This 2022 Summer the HSMF Mentors will be reconnecting with the Hot Springs community to assure the future of the festival and our apprentices. Please stay with us as we take this next year to get ready for the 2023 Hot Springs Music Festival!
Past Audition Requirements
Violin Audition Requirements
5-10 minutes of what you feel best represents your musical abilities
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Please send your video as an unlisted Youtube video directly to the violin mentor Annie Chalex Boyle to achalexboyle@gmail.com
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Please include your resume with your email.
Viola Audition Requirements
Exposition of Bartok, Walton, Hindemith der Schwanendreher or Stamitz concerto and three excerpts.
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Please send your video as an unlisted Youtube video directly to the viola mentor Ann Marie Brink at ABrink1@depaul.edu
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Please include your resume with your email.
Cello Audition Requirements
​5-10 minutes of what you feel best represents your musical abilities
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Please send your video as an unlisted Youtube video directly to the cello mentor David Schepps at daveschepps@gmail.com
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Please include your resume with your email.
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Bass Audition Requirements
5-10 minutes of what you feel best represents your musical abilities
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Please send your video as an unlisted Youtube video directly to the bass mentor Kevin Mauldin at kevinm60@comcast.net
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Please include your resume with your email.
Horn Audition Requirements
Solo of your choice
1-minute maximum
Beethoven, Sym. No.8
Movement III: Pickups to mm. 45-78 (take the repeat).
Horn 2 in F
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Please send your video as an unlisted Youtube video directly to the horn mentor Caroline Kinsey at carokinsey@gmail.com
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Please include your resume with your email.
Bass Trombone Audition Requirements
All Excerpts are Trombone 3 unless specified.
Bach: Sarabande from Suite No. 5 in c minor, no repeats
Berlioz: Hungarian March: 6 measures before ‘4’ through four measures after ‘5’’
Schumann: Symphony No.3 “Rhenish”; Fourth Movement, beginning through 3 measures after A; 7 measures after A through 5 measures before the 3/2-time signature.
Wagner, Ride of the Valkyries; pickup to ‘6’ through 3 measures after ‘7’
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Please send your video as an unlisted Youtube video directly to the trombone and tuba mentor James Decker at jdeck911@gmail.com
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Please include your resume with your email.
Flute Auditions Requirements
Brahms Symphony No. 4 - Mvt IV, flute I - m. 89-105
Mozart Concerto in G major - exposition only (without piano)
One more standard orchestral excerpt of your choice (flute or piccolo)
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Please send your video as an unlisted Youtube video directly to the flute mentor Ginny Kunzer at virginiabroffitt@yahoo.com
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Please include your resume with your email.
Oboe Audition Requirements
Exposition of Mozart Concerto
First mov. excerpt from Ravel, Le Tombeau de Couperin
2nd mov excerpt from Brahms Violin Concerto
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Please send your video as an unlisted Youtube video to hotspringsmusicfestival@gmail.com
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Please include your resume with your video.
Clarinet Audition Requirements
5-10 minutes of what you feel best represents your musical abilities
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Please send your video as an unlisted Youtube video directly to the clarinet mentor Ozzy Molina at omolina@as.ua.edu
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Please include your resume with your email.
Bassoon Audition Requirements
5-10 minutes of what you feel best represents your musical abilities
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Please send your video as an unlisted Youtube video directly to the bassoon mentor Nathan Koch at nkoch@unl.edu
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Please include your resume with your email.
Trumpet Audition Requirements
5-10 minutes of what you feel best represents your musical abilities
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Please send your video as an unlisted Youtube video directly to the trumpet mentor Scott Moore at memphistrumpet@gmail.com
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Please include your resume with your email.
Tenor Trombone Audition Requirements
Solo of your choice – up to 2 minutes, accompaniment not required
All Excerpts are Trombone 2 unless specified.
Mozart: Requiem. Tuba Mirum
Berlioz: Hungarian March, 6 measures before ‘4’ through 2 measures after ‘5’
Saint-Saens: Symphony # 3 “Organ” (Trombone 1) Movement I – ‘Q’ through 3 measures before ‘R’
Wagner, Ride of the Valkyries (Trombone I), pickup to ‘6’ through 3 measures after ‘7’
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Please send your video as an unlisted Youtube video directly to the trombone and tuba mentor James Decker at jdeck911@gmail.com
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Please include your resume with your email.
Percussion Audition Requirements
Suggested audition recording should consist of a combination of excerpts and Bach on marimba, totaling between 5 and 10 minutes
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Please send your video as an unlisted Youtube video directly to the percussion mentor Matt McClung at matt_mcclung@yahoo.com
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Please include your resume with your email.
Piano Audition Requirements
List solo and chamber works that you have studied and/or performed during past four years, as well as large ensemble experience, if any.
Audition repertoire:
Two solo pieces of contrasting styles and periods
1-2 movements of chamber music repertoire
Total duration should not exceed 30 minutes. Selections should represent both a range of musical styles and the applicant's technical level.
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Please send your video as an unlisted Youtube video directly to the piano mentor Nataliya Sukhina at hotspringsmusicfestival@gmail.com
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Please include your resume with your email.
Tuba Audition Requirements
Solo of your choosing – play up to 2 minutes of your selection.
Berlioz: Hungarian March; ‘4’ through four measures after ‘5’
Gershwin: American in Paris; solo, four measures after ‘67’ to ‘68’
Mahler: Symphony No. 1; Third Movement, Seventh measure after ‘2’ through 3 measures before ‘4’
Wagner, Ride of the Valkyries; pickup to ‘11’ through the downbeat of 5 measures after ‘12’
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Please send your video as an unlisted Youtube video directly to the trombone and tuba mentor James Decker at jdeck911@gmail.com
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Please include your resume with your email.
Harp Audition Requirements
5-10 minutes of what you feel best represents your musical abilities
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Please send your video as an unlisted Youtube video directly to the harp mentor Deborah Fleisher at fleisherd@bellsouth.net
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Please include your resume with your email.