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Listed below are the audition/prescreening procedures as well as
the various audition requirements/repertoire for each degree level.
Prescreening Procedures
All piano applicants for the Master of Music, Doctor
of Musical Arts, Professional Studies and Artist Diploma programs
are required to submit a CD or DVD for prescreening purposes, in
order to receive an invitation to a live audition in New York City.
(Applicants applying to the Bachelor of Music program do not need
to submit a prescreen recording). The recording must include all
of the repertoire as listed below. It is not required that the format
be a professional or studio recording, but the sound quality must
be as good as possible. All recordings must be unedited.
Bachelor of Music
No prescreening recording is required.
Master of Music
Two works of contrasting style. You may include individual
movements of multi-movement works. Playing time should total approximately
15-20 minutes. Please choose works that best represent your individual
artistry.
Professional Studies, Doctor of Musical Arts,
Artist Diploma
A complete solo recital program representing at least
three contrasting style periods. Playing time should total approximately
60-70 minutes.
Audition Procedures
- Auditions are approximately 10 minutes in length (doctoral auditions
are approximately 30 minutes in length). Each applicant chooses
their first work and the faculty will choose a second, and possibly
third, work from the audition repertoire list provided by the
applicant.
- Applicants must perform all works from memory.
Undergraduate Audition Requirements
- Prelude and fugue or another work of J.S. Bach which contains
a fugue.
- Complete sonata by Haydn, Mozart, Schubert, or Beethoven.
- Complete work or works from the 19th or 20th centuries.
Graduate Audition Requirements
- Prelude and fugue or another work of J.S. Bach which contains
a fugue.
- Complete sonata by Haydn, Mozart, Schubert, or Beethoven.
- Complete work of the 19th century.
- Complete work of the 20th century.
Doctoral and Professional Studies Audition
Requirements
Full-length recital which includes works from at least four contrasting
style periods including a 20th-century work. |
