Tadeu Coelho, John Ellis,  Igor Begelman, Mark Popkin, Taimur Sullivan

The goal of the undergraduate woodwind program at the North Carolina School of the Arts is to enable the student to refine technical skills and develop advanced interpretive techniques through the study and performance of significant works from the woodwind literature. All undergraduate woodwind students are required to perform a recital in their senior year. Ensemble participation is by juried auditions. Students may be chosen to perform with the Symphony Orchestra, Opera Orchestra, Wind Ensemble, Jazz Ensemble, School of the Arts Contemporary Ensemble, Cantata Singers and chamber music groups.


Bassoon
In addition to the guidelines above, students working toward the Bachelor of Music in Bassoon will undertake a comprehensive development of technique using published and unpublished material; study reed-making, bassoon maintenance and repair; a survey of the important orchestra and chamber music works and the contrabassoon and its important orchestral excerpts. Recitals will include works for solo bassoon from the Baroque, Classic, Romantic and Contemporary periods.


Clarinet
Students in the undergraduate clarinet program work toward developing professional level in tone, quality and pitch; security in solo and ensemble playing; flexibility in varied acoustical settings; and fluency in all basic orchestral excerpt repertoire.The repertoire listed below is an indication of the range and difficulty of works typically studied by a clarinet student in the undergraduate program. It does not necessarily indicate required repertoire.

Technical Studies
Klosé Scales; Baermann Vol. 3; running scale chains; Cavallini Caprices; Stark Arpeggio Studies; Rose Studies; Opperman 1&3; Kroepsch; Jeanjean 18 Etudes

Solo Works
Raynaldo Hahn: Sarabande, Theme and Variations; Hindemith: Clarinet Sonata; Mozart: Clarinet Concerto; Finzi: Five Bagatelles; Rossini: Introduction, Theme and Variations; Hindemith: Concerto; Lutoslawski: Dance Preludes; Copland: Concerto; Nielsen: Concerto; Milhaud, Sonatine

Chamber Music
Bartok: Contrasts; Messiaen: Quartet; Hindemith and Nielsen Quintets

Orchestral Excerpts
Symphonies of Beethoven, Brahms, Tchaikovsky; Rimsky-Korsakoff: Capriccio Espagnol, Scheherezade; Shostakovich; Ravel: Daphnis and Chloe

Flute
In addition to the guidelines above, students working toward the Bachelor of Music in Flute will be required to prepare and perform a recital program in their senior year.

The repertoire listed below is an indication of the range and difficulty of works typically studied by a flute student in the undergraduate program. It does not necessarily indicate any required repertoire.

Eighteenth-Century Repertoire
Treatises and Studies of Johann Georg Tromlitz and Johann Joachim Quantz; Compositions by the Bach family, Johann Gottlieb and Karl Graun, George Frideric Handel, Johann Joachim Quantz, Georg Phillipp Telemann, etc.

Classical-Era Repertoire
Method and Articles of François Devienne; compositions by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, Franz Joseph Haydn, Ludwig van Beethoven, François Devienne, Johann Baptiste Wendling, etc.

Romantic-Era Repertoire
Methods of Jean Louis Toulou, Henri Altes, Theobald Böhm, Joachim Andersen; Compositions by Franz Schubert, Theobald Böhm, Giulio Briccialdi, Friedrich Kuhlau, Gabriel Fauré, Jean Louis Toulou, etc.

Twentieth-Century Repertoire
Methods and Études by Sigfried Karg-Elert, Paul Jean-Jean, Robert Dick; Compositions by Paul Hindemith, Brohuslav Martinu, Jacques Ibert, Darius Milhaud, Aaron Copland, Paul Varèse, Robert Dick, Wallingford Riegger, etc.


Oboe
In addition to the guidelines above, students working toward the Bachelor of Music in Oboe will be required to include at least one concerto on each of their recital programs.
The repertoire listed below is an indication of the range and difficulty of works typically studied by an oboe student in the undergraduate program. It does not necessarily indicate any required repertoire.

Concerti
Jean Françaix: L'horloge de Flore; Eugene Goossens: Oboe Concerto; Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart: Oboe Concerto; Jacques Ibert: Symphonie concertante; Johann Sebastian Bach: Concerto in C Minor for Oboe and Violin; Richard Strauss: Oboe Concerto; Vaughan Williams: Oboe Concerto; Bohuslav Martinu: Oboe Concerto

Sonatas
Antonio Vivaldi: Sonate in E Flat; Robert Schumann: Three Romances; Paul Hindemith: Oboe Sonata; Lennox Berkeley: Sonatina

Unaccompanied Oboe
Benjamin Britten: Six Metamorphoses after Ovid; Charles Boone: Vermilion; Daniel Bernstein: Four Silhouettes; Antal Dorati: Cinq Pieces; Vincent Persichetti: Parable for Solo Oboe