Residential Music Admissions

Application
Music applicants must complete a Music Repertoire Sheet and submit it with their application.

Audition

  • Performance – See performance requirements per instrument below
  • Demonstration of Musicianship:
    • After hearing a music pattern clapped once, clap the pattern
    • After hearing a pitch played once at the piano, sing that pitch
    • After hearing a chord played once at the piano, sing that chord’s highest or lowest pitch
    • After hearing a melodic pattern played once at the piano, sing the pattern
  • Interview – Applicant will be asked to speak about his/her past experiences, future aspirations and knowledge of musical styles and performances

Performance Requirements

Brass

  • Two pieces of contrasting style from the literature for your instrument (The All-State etude/solo is acceptable as one of the pieces.)
  • Scales as appropriate for your instrument
  • Sight reading
Concert Harp
  • Two pieces in contrasting style

Percussion (Applicants should bring their own snare drum.)

  • One composition from each of the following areas:
    • Snare drum
    • Timpani
    • Mallet/keyboard percussion
  • Sight reading

Piano

  • Two pieces in contrasting style from the standard piano literature, preferably memorized; for example, a Bach Invention or Prelude and Fugue, a Classical sonata movement, a Romantic character piece by Mendelssohn, Chopin, Schumann, Liszt, or Grieg, any modern composition
  • Scales: all 24 major and minor keys, three octaves, hands together
  • Sight reading

Strings

  • Two pieces of contrasting style: for example, one etude and one movement from a sonata, concerto or showpiece
  • Three octave scales
  • Sight reading

Woodwinds

  • Two pieces of contrasting style from the literature for your instrument (The All-State etude/solo is acceptable as one of the pieces.)
  • Scales as appropriate to your instrument
  • Sight reading

Voice (An accompanist will be provided.)

  • Two songs of contrasting styles from the standard vocal literature
    • One should be in English
    • One should be classical in nature while the other may be from legitimate musical theatre
    • Vocalists should select songs that demonstrate their vocal ability, musicianship and dramatic expression