The Orchestral MIDI Project

The Orchestral MIDI Project offers free downloadable MIDI audio files of standard clarinet orchestral excerpts which appear on professional auditions. It can be used as a teaching resource, but I hope it will be helpful to students, performers, and auditioners alike as a practice tool. The MIDIs are provided with a metronome in different tempos so one can practice the excerpts at various speeds and the excerpts are tuned at A=440. The MIDI files only omit the first clarinet part. The project took hours to complete in terms of the scanning process and making corrections to the orchestral scores in Sibelius. Special thanks to composers Clay Gonzalez and Ari Sussman for helping with these corrections in Sibelius. This idea was inspired by my mentor Daniel Gilbert (Professor at University of Michigan and former clarinetist of The Cleveland Orchestra) so I’m happy to realize this project.

Beethoven Symphony No. 4

Second movement, [B] to one after rehearsal [C]:

Second movement, [F] to 7 before [G]:

Beethoven Symphony No. 6 (Pastoral)

First movement 2 Measures Before [K] to MM. 492:

Second movement, 1 measure before [D] to mm. 77:

Beethoven Symphony No. 8

Third movement (Trio):

Brahms Symphony No. 3

First movement, MM. 34-47:

Second movement, beginning to Rehearsal [B]:

Mendelssohn Scherzo from a midsummer Night’s Dream

Beginning to Rehearsal [B]:

Mendelssohn Symphony No. 3

Orchestral intro until MM. 68:

Ravel Bolero (whole clarinet solo)

Clarinet Solo:

Eb Clarinet Solo:

Schubert Symphony No. 8 (Unfinished)

Second movement, MM. 66-85: