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AUDITION REQUIREMENTS

Audition Scheduling Process

  1. Review the audition requirements.
  2. Schedule your audition through the Music Office by contacting Ms. Nancy Leamon, or you may visit the office during regular office hours.
  3. Incoming Freshmen and/or Transfer Students must apply to the University.

2010-11 Audition Dates

  • February 20, 2010
  • March 20, 2010
  • April 10, 2010

Division Jury Dates

  • August 14, 2009 9:00-12:00
  • October 1, 2009 1:40-3:00
  • November 5, 2009 1:40-3:00
  • December 1, 2009 4:00-6:00
  • January 5, 2010 9:00-12:00
  • February 11, 2010 1:40-3:00
  • March 4, 2010 1:40-3:00
  • March 18, 2010 1:40-3:00
  • April 20, 2010 4:00-6:00

Required Audition Materials

NOTE: These audition requirements are the MINIMUM requirements for performance grant auditions and for admission to the Music Major. Students auditioning for upper-division studies (300 level or above) should consult with the instructor for their instrument for additional requirements.

Brass

  • Prepared Pieces: two pieces, movements, or etudes of contrasting tempo and style, or a single selection with contrasting sections
  • Scales: Chromatic and all major scales as appropriate for each instrument.
  • Sightreading: May be required

These requirements apply to music minors as well as music majors, and will be requested of students applying for music activities grants and scholarships. Questions? Contact Dr. Erika Schafer (Trumpet), or Dr. Kenyon Wilson (Low Brass).

Guitar

  • Prepared pieces: A piece of your choice AND
    either one etude from Mateo Carcassi's Op. 60 OR one etude from Fernando Sor's (Segovia) Twenty Studies;
  • Scales: All major and minor scales, two octaves
  • Sightreading: Not required

Questions? Contact Dr. Mario Abril.

Keyboard -

  • Music Majors
    • Prepared Pieces: Two MEMORIZED pieces in contrasting styles from standard classical concert repertoire originally composed for solo piano (such as Bach "Prelude and Fugue" from The Well-Tempered Clavier, or a single movement of a Beethoven Piano Sonata)
    • Scales: All major and minor keys, four octaves, hands together
    • Arpeggios: All major and minor keys, four octaves, hands together
    • Sightreading: Required
  • Music Minors
    • Prepared Pieces: Two MEMORIZED piece from the standard intermediate classical repertoire, originally composed for solo piano (e.g. Bach "Invention in Two Voices"; Chopin "Prelude")
    • Scales: All major and minor keys, two octaves, hands together
    • Arpeggios: All major and minor keys, two octaves, hands together
    • Sightreading: Required

Questions? Contact Dr. Sin-Hsing Tsai.

Percussion

  • Prepared Pieces: One piece EACH for snare drum, a mallet instrument, and tympani. (Drum set and multi-surface percussion may also be considered.)

Although students are not required to perform from each of these three areas, students who can demonstrate a competence in all three are normally given preference in admission. Questions? Contact Dr. Monte Coulter.

Strings

  • Prepared Pieces: One solo piece (or movement of a larger solo work) and one etude in contrasting tempi.
  • Scales: major and minor scales in up to four sharps and four flats, two or three octaves

Questions? Contact Associate Professor Donald Zimmer

Voice

  • Prepared Pieces: Two MEMORIZED Art Songs with at least one being in a foreign language - preferably Italian (see below). Singers may also have a Broadway piece IN ADDITION to the two art songs. All pieces must be performed with live piano accompaniment; accompaniment tracks are not acceptable. An accompanist will be provided.
  • Sightreading: Required

Vocal students must be able to read music and prepare songs without rudimentary assistance from the instructor. Questions? Contact Dr. Rebecca St. Goar or Assistant Professor Ronald Ulen.

Woodwind

  • Prepared Pieces: two pieces, movements, or etudes of contrasting tempo and style, or a single selection with contrasting sections (may be performed with accompaniment)
  • Scales: chromatic and all major scales as appropriate for the instrument
  • Sightreading: May be required.

These requirements apply to music minors as well as music majors, and will be requested of students applying for music activities grants and scholarships. Questions? Contact Lecturer Nikolasa Tejero.

Suggested Vocal Literature

We receive many questions each year about the definition of an "art song" and what is appropriate for a vocal audition. It is perhaps easier to indicate what is NOT appropriate. Inappropriate pieces include: popular music, hymns, gospel songs, movie themes, or solos from high school choral pieces. The following sources would provide appropriate audition materials:

  • Collections of Italian Songs and Arias such as Schirmer publications 24 Italian Songs and Arias (of the 17th and 18th centuries) or Hal Leonard publications 26 Italian Songs and Arias
  • Collections of songs for particular voice types such as New Imperial Edition Soprano Songs or Bass Songs, Alfreds' Singers Library of Song, Hal Leonard Standard Vocal Literature, or G. Schirmer Reliquery of English Song
  • Oratorio Arias such as solos from Handel: Messiah or Mendelssohn: Elijah
  • Spiritual solo arrangements by such composers as Moses Hogan, Harry T. Burleigh, Nathaniel Dett, or Roland Carter
  • A Broadway show tune may be offered in addition to other traditional art songs.