An accompanist is neither required nor provided. You may bring an accompanist at your own discretion.

Undergraduate and Music Minor

• Two contrasting movements from Bach solo sonatas or partitas.
• Scales with arpeggios and double stops
• The first movement of a standard concerto such as Mendelssohn, Vieuxtemps, Wienyavsky, Bruch, Lalo, or Viotti.

Master of Music

Applicants are required to submit prescreening recordings by December 1. Upload the videos to the Digital Portfolio section of the College of Music Supplemental Application. You will be given access to the Digital Portfolio after the College of Music Supplemental Applicantion is submitted.  The recording quality and literature must be sufficient to make a reasonable judgment of ability. Recordings will be reviewed by a committee from the string area beginning the week following the December 1 deadline. You will be notified via email as to whether or not you have been invited for a live audition. Recordings received after December 1 will be considered on a case-by-case basis.

Live Audition:

• Two movements from Bach solo sonatas in G minor, A minor, or C major. Fuga is required.
• One of the 24 Paganini caprices
• The first movement of a major concerto such as Tchaikovsky, Sibelius, Brahms, Prokofiev, Beethoven, Schostakovich, Paganini, Mendelssohn.

Doctor of Musical Arts

Applicants are required to submit prescreening recordings by December 1. Upload the videos to the Digital Portfolio section of the College of Music Supplemental Application. You will be given access to the Digital Portfolio after the College of Music Supplemental Applicantion is submitted.   recording quality and literature must be sufficient to make a reasonable judgment of ability. Recordings will be reviewed by a committee from the string area beginning the week following the December 1 deadline. You will be notified via email as to whether or not you have been invited for a live audition. Recordings received after December 1 will be considered on a case-by-case basis.

Live Audition:

• A complete solo sonata or partita by Bach
• A Paganini caprice
• A major concerto
• A virtuoso piece
•  A twenty-minute performance from the recital program above
• A ten-minute lecture on the music performed
• Click here for general information about the DMA audition format.

Performance Diploma

Applicants are required to submit prescreening recordings by December 1. Upload the videos to the Digital Portfolio section of the College of Music Supplemental Application. You will be given access to the Digital Portfolio after the College of Music Supplemental Applicantion is submitted.  The recording quality and literature must be sufficient to make a reasonable judgment of ability. Recordings will be reviewed by a committee from the string area beginning the week following the December 1 deadline. You will be notified via email as to whether or not you have been invited for a live audition. Recordings received after December 1 will be considered on a case-by-case basis.

Live Audition:

• A complete solo sonata or partita by Bach
• A complete concerto from the following: Brahms; Glazunov; Lalo, Symphony Espagnole; Paganini, No. 1 or No. 2; Saint-Saëns, B minor; Sibelius; Tchaikovsky; Vieuxtemps, No. 5
• Two virtuoso pieces from the following: Chausson, Poème; Kreisler, Recitativo and Scherzo; Ravel, Tzigane; Saint-Saëns, Introduction and Rondo Capriccioso, Havanaise; Sarasate, Carmen Fantasy, Habanera, Zapateado; Tchaikovsky, Waltz, Scherzo; Wieniawski, Polonaise (D or A), Scherzo Tarantella, Variations on an Original Theme