Violin Performance Major - Graduate Level
Prepared by Jean “Rudy” Perrault Director of Orchestras / Professor Violin & Viola

 Graduate Entrance Repertoire (minimum requirements)

Scales: all major and minor scales. 3 octaves in 1/16^th notes at ¼ note = 120
Fingering chosen from the following Scale Books
O. Sevcik Scale Studies
H. Schradieck Scale Studies
C. Flesch Scale Studies
J. Hrimaly Scale Studies

Etude Book (selected studies from the following books)
N. Paganini – 24 Caprices for the Violin, Op.1
P. Rodé – 24 Caprices for the Violin
P. Gaviniès – 24 Etudes for the Violin – Matinées
J. Dont – 24 Etudes and Caprices for the Violin, Op.35
C. Dancla – School of Velocity – Mechanism, Op.74
B. Campagnoli - Seven Divertissements - Op. 18

Solo & Concert Pieces (Concert piece or concerto from the following repertoire list – or equivalent)
Saint Saëns – Havanaise
Bach 6 Sonatas & Partitas
Beethoven Violin Concerto (movement I or III)
Saint Saëns Introduction and Rondo Capriccioso
Bruch Violin Concerto in g (movements I or III)
Conus Violin Concerto in e
Mendelssohn Violin Concerto in e minor (movements I or III)
Vieuxtemps Violin Concerto #4 in d minor
Vieuxtemps Violin Concerto #5
Selected Violin Sonatas

Orchestral Excerpts (3 or more excerpts chosen from the following list)
Strauss – Don Juan (1^st page)
Mendelssohn – Midsummer Night’s Dream (Overture & Scherzo)
Brahms – Symphony #1 (Movement 1 – 1^st page)
Brahms – Symphony #4 (Movement 3 – as indicated in Orchestral Excerpts)
Brahms – Symphony #2 (Movement 1 – as indicated in Orchestral Excerpts)
Mozart – Symphony #39 (Movements 1, 2 & 4 – as in Orchestral Excerpts)
Schumann – Symphony #2 (Scherzo)
Prokofieff – Classical Symphony (All movements)
Mozart – Symphony #40 (Movements 1 & 4 – as indicated in Orchestral Excerpts)
Beethoven – Symphony #4 (Movement 4 – as indicated in Orchestral Excerpts)
Shostakovich – Symphony #5 (Movements 1 & 4)
Schubert – Symphony #2 (Movements 1– as indicated in Orchestral Excerpts)