Admissions Music Auditions Graduate Info

Audition Requirements

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

Brass | Jazz | Graduate Keyboard | Percussion
Strings | Voice | Woodwinds

Classical Percussion

Graduate program
Master of Music, Doctor of Musical Arts, Artist Diploma

You should be prepared to perform ALL the selections on ALL instruments.

Snare drum

  • Three orchestral excerpts
  • One Delecluse etude
  • Sight reading

Timpani

  • Three orchestral excerpts
  • One of the 8 pieces for Timpani by Elliot Carter
  • Sight reading

Xylophone

  • Three orchestral excerpts
  • One solo piece

Glock

  • Three orchestral excerpts

Marimba

  • Perform two pieces in contrasting styles. For example: one piece could be by J.S. Bach and the other could be a contemporary piece. Or two contemporary pieces but in two different composition styles.