Applications will open for the 26/27 season on March 4, 2026!

The deadline for submitting applications (including all video audition materials) is May 8, 2026.

If you would like to audition for the 2026-27 season, please fill out the form at https://app.getacceptd.com/bostonphilyouth. There will be a $20 fee collected by Acceptd.

If you experience any technical issues with your application, please contact support@getacceptd.com and a member of the Acceptd team will reach out to asstst.

In addition to the designated orchestral excerpts below, please prepare two contrasting pieces or movements of the highest level that showcase your musical and technical abilities. Pieces from different styles and time periods are encouraged. (Percussionists, please prepare something on timpani, snare, and mallets.)

Inquiries about auditions should be directed to the BPYO office: bpyo@bostonphil.org. 

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EXCERPTS

These are multiple-page PDF excerpts. Page one will be the first piece listed, page two will be the second piece listed. If a third piece is listed, that will be on page 3 of the PDF. Percussion has 5 pages.

1. Mendelssohn: Midsummer Night’s Dream - Scherzo (page 1)
2. Brahms: Symphony No. 2 - Allegro non troppo (page 2)

1. Mozart: Symphony No. 35 - Mvmt. 1 (page 1)
2. Brahms: Variations on a Theme by Haydn - variation VII (page 2)

1. Mozart: Symphony No. 41 - Movmt. 1 Allegro vivace (page 1)
2. Brahms Symphony No. 2 - Mvmt. 2 Adagio non troppo (page 2)
3. Mendelssohn: Midsummer Night’s Dream Overture (page 3)

1. Mozart: Symphony No. 41 - Mvmt. 1 Allegro vivace (page 1)
2. Beethoven: Symphony No. 9 - Movmt. 4 presto (page 2)
3. Mahler: Symphony No. 1 - Mvmt. 3 (page 3)

1. Mendelssohn: Midsummer Night’s Dream - Scherzo (page 1)
2. Brahms Symphony No. 4 - Mvmt. 4 (page 2)

1. Ravel: Le Tombeau de Couperin (page 1)
2. Tchaikovsky: Symphony No. 4 - Mvmt. 2 (page 2)

1. Mendelssohn: Midsummer Night’s Dream - Scherzo (page 1)
2. Kodaly: Dances of Galanta (page 2)

1. Tchaikovsky: Symphony No. 4 - Mvmt. 2 (page 1)
2. Mozart: Le Nozze di Figaro Overture (page 2)

1. Brahms: Symphony No. 3 - Mvmt. 3 (page 1)
2. R. Strauss: Ein Heldenleben (page 2)

1. Beethoven: Leonore Overture No. 3 (page 1)
2. R. Strauss: Don Juan (page 2)
3. Stravinsky: Petrouchka (1947)- Ballerina’s Dance  (page 3)

1. Mozart: Requiem - andante (page 1)
2. Wagner: Die Walküre (page 2)

1. Berlioz: Hungarian March (page 1)
2. Wagner: Die Walküre (page 2)

1. Mahler: Symphony No. 1 - Mvmt. 3 (page 1)
2. Wagner: Die Walküre (page 2)

• Prokofiev: Lieutenant. Kijé - Mvmt. 1 (page 1)
• Rimski-Korsakov: Scheherazade - Mvmt. 4 (page 2)

• Mozart: Magic Flute Finale of Act 1 (page 3)

• G. Gershwin: Porgy and Bess (page 4)

• Hindemith: Symphonic Metamorphosis “Turandot” (page 5)