Prerequisites

• A refined tone and ability to adjust tonal color as appropriate to the instrumentand music.

• An ability to perform all articulation in a well-executed, nuanced style, including but not limited to staccato, legato, slur, fp, sfp.

• Finely tuned accuracy in performance of all rhythms.

• An ability to perform technical passages with accuracy and ease.

• A refined ability to tune and adjust intonation with accuracy when indicated.

• An ability to perform with facility in all keys.

• An ability to perform scales in all keys, with a sense of line and phrasing.

• An ability to perform with refined sensitivity, expression and phrasing.

• An ability to listen to themselves and others when performing.

• An ability to visually respond to conductors and musicians.

• An ability to change tonal color as needed and to blend with others.

• An ability to perform with more nuanced dynamics to include the full dynamic range (ppp-fff)

• Trumpets and horns should have some exposure to transposition.