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Listed below are the audition procedures as well as the various audition requirements/repertoire for each degree level.

Audition Procedures

Auditions are approximately 15 minutes in length (doctoral auditions are approximately 30 minutes in length). Each applicant chooses a first work and the faculty will choose a second and possibly third work from the audition repertoire list provided by the applicant.

Undergraduate Audition Requirements

1. A major work which demonstrates level of proficiency.
2. A Bach transcription.

Graduate Audition Requirements

Please Note: Applicants must perform solo works from memory and may be asked to sight-read and take a test of tuning ability. Music may be used for the orchestral works

1. Two complete works comparable in difficulty and scope to the Sonata of Hindemith or the Impromptu of Fauré.
2. First movement from a standard concerto.
3. Cadenza from The Nutcracker by Tchaikovsky.
4. Entire first harp excerpt of Symphonie fantastique by Berlioz.

Orchestral Performance (Graduate Program)

(Please see Orchestral Performance page for information about this program.)

Doctoral and Professional Studies Audition Requirements

A full-length recital from contrasting style periods including a work from the 20th century and a standard concerto with applicable cadenzas.