Trombone Studio
at the School of Music
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Degree Programs
Full degree information on the Fred Fox School of Music website.
Undergraduate
- BA – Music, Instrumental Studies
- BM – Music Education
- BM – Jazz Studies
- BM – Performance
Graduate
- MM – Performance
- DMA – Performance
Audition Requirements
Undergraduate
- Two contrasting solos or etudes (demonstrate lyrical and technical playing)
- One major and one minor scale and a chromatic scale starting on low E, two octaves.
- Orchestral excerpts:
- Tenor Trombone:
- Tuba Mirum, from Mozart Requiem, 2nd trombone solo
- Hungarian March
- Bass Trombone:
- Haydn Creation no. 26
- Tenor Trombone:
Graduate
- Two contrasting solos from standard solo literature
- Orchestral excerpts
- Tenor Trombone:
- Bolero
- Tuba Mirum, from Mozart Requiem, 2nd trombone solo
- Rossini, William Tell
- Saint Saens, Symphony No 3. 1st trombone solo, 1st movement
- Mahler, Symphony No 3., solo, 1st movement
- Bass Trombone:
- Haydn, Creation no. 26
- Beethoven, Symphony no. 9, 4th movement
- Respighi, Fountains of Rome
- Wagner, Rheingold ending
- Tenor Trombone:
Michael Becker
Trombone Instructor
Instructor
mbecker@arizona.edu
Music Bldg, Room 109
520-621-1655
