Audition Requirements

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

Keyboard

Piano (Performance Major)
All works must be performed from memory.

• All major and minor scales and arpeggios
• A movement or a complete work by Bach, Handel, Scarlatti, or a comparable composer from the Baroque period
• A movement or a complete work by Beethoven, Mozart, Haydn, or a comparable composer from the Classical period
• A complete work by Schubert, Schumann, Brahms, Chopin, Liszt, or a comparable composer from the Romantic period
• A short work by Debussy, Ravel, Copland, Barber, or a comparable composer from the Twentieth Century

Piano (Music Education Major)
One piece must be performed from memory.

• A two- or three-part invention by J.S. Bach
• One movement of a sonata by Haydn, Mozart, or Beethoven
• A work by a Nineteenth- or Twentieth-Century composer

Harpsichord

• Two contrasting works from the French clavecin school (L. Couperin, F. Couperin, J.P. Rameau)
• A work from the English virginal school (optional)
• A major work of J.S. Bach (partita, sonata, English suite, etc.)
• A Scarlatti sonata

Organ

• A work by J.S. Bach
• A movement from a 19th century organ work
• A work written after 1900
• Sight-reading of a hymn and demonstration of piano skills may be expected.