RISE FILM SCORING ORCHESTRA 2026

2026 REQUIREMENTS and APPLICATION

Applicants must upload three videos to a video sharing site like YouTube.

One video will be a personal statement, one will be the required scales, and the third will be an audition selection. Read the information listed below regarding the requirements for each of the three videos. Once the videos are uploaded, applicants should go to the RISE Orchestra application page (see link below) and fill out the form with their personal information and the links to their videos.

For specific questions regarding auditions and applications, please contact Tom Pease: ttpease@gmail.com

We will accept applications Oct 13, 2025 through Jan 15th, 2026

Applications are now closed.

Personal Statement Video

(Required for All Students)

En un solo vídeo, sin editar, grábese respondiendo a una de las tres preguntas de la declaración personal que figuran a continuación en 90 segundos o menos. Comience su vídeo indicando el número de la pregunta que está respondiendo. Conteste específicamente y exprese su perspectiva única.

1. How have you used, or how do you believe you can use your musical experience to shape the world around you? Give us a specific example of this and explain how it has or could impact the people that surround you.
2. What are some of the skills, lessons, and values you’ve learned from studying music that will help you be successful in the life you envision?
3. Who is someone that inspires you, musically or as a person? Tell us about why this musical/person inspires you, and what you have learned about this person’s ability to create inspiration through their work.

Musical Audition

(Required for all students)

La audición musical consta de dos secciones:

1. Escalas asignadas

• Haga clic aquí para ver la lista de escalas por instrumento

Los intérpretes de cuerda deben ejecutar cada escala asignada dos veces con las siguientes articulaciones; articulación ligada, detache.

Los intérpretes de vientos, metales y percusión deben ejecutar cada escala asignada con las articulaciones especificadas en las siguientes páginas.

Nota: Todas las instrucciones deben realizar las escalas asignadas a un tempo mínimo de negra.

2. Extractos musicales asignados

Los siguientes enlaces le proporcionarán información sobre los extractos requeridos específicamente para su instrumento.

Woodwinds

• Flute — William Tell C to D
• Flute — William Tell Andante to F
• Oboe — Schubert Sym 9 m9 to A
• Oboe — Schubert Sym 9 F
• Clarinet in A — William Tell C to D
• Clarinet Bb — Don Quixote 5 to 6
• Bassoon — William Tell C to D
• Bassoon — William Tell 22 to 23

Brass

• Horns in E — William Tell L to M
• Horn in E — William Tell after All Vivace
• Trumpet — Tchaikovsky Sym 2 K to L
• Trumpet — Tchaikovsky Sym 2 D to E
• Trombone — Tchaikovsky Sym 2 C to dbl bar
• Tuba Tchaikovsky Sym 2 4th mov

Percusión

• Timp — Beethoven Sym 1 2nd mov B
• Mallets — Sorcerer’s App 17 to 19

Strings

• Violin — Tchaikovsky Sym 2 Allegro Vivo
• Violin — Mozart Symphony 39 1st mov
• Violin — Mozart Sym 39 Andante con moto
• Viola — Tchaikovsky Sym 2 1st mov I to K
• Viola — Tchaikovsky Sym 2 1st mov D to E
• Viola — William Tell 20 to 21
• Cello Bass — Tchaikovsky Sym 2 1st mov to B
• Cello Bass — William Tell G to H
• Cello Bass — William Tell All Vivace