BYO Philharmonia
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BYO Philharmonia is for strong intermediate musicians that will form a full orchestra comprised of strings, winds, brass, and percussion. Repertoire from arrangements to original standard works are studied and performed. The BYO Philharmonia plays two concerts per season.
Rehearsals: Wednesdays, 7:00-8:30 pm at Our Savior Lutheran Church, 22-15 Broadway, Fairlawn, NJ
Philharmonia Concert and Rehearsal Schedule
Registration/Audition Fee: $ 50.00
Seasonal Tuition: $800.00
BYO Philharmonia Requirements
Woodwind and Brass:
Scales: All major keys, full range of instrument
Articulation: Legato, staccato and double tonguing for brass.
Intonation: Excellent in prepared music.
Sight Reading: Fluid. Players should have the ability to adequately perform music at the same level as the suggested audition pieces.
Timpani & Percussion:
All rudiments of technique
Ability to tune timpani
Ability to play three to four timpani
For mallet instruments: All major scales Sight
Reading: Same as Woodwind & Brass
Strings:
Scales: All major keys through 4 flats and 4 sharps full range of instrument in position in 3 octaves
Bowing: Good technique in legato, staccato, spiccato and martelé
Intonation: Same as Woodwind & Brass
Sight Reading: Same as Woodwind & Brass
Suggested Audition Pieces or Alternate pieces to be chosen by student
Flute: Vivaldi or Mozart Concerto (Fast Mvt)
Oboe: Marcello or Albinoni Concerto (Fast Mvt)
Clarinet: Stamitz Concerto (Fast Mvt) or Weber Concertino
Bassoon: Weissenborn Etude or Eccles Sonata
Horn: Mozart Concerto (Fast Mvt) or Kopprasch Study
Trumpet: Arban Study or Haydn Concerto (Any Mvt)
Trombone: Transcriptions of Baroque Sonatas (Vivaldi, Corelli)
Tuba: Air and Bourrée J.S. Bach arr. William Bell or Kopprasch Study
Timpani: Saul Goldenberg Intermediate Etude
Snare Drum: Morris Goldenberg Intermediate Etude
Violin: Antonio Vivialdi, J. S. Bach Concerto No. 1 (1st Mvt) or Mozart
Viola: Bach Concerto No. 3 (1st Mvt), Telemann Concerto (Fast Mvt)
Cello: Brahms Sonata No. 1 (1st Mvt)
Bass: Marcello or Eccles Sonata