, Concert Etude
   • Eugene Bozza, Rustiques
   • Joseph Turin, Caprice

Memorization required? No

Accompaniment required? Yes, provided during the audition day.

Total amount of music should not exceed 10 minutes.

Pre-screening Round (Video Submission: 10 minutes maximum)

Repertoire requirements:

1. Prepare one etude of your choice from the following:
   1. Blazhevich, 70 Studies, Volume 1 or 2
   2. Bordogni, 43 Bel Canto Studies (King)
   3. Complete Vocalises (Jacobs) or any other edition for tuba/bass trombone is acceptable; Tyrell, 40 Advanced Studies for B-flat Bass
2. Prepare one solo work of your choice that includes accompaniment, or one movement from a concerto or sonata for bass trombone.

Memorization required? No

Accompaniment required? Please record without accompaniment.

Final Round (In-person at Luther College: 10 minutes maximum)

Repertoire requirements:

1. Perform the solo work (or concerto/sonata movement) you submitted in your pre-screen video submission. Piano accompaniment provided.
2. Perform a 2nd solo work from the following options (no accompaniment provided):
   • Introduction and Dance by J. E. Barat
   • Three Moods by Sy Brandon (Movements 1 and 3)
   • Concerto by Edward Gregson (Movement I, beginning – rehearsal 11)
   • Concerto in One Movement by A. Lebedev (beginning to the start of the cadenza)
   • Suite for Tuba by Don Haddad (Movement 1)
   • Concerto by Vaughan Williams (Movement I)
   • Tuba Suite by Gordon Jacob (Movements 1, 2, or 8)
   • Sonate by Paul Hindemith (Movement 1)

Memorization required? No

Accompaniment required? Yes, provided during the audition day.

Total amount of music should not exceed 10 minutes.

Pre-screening Round (Video Submission: 10 minutes maximum)

Repertoire requirements:

1. A complete movement of unaccompanied Bach from the Suites or comparable unaccompanied work.
2. The first movement of a standard concerto or comparable solo piece – such as, but not limited to concerti by JC Bach, Hoffmeister, Stamitz. Excerpts are acceptable.

Memorization required? No

Accompaniment required? Please record without accompaniment

Final Round (In-person at Luther College: 10 minutes maximum)

Repertoire requirements:

1. The accompanied solo piece you submitted for your video. Piano accompaniment provided.
2. A piece or single movement of your choice. No accompaniment provided.

Memorization required? No

Accompaniment required? Yes, provided during the audition day.

Total amount of music should not exceed 10 minutes.

Pre-screening Round (Video Submission: 10 minutes maximum)

Repertoire requirements:

1. A complete movement of unaccompanied Bach from the Sonatas & Partitas or comparable unaccompanied work.
2. The first movement of a standard concerto or comparable solo piece – such as, but not limited to  concerti by Mozart, Haydn, Mendelssohn, Bruch, Barber. Excerpts are acceptable.

Memorization required? No

Accompaniment required? Please record without accompaniment.

Final Round (In-person at Luther College: 10 minutes maximum)

Repertoire requirements:

1. The accompanied solo piece you submitted for your video. Piano accompaniment provided.
2. A piece or single movement of your choice. No accompaniment provided.

Memorization required? No

Accompaniment required? Yes, provided during the audition day.

Total amount of music should not exceed 10 minutes.

Pre-screening Round (Video Submission: 10 minutes maximum)

Repertoire requirements: Sing three selections in contrasting styles and in at least two different languages. The three selections may consist of either:

• 3 art songs

or

• 2 art songs and 1 aria from opera, operetta, or oratorio

Memorization required? Yes, for all selections.

Accompaniment required? Yes–record with a pianist if possible. If necessary, use an accompaniment track with good sound quality and singer/accompaniment balance.

Final Round (In-person at Luther College: 10 minutes maximum)

Repertoire requirements: Sing three selections in contrasting styles and in three different languages (you may choose selections from your video submission) according to the following guidelines:

• 1 selection must be an aria from opera, operetta, or oratorio
• The other two selection should be art songs*
• 1 selection must be in English

A selection from classical musical theater (lyrical musical theater; prior to 1965) may be substituted for one of the art songs

Memorization required? Yes, for all selections.

Accompaniment required? Yes, provided during the audition day.

Total amount of music should not exceed 10 minutes.