Insightful and, most importantly, practical, The Audition Method provides the essentials that every clarinetist surely needs to play the very best orchestral audition.

—Gregory Smith, Clarinetist
    Chicago Symphony Orchestra

The Audition Method for Clarinet is for aspiring and established clarinetists looking to win orchestral auditions. Clarinetists can use this book throughout the entire process of preparing for an audition, including at the audition itself.

In this volume Benjamin Baron, in collaboration with Mark Nuccio, provide core clarinet audition repertoire in three versions: the excerpt as it appears in the real part, an annotated version, and a version to use in the audition. All annotations are carefully made in blue ink for ease of reading.

Nuccio and Baron provide detailed information about preparing for each piece, as well as primary and secondary points of interest when preparing an audition. They also provide a number of practice exercises aimed at overcoming specific challenges of each excerpt.

The Audition Method is truly an invaluable aid that has the potential to transform and improve the entire audition experience.

Repertoire:
Mozart Clarinet Concerto; Beethoven Symphony no. 4, II and no. 4, IV; Beethoven Symphony no. 6, I, no. 6, II, and no. 6, III; Beethoven Symphony no. 8, III; Brahms Symphony no. 3, I Excerpt 1 and Excerpt 2; Brahms no. 3, II; Mendelssohn Scherzo from A Midsummer Night’s Dream; Respighi Pines of Rome, III; Rimsky-Kosakov Capriccio Espagnole, I, III, and IV; Schubert Symphony No. 8, II; Shostakovitch Symphony no. 9, II and no. 9, III.

Mark Nuccio has been the Principal Clarinetist of the Houston Symphony since 2016. Prior to that, he was a member of the New York Philharmonic for seventeen years and held positions in Pittsburgh, Denver, Savannah, and Florida. He is currently on faculty at the Frost School of Music (University of Miami), and previously at Northwestern University, Manhattan School of Music, Mannes College, and Duquesne University. Mark Nuccio is a performing artist/clinician for Buffet Music Group and an Advising Artist and Clinician for D’Addario.

Benjamin Baron has performed with many of New York’s finest ensembles, including the New York Philharmonic and the Metropolitan Opera Orchestra. Currently a member of the faculty and woodwind department coordinator at Montclair State University, Baron previously taught at Lehman College and was in residence at New York University with the Quintet of the Americas. Baron is a D’Addario Performing Artist and an Artist/Clinician for Buffet Music Group.
 

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