School of the Arts and Architecture

Department of Music

Audition Requirements

PIANO

UNDERGRADUATE APPLICANTS

REPERTOIRE REQUIREMENTS IN PIANO PERFORMANCE INCLUDING TRANSFER STUDENTS

Repertoire requirements are the same for both the pre-screening CD and any subsequent live audition. Repertoire should be chosen to demonstrate different aspects of the performer's playing.

Applicants for admission to the undergraduate program in piano performance must prepare four works: Three representing a different period from the baroque, classical, romantic, or 20th century repertoire and one etude by Chopin, Liszt, Scriabin, or Rachmanninoff. They should be performed from memory, with exception of some contemporary pieces. If a composition is more than 15 minutes long, at least one movement should be played from memory. At the audition, sight-reading may be required at the level of Schubert’s Ländler.

Only CDs are accepted in the pre-screening.

REPERTOIRE REQUIREMENTS FOR APPLICANTS TO THE

MM AND DMA GRADUATE PROGRAMS IN PIANO PERFORMANCE

Repertoire requirements are the same for both the pre-screening CD and any subsequent live audition. Repertoire should be chosen to demonstrate different aspects of the performer's playing. Applicants for admission to the MM and DMA graduate program in piano performance must prepare five works:

1.- One baroque work

2.- One classical sonata

3.- One work from the romantic or impressionistic period

4.- One work written after 1940 (Debussy, Ravel or Rachmaninoff are not acceptable)

5.- One virtuoso étude by Chopin, Liszt, Rachmaninoff or Scriabin.

All pieces should be performed from memory and complete, i.e. not just parts, sections or movements. At the audition, sight-reading may be required at the level of Mendelssohn’s Song without Words, Chopin’s Mazurkas, or Prokofiev’s Visions Fugitives.

Only CDs are accepted in the pre-screening.