Are you interested in joining Orchestra Next for the 2025-26 season?  

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 with the profession and are looking for an orchestral experience that is at a professional level and fun. The Fellowship Program is competitive and requires an audition. As in more typical years, Orchestra Next will be accepting roughly 35 orchestral musicians for the season.

What will Fellows be involved with over the season?

• Fellows will participate in Orchestra Next’s 25/26 Season which includes:
  • The Nutcracker (Tchaikovsky) in December with Eugene Ballet
  • Cinderella in February with Eugene Ballet
  • Petrushka 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 ($75 per service)

Fellowship Audition Procedure and Requirements

• 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 Aug. 1, 2025
• Deadline for submissions: 11:59 pm on Oct 3, 2025
• 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 [at] gmail.com

Orchestra Next 25/26 Application

Audition Excerpts for Fellowship Application

Flute

ON Flute Excerpts

Oboe

1. 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

English Horn excerpts

1. 1. Tchaikovsky: Nutcracker
      • Act I, Scene 5: beginning to rehearsal #46
      • Act I, Scene 5: rehearsal #63-64
   2. Jenni Brandon, In the City Night
      • Opening through m. 7
      • Mm. 33 through downbeat of m. 49

ON English Horn Excerpts

Clarinet

1. 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)

(pages 1-3 below)

ON Clarinet Excerpts

Bass Clarinet

1. 1. Tchaikovsky: The Nutcracker
      • see attached
   2. Tchaikovsky: The Nutcracker
      • see attached
   3. Tchaikovsky: The Nutcrakcer
      • see attached
   4. Grofe: Grand Canyon Suite
      • Mvt III: rehearsal #2 to #3

ON Bass Clarinet Excerpts

Bassoon

1. 1. Tchaikovsky: Nutcracker
      • bracketed excerpts (two)
   2. Jennifer Higdon: Concerto for Orchestra
      • Mvt. I: mm 190-196
   3. Stravinsky: Petrushka
      • Bassoon 2: Russian Dance, Reh 43- 47 selections
   4. Prokofiev: Cinderella
      • Bassoon 1: #15 Variation of the Autumn Fairy, Reh 97-101 selections
   5. Stravinsky: Petrushka OPTIONAL for contrabassoon consideration
      • Contra: Ballerina’s Dance, Reh 72-74

ON Bassoon Excerpts

Horn

Trumpet

1. 1. William Dawson: Negro Folk Symphony 
      • Mvt. I,  17mm before 2 through 4 bars after 2
      • Mvt. I, 9th bar of 14 through 15
   2. Stravinsky: Petrushka 1947
      • 2nd trumpet
        • reh. 116-119
        • reh. 156-158
        • reh. 163-167
        • reh. 265-267
          
   3. Jennifer Higdon: Concerto for Orchestra
      • Mvt I: mm. 216 – 235 (tpt in C)
   4. Debussy: La Mer
      • 2nd trumpet:
        • reh. 26-27
          

• • • 1st cornet:
      • 6 mm. before reh. 58 to 2 before 58
      • reh. 62 to 4 before reh. 63

ON Trumpet Excerpts

Trombone

ON Tenor Trombone Excerpts

Bass Trombone

Tuba

1. 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]

ON Tuba Excerpts

Harp

1. 1. Solo of choice, 2 minutes 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

Violin

Viola

1. 1. Concerto of choice (2min)
   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)

Cello

1. 1. Solo piece excerpt 2 min
   2. Tchaikovsky: The Nutcracker
      • Trepak: rehearsal 34-35
   3. Tchaikovsky: Nutcracker
      • Pas de Deux: beginning to 4 after 68
   4. Mendelssohn: A Midsummer Night’s Dream
      • Scherzo: C-D
      • Scherzo: N-O
   5. La Mer:
      • Reh 9 through seven mm. after Reh 9
      • Reh 61-62

Bass

1. 1. Beethoven: Symphony No. 5
      • Mvt. III: beginning through m. 100
      • Mvt. III: mm. 141- 218 (no repeat)
   2. Mozart: Symphony No. 39
      • As marked, see below
   3. Strauss: Ein Heldenleben
      • As marked, see below

ON Bass Excerpts

Percussion

1. 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

Piano

1. 1. ~3 minute solo of your choice
   2. Stravinsky: Petrushka
      • Danse russe (rehearsal 33 through the downbeat of rehearsal 39)

ON Piano Excerpts

Orchestra Next 25/26 Application