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

CLICK HERE to proceed to the RISE 2026 Application Form

Personal Statement Video

(Required for All Students)

In a single, unedited video, please record yourself answering one of the three personal statement questions below in 90 seconds or less. Please begin your video by stating which question number you are answering. Answer specifically and express your unique perspective.

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)

The musical audition is comprised of two sections:

1. Assigned scales

• Click Here for Scales by Instrument List

String Players must perform each assigned scale twice with the following articulations; slurred articulation, detache.

Winds, Brass, & Percussion Players must perform each assigned scale with the articulations specified in the following pages.

Note: All instructions should perform their assigned scales at a minimum tempo of quarter note.

2. Assigned music excerpts

The following links will provide information on Required Excerpts specifically for your instrument.

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

Percussion

• 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