Audition Requirements

Follow the links to view audition requirements in the following disciplines:

(MM, DMA, AD)

Note: Sight-reading and ensemble skills may be tested during the audition.

Master of Music applicants are expected to present an audition equivalent to a BM degree recital

DMA and AD applicants should present an audition at the level of a Master of Music degree recital

Piano - Solo Program
A program typical of a degree recital which includes:

• Baroque
• Classical
• Romantic
• Impressionistic or contemporary styles

Piano - Collaborative Program (MM, DMA)

• A complete instrumental sonata (e.g. Beethoven, Brahms, Faure, Prokofieff, etc)
• An instrumental work by a different composer (may be short)
• 6 songs representing at least 3 languages, 4 composers, and 3 style periods
• An opera aria
• A short solo piano work (may be performed with score)

Applicants in Collaborative piano are encouraged to bring musicians with whom they have already performed; the assistance of on-site musicians is possible but must be arranged at least one month is advance. If using on-site performers, please note that your audition choices may have to be revised to suit the repertoire of the other performers.

Harpsichord

• A work from the English Virginal school
• An early 17th-Century Italian work (Frescobaldi, M. Rossi, etc.)
• An unmeasured prelude (L. Couperin, etc.)
• A major work by F. Couperin or Rameau
• A Scarlatti sonata
• A major work by J.S. Bach (Partita, English Suite, etc.)

Organ:
Master of Music in Organ

• A work from the North German or French Classic repertoire
• A major Prelude and Fugue by J.S. Bach
• A major work by Franck, Mendelssohn, Reger, or other 19th century organ composer
• A work written after 1960
• Sight-reading of a short trio will be expected.

• A work from the North German or French Classic repertoire
• One of the chorale-based trios from the Leipzig Chorales or Clavierübung III, or one movement from one of the Six Organ Sonatas by J.S. Bach
• A major Prelude and Fugue by J.S. Bach
• A major work by Franck, Mendelssohn, Reger, or other 19th century organ composer
• A work written after 1960
• Sight-reading of a short trio will be expected.