Conservatoire

Conservatoire Tuned Snare Timps

RNCM You should prepare ONE piece of your own choice, at least Grade 8 Sicilienne
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level Scheherazadia
Tchaikovsky Plus

Waltz Variations
Leeds Jazz:
Classical:

1. You may choose one of the following two options

A Child Is Born 1. You will be asked to perform two contrasting
• Perform two Jazz standards (with the ensemble) chosen All The Things ou Are pieces which demonstrate your musical
from the repertoire list (see below), 
 Autumn Leaves strengths. The pieces should be of grade 8
demonstrating your skills in Jazz improvisation and your Beautiful Love standard and contrasting in style – aim to
ability to play with an ensemble. 
 Blue Bossa show us what you can do technically and
Just Friends
expressively. For all instruments/voice apart
• Perform one Jazz standard (with the ensemble) from the Ladybird from piano, guitar and percussion, at least
repertoire list (see below) and one 
 Night & Day Satin Doll one of your chosen pieces should have
solo piece. The solo piece must represent your current Softly As In a Morning piano accompaniment. Percussionists
strengths on your chosen instrument. Original Sunrise should include one tuned percussion piece
Thad Jones
and one for snare drum or timpani. 

compositions or improvisations are acceptable. The solo
Kern/Hammerstein

piece must not be performed with a play along. 
 Kosma/Mercer

2. You will be asked to sight read a short piece
Young/King/Alstyne/ of music which will be given to you on the
2. You will be asked to improvise over a given chord progression at Gillespie Kenny Dorham
day. 

sight in an ensemble setting. 
 Lewis/Klemmer
Tadd Dameron
 3. You may be asked for scales/technical
3. You will be asked to sight read a short piece of music which will Cole Porter Ellington/ exercises as appropriate to your instrument
be given to you on the day. 
 Strayhorn/Mercer
and level. 

Hammerstein/Romberg
4. You may be asked for scales/technical exercises as appropriate 4. You will have a short interview, where we wil
to your instrument and level. 
 explore your general musical knowledge and
interests. 

5. You will have a short interview, where we will explore your
general musical knowledge and 

interests.
RCM Either a piece for four mallets on Marimba or a piece of similar standard Alex Neal Snare Drum Nick Woud Exercises 3, 9, 23 or
on Xylophone  
Entrance Audition,or a 25 from Symphonic Studies for Timpani, or a piece
Scales in all major and minor (harmonic and melodic) keys, and piece of similar standard
of similar standard  

chromatic scales starting on any note, two octave

Rolls: pp, ff and pp Rolls: pp, ff and pp crescendo to ff and dim back
Arpeggios and dominant sevenths in all major and minor keys, two crescendo to ff and dim to pp

octaves
back to pp
Candidates will be required to tune four timpani as
The audition will also include a sight-reading test. Snare Drum Entrance directed after an unrelated chord has been played
Audition is available to by on the piano

emailing Alex Neal
directly.
Guildhall A piece for solo marimba or vibraphone (free choice) 
A piece or study One study for three timpani from Saul Goodman's
JS Bach: Two-part Invention in D minor BWV775 for solo xylophone (unaccompanied ) of your Modern Method for Timpani (exx 60-69) (Belwin-
(arranged by Samuel Robinson, available from Southern Percussion)
own choice  Mills) OR a piece / study (unaccompanied) of your
Sight reading on Tuned Percussion
own choice

Aural test, scales and arpeggios (candidate’s choice of xylophone,