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Fellowship Program

ON Fellows are students and emerging professionals at various stages of experience. They are musicians who need to get a foot in the door and receive mentorship in a supportive, professional environment. The Fellowship Program is competitive and requires an audition. This year, Orchestra Next will be accepting roughly 35 orchestral musicians for the season.

Fellows will participate in Orchestra Next's 2026/27 Season which includes:

  • Taming of the Shrew (Farrenc) in October with Eugene Ballet
  • The Nutcracker (Tchaikovsky) in December with Eugene Ballet
  • A recording project in in March
  • Firebird (Stravinsky) in April with Eugene Ballet

Fellows will also be ready to go for productions that come up for ON!

Fellows will be paid an honorarium for their work as they were in prior years ($80 per service)

The audition is open to anyone who is looking for the opportunity to work in a training orchestra. There are no age restrictions. For more information, please see ON's DEIAB statement.

Please find the appropriate audition excerpts for your instrument below. Video record your audition and upload it to YouTube as unlisted (not public or private). Please compile all material into one video. Here is an example as to how you should label your video on YouTube: “Orchestra Next Audition: Trumpet“

Include the link in the audition form.

Auditions open (follow the link below) on July, 2026

Deadline for submissions: 11:59 pm on Sept 25, 2026

Chosen candidates will be notified about the results of their audition by early October

Tuition for the ON program is $500, but all Fellows accepted into the program receive a full scholarship

Questions? email us at orchestranext@gmail.com

Apply for the 2026/27 Season
  1. Mozart Flute Concerto in G, K. 313 Mvt. I Exposition (mm. 31-91)
  2. Tchaikovsky Nutcracker Flute 2: Danse des mirlitons, beginning to C (m.43)
  3. Stravinsky Le Oiseu de Feu Piccolo, Variation de l'Oise de Feu, complete. You may use the parts for either the full ballet or suite. Packet includes the suite.
ON Flute Excerpts 26/27
  1. Mozart: Oboe Quartet in F Major
    • Beginning through downbeat of m. 35
  2. William Grant Still: Incantation and Dance
    • Opening through m. 13
  3. Beach: Symphony in E Minor
    • Oboe 1: Mvt. II, mm. 5- 19
  4. Tchaikovsky: Nutcracker
    • Oboe 2: Overture, Reh 2 through 4th measure after Rehearsal 3
ON Oboe Excerpts 26/27
  1. Tchaikovsky: Nutcracker
    • Act I, Scene 5: beginning to rehearsal #46
    • Act I, Scene 5: rehearsal #63-64
  2. Brief solo of choice, or Jenni Brandon, In the City Night - available through the publisher: https://jennibrandon.com/product/in-the-city-at-night-for-solo-english-horn-sheet-music/
    • Opening through m. 7
    • Mm. 33 through downbeat of m. 49
ON English Horn Excerpts 26/27 (does not include solo)
  1. Farrenc: Nonet
    • Mvt IV: mm. 25-36
  2. Farrenc: Symphony No. 3
    • Mvt II: beginning to m. 26
  3. Tchaikovsky: The Nutcracker
    • Overture: mm. 20-24
  4. Tchaikovsky: The Nutcracker
    • No 12a: m. 13 to rehearsal #23
  5. Stravinsky: Petrushka
    • Begin at rehearsal 56 (see attached below)
  6. Mendelssohn: A Midsummer Night's Dream
    • Scherzo (see attached below)
ON Clarinet Excerpts 26/27
  1. Tchaikovsky: The Nutcracker
    • see attached
  2. Tchaikovsky: The Nutcracker
    • see attached
  3. Tchaikovsky: The Nutcracker
    • see attached
  4. Grofe: Gran Canyon Suite
    • Mvt III: rehearsal #2 to #3
    • Mm. 33 through downbeat of m. 49
ON Bass Clarinet Excerpts 26/27
  1. Tchaikovsky: The Nutcracker
    • bracketed excerpts (two)
  2. Farrenc, Symphony #3 (i) Bassoon I [letter K to letter L]
  3. Farrenc, Nonet (ii) [pickup to m 41 to m 60; no repeats]
  4. Farrenc, Symphony #2 (ii) Bassoon I [letter O to 5 after letter P]
  5. Stravinsky, Firebird [reh 112 to reh 113 and reh 129 to reh 133]
ON Bassoon Excerpts 26/27 (updated 7.22)
  1. Stravinsky: Firebird
    • Horn in F: Danse infernale du roi Katscheï: Beginning to [3]
  2. Bach: Cello Suite #5 arr. Wendell Hoss - Horn in F - play with repeats
  3. Beach: Symphony in E minor
    • Horn 1: Mvt. II, Beginning - m. 4
ON Horn Excerpts 26/27 (corrected 8.15)

Solos/Etudes

  1. Charlier Etude No. 2: Du Style
    • Measure 1 to 24
  2. Tanaka Silent Ocean, II. Love Song
  3. Beach: Symphony in E minor
    • Measure 3 to 26

