Apply for the 2026-2027 season!

The deadline for submitting applications (including all video audition materials) has now passed. Thank you to the many students who have submitted materials.

If you not have a chance to submit an application but would still like to, please email us bpyo@bostonphil.org and we will respond to your inquiry.

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AUDITION REQUIREMENTS

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)