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The Arizona Flute Performance program encompasses studies of performance, teaching, and research to students in any major. As part of the University of Arizona CURE and VIP curricula, these courses allow students to undertake competitions, create recordings, author teaching curricula, and engage in kinesiological, medical, audiology, and AI research. Students have won competitions at all levels, recorded albums, taught flutists from beginners to adult amateurs, won business startup awards, and engaged in scientific research with grant funding.

The School of Music offers Individual flute instruction in the MUSI 181-485 courses. Students who wish to study through the School must perform a live audition before a faculty jury or submit a video recording of the required audition repertoire or similar works. After applying to the University of Arizona, you will schedule an audition according to the undergraduate and graduate audition programs. You may audition on one of the school-wide audition dates or schedule a campus visit. 

Visit the Studio

If you are considering auditioning for the UA Flute Performance program, we welcome you to visit our campus and attend many of the regular flute studio activities. Our flute studio meets on Monday at 11:00 AM for weekly studio master class during which students perform. Each Friday the studio meets for weekly technique class in which we perform memorized scales, arpeggios, intervals, lyric studies, and orchestral excerpts. You are welcome to bring your flute and join us in playing this basic technique.

We can also arrange for a current flute student to serve as your guide to the School of Music to attend an orchestral rehearsal, music theory or music history class, and join them for coffee or lunch. You are also welcome to arrange for a consultation or lesson with Dr. Luce.

Auditions

Undergraduate Auditions

Prepare a 10-minute audition comprised of two contrasting works (one from the 18th or 19th century and one from the 20th or 21st century) and memorized technique.
 
Audition Program
 
  • 3-4 minutes of a movement or movements from an 18th or 19th-century work
  • 3-4 minutes of a movement or movements from a 20th or 21st-century work
  • 2-3 minutes of memorized technique (scales, arpeggios, and intervals of your choice)
  • 1 minute of provided sightreading
Audition Procedure
 
  • Live Audition
    • Perform your program for the U of A woodwind faculty during any of our audition dates.
    • Perform your program for the U of A woodwind faculty personally-scheduled campus visit.
  • Recorded Audition
    • Video record your program with a camera or mobile device at a distance of 10 feet from the performer.
    • Video record each work or movement in it's entirety without editing or AI-modification.
    • Video record all technique in one continuous take without editing between each scale, arpeggio, or interval exercise.
Apply

Graduate Auditions

Prescreening (due January 1, 20207)
 
Submit a video recording of the exposition of either the either the Mozart G-Major or D-Major concerto and the excerpt from the Mendelssohn Midsummer's Night Dream Scherzo through the Acceptd Application.
 
Audition
 
Prepare a 20-minute audition comprised of the first movement of either the Mozart G-Major or D-Major concerto including a cadenza from memory. Perform movements from a sonata, sonatina, contest work, or unaccompanied piece from the 19th through 21st centuries. In addition, perform three orchestral excerpts followed by memorized technique and sightreading.
 
Audition Program
 
  • 7-8 minutes of the first movement from the Mozart G-Major or D-Major concerto with a cadenza from memory
  • 5-6 minutes of a sonata, sonatina, contest work, or unaccompanied piece from the19th through 21st centuries
  • 2-3 minutes of three orchestral excerpts
  • 2-3 minutes of memorized technique (scales, arpeggios, intervals of your choice)
  • 1 minute of provided sightreading
Audition Procedure
 
  • Live Audition
    • Perform your program for the U of A woodwind faculty during any of our audition dates.
    • Perform your program for the U of A woodwind faculty personally-scheduled campus visit.
  • Recorded Audition
    • Video record your program with a camera or mobile device at a distance of 10 feet from the performer.
    • Video record each work or movement in it's entirety without editing or AI-modification.
    • Video record all technique in one continuous take without editing between each scale, arpeggio, or interval exercise.
Apply

Repertoire Examples
18th-19th Centuries20th-21st Centuries
  • J. S. BACH: Sonata in E Major
  • J. S. BACH: Sonata in E-flat Major
  • J. S. BACH: Sonata in C Major
  • G. F. HANDEL: Sonata in G Major
  • MOZART: Concerto in G Major, K 313
  • MOZART: Concerto in D Major, K 314b
  • CECILE CHAMINADE: Concertino, Op. 107
  • GEORGES ENESCO: Cantabile et Presto
  • GABRIEL FAURE: Fantaisie, Op. 79
  • LOUIS GANNE: Andante et Scherzo (1901)
  • BENJAMIN GODARD: Suite de Trois Morceaux, movements I and II
  • GEORGES HÜE: Fantaisie, (1913)
  • ROBERT MUCZYNSKI: Sonata, Op.14

Technique Examples

ScalesArpeggiosIntevals
  • Major, minor, harmonic minor, and melodic minor scales in two octaves
  • Whole tone scales
  • TAFFANEL ET GAUBERT: E.J. No. 3 
  • TAFFANEL ET GAUBERT: E.J. No. 4
  • REICHERT: Daily Exercises, Op. 7, No. 1
  • AMEA, ABODA, NMEA, NMMEA, etc. scale patterns
  • Major, minor, augmented, diminished, triads in two octaves
  • Diminished 7ths, dominant 7ths
  • TAFFANEL ET GAUBERT: E.J. No. 10
  • TAFFANEL ET GAUBERT: E.J. No. 11
  • TAFFANEL ET GAUBERT: E.J. No. 12
  • Major, minor 3rds
  • Major, minor 6ths
  • Chromatic intervals of your choice

Sample Audition Repertoire
Mozart Concerto19th-21st CenturiesOrchestral Excerpts

Perform the first movement with a cadenza of your choice.

  • MOZART: Concerto in G Major, K 313
  • MOZART: Concerto in D Major, K 314b

Perform a movement or movements from these works or similar repertoire.

  • HENRI DUTILLEUX: Sonatine (1943)
  • ANDRÉ JOLIVET: Chant de Linos (1944)
  • ROBERT MUCZYNSKI: Sonata, Op.14
  • CARL REINECKE: Sonata, Op. 167
  • PIERRE SANCAN: Sonatine (1946)

Perform three contrasting excerpts: one articulative, one lyric, and one technical.

  • BEETHOVEN: Leonore Overture
  • CLAUDE DEBUSSY: L'apres midi d'un faun
  • IGOR STRAVINSKY: Firebird Suite

Sample Technique

ScalesArpeggiosIntevals
  • Major, minor, harmonic minor, and melodic minor scales in two octaves
  • Whole tone scales
  • ALTÈS: Célèbre Méthode
  • GILBERT: Technical Flexibility
  • MILAN: Technique Books 1-2
  • MOYSE: Exercices Journaliers
  • TAFFANEL ET GAUBERT: E.J. No. 4
  • REICHERT: Daily Exercises, Op. 7, No. 1
  • Major, minor, augmented, diminished, triads in two octaves
  • ALTÈS: Célèbre Méthode
  • MILAN: Technique Books 1-2
  • MOYSE: Exercices Journaliers
  • TAFFANEL ET GAUBERT: E.J. No. 10
  • TAFFANEL ET GAUBERT: E.J. No. 11
  • TAFFANEL ET GAUBERT: E.J. No. 12
  • Major, minor 3rds
  • Major, minor 6ths
  • Chromatic intervals of your choice
  • ALTÈS: Célèbre Méthode
  • MILAN: Technique Books 1-2
  • MOYSE: Exercices Journaliers
  • TAFFANEL ET GAUBERT: E.J. No. 6
 
Brian Luce, Professor and Associate Director
bluce@arizona.edu
520-621-7015