Audition Excerpts and Application

A PDF copy of these instructions on how to submit your video can be found HERE.

Carefully review the BSYO Audition Information available on our website and make sure you have selected the correct excerpts for your intended ensemble (i.e. if you are planning to audition for the Concert Orchestra, be sure you have chosen the CO excerpts, not the YO excerpts).

If you are hoping to be considered for more than one ensemble, choose the more advanced audition material (i.e. if you wanted to be considered for both CO and YO, you should prepare the YO audition music ONLY and submit that).

Practice your audition music and prepare it with your private or school teacher, give yourself plenty of times and chance to record and submit your video through the BSYO application form before the due date of Friday, May 31st at 11:59 PM.

1. Your video must be ONE TAKE – It should be continuous, as though you were in a live audition. You can record as many auditions as you like but submit only one that is complete without edits and is one take.
2. Begin by speaking your name, instrument, intended ensemble (SO, CO, or YO), and what grade you will be in next fall.
3. Start with your solo selection. About 2-5 minutes, WITHOUT accompaniment
4. After your solo, proceed with the excerpts in their printed order. You may pause, breathe, and perform brief instrument maintenance between excerpts, but there should not be cuts, breaks, or splices in the recording.
5. Do not edit or enhance the recording using video/sound editing software.