Excerpts

  1. Bizet Carmen Suite No. 1: No. 1 Prelude (Trumpet 1)
    • Measure 3 to end
  2. Revueltas Sensemayá (Trumpet 1)
    • Reh. 8 to Reh. 12
  3. Schumann Symphony No. 2 (Trumpet 2)
    • Measure 1 to measure 13 (fill in 1st Trumpet octaves)
  4. Stravinsky Firebird: Danse Infernale Du Roi Kastchei (Trumpet 2)
    • 4 measures before Reh. 2 to Reh. 3
    • Reh. 19 to Reh. 21
  5. Stravinsky Petrouchka (1947 edition) (Trumpet 1)
    • Rehearsal 134 to Rehearsal 139
ON Trumpet Excerpts 26/27
  1. Mozart: Requiem, Tuba Mirum
    • 2nd trombone, Opening to mm. 18
  2. Berlioz: Hungarian March
    • 2nd trombone, Start 4mm before REH 4. End 2mm after REH 5
  3. Mahler: Symphony No. 3
    • Mvt 1 : REH #13 to #17
  4. Wagner: Ride of the Valkries
    • Pick-up to 11 through 5th bar of 12
ON Tenor Trombone Excerpts 26/27
  1. Haydn: Creation #26, beginning to C
    • 2nd trombone, Opening to mm. 18
  2. Schumann: Symphony No. 3
    • IV: beginning to measure 18
  3. Wagner: Das Rheingold, Entrance of the Gods
    • Scene IV, last 15 measures
  4. Strauss: Till Eulenspiegel
    • REH 36 to 16mm after REH 37
ON Bass Trombone Excerpts 26/27
  1. Mahler: Symphony No. 1
    • Mvt. III Satz: 4 before 3 to 5 after 3
  2. Wagner: Ride of the Valkyries
    • pick-up to 11 through 5th bar of 12
  3. Prokofiev: Symphony No. 5
    • Mvt. I: [3] to 2 bars before [6]
  4. Respighi: Fountains of Rome
    • REH 11 to downbeat of REH 14
ON Tuba Excerpts 26/27
  1. Solo of choice (2 min max)
  2. Tchaikovsky: The Nutcracker
    • Waltz of the Flowers Cadenza
  3. Verdi: Forza del Destino
    • Harp 1: Reh G - H
  4. Britten: Young Person's Guide to the Orchestra
    • Var. I & Fugue, I to end
ON Harp Excerpts 26/27
  1. Solo of choice (2 min max)
  2. Brahms: Academic Festival Overture, op.80
    • 379-399
  3. Tchaikovsky: The Nutcracker, op.71
    • Coda, C-end of movement
    • 9 Snow Flakes Waltz, 8 before I - K
    • Overture miniature, C-D(top line)
    • Overture miniature, G-end (top line)
  4. Farrenc: Taming of the Shrew
    • (4a.) No. 1 Reh G - m. 145
    • (4b.) No. 4 m. 1 - 19
    • (4c.) No. 7 m. 1 - 36
    • (4d.) No. 9 m. 129 - 139
    • (4e.) No. 11A Reh D - m. 105
    • (4f.) No. 11A Reh N - m. 315
  5. Stravinsky: Firebird
    • (5a.) Reh. 15 - 16
    • (5b.) Reh 19 - 20
    • (5c.) Reh 24 - 26
    • (5d.) Reh 114 - 115
    • (5e.) Reh 174 - 179
ON Violin Excerpts 26/27
  1. Concerto of choice (2 min max)
  2. Beethoven: Symphony No. 5
    • Mvt II: Beginning to m. 10
  3. Mendelssohn: Midsummer Night's Dream
    • No. 1: Scherzo: m. 17 - letter D
    • letter E - letter G
  4. Tchaikovsky: Nutcracker
    • Overture: beginning to letter A (first 16 bars)
  5. Tchaikovsky: Nutcracker
    • No. 4: beginning to m. 14
  6. Tchaikovsky: Nutcracker
    • Mother Gigogne and the Clowns: m. 4 - 18 measures after letter A (or m. 36)
ON Viola Excerpts 26/27
  1. Solo piece excerpt, unaccompanied (2 min max)
  2. Tchaikovsky: The Nutcracker
    • One before rehearsal 15 to rehearsal 16
    • Pickup to twelve before rehearsal 17 to 17
    • Ten before rehearsal 68 to four after 68
    • Rehearsal 69-71 (Pas de deux)
  3. Mendelssohn: A Midsummer Night's Dream
    • Scherzo: C - D
    • Scherzo: N - O
  4. Farrenc: Symphony no. 1
    • mm 255-267
ON Cello Excerpts 26/27
  1. Beethoven: Symphony No. 5
    • Mvt. III: beginning through m. 100
    • Mvt. III: mm. 141- 218 (no repeat)
  2. Mozart: Symphony No. 39
    • A marked, see below
  3. Strauss: Ein Heldenleben
    • As marked, see below
ON Bass Excerpts 26/27
  1. Marimba or Vibraphone. 1 movement from Bach's Cello Suites, Violin Sonatas and Partitas or Lute Suite
  2. Snare. Etude No. 1 from Douze Etudes by Jacques Delecluse

Excerpt PDF available by request

  1. ~3 minute solo of your choice
  2. Stravinsky: Petrushka
    • Danse russe (rehearsal 33 through the downbeat of rehearsal 39)
ON Piano Excerpts 26/27
Apply for the 2026/27 Season