If I can ever find the card I was using to take videos from the camcorder and make mpg's out of them, I'll put last year's solo online. It was very good and she got 1's both at district and state with it.
She got 7th chair this time in District band, but didn't get one for State, though she did get a callback. Last year she got 5th chair in District's concert band and 3rd in their jazz band. I'm assuming it was concert band this year. She said there were 170 trumpet players auditioning this year.
Her solo this year is *very* aggressive. Concert Etude, Opus 49, by Alexander Goedicke. If you get a chance, definitely listen to a copy of it. We likely won't have a copy of her performing it until the school's spring concert. She's got it pretty close to nailed down, but I'm still quite a ways away. The piano part is one of the more difficult pieces I've ever dealt with, mostly because of the speed (mm 1/4-note=144, and most measures are full of sixteenth notes), and in large part because of accidentals that aren't notated very conveniently.
And it's very unhelpful that our Samick console piano is just the most horrible thing to try to play fast on. I'm more accustomed to a good grand's action, with keys that come up as fast as your fingers do. On the Samick, as fast as this song is, a key can still be on its way up when I need to hit it 2-3 notes later.
Her solo next year is going to be the standard Haydn piece that college students typically do (and that I did my Senior year) and I'm really looking forward to it. The piano part is a lot easier.
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