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Suggested Audition Materials
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Clarinet
An accompanist is neither required nor provided. You may bring an accompanist at your own discretion.
Undergraduate and Music Minor
- Perform major and minor scales (two octaves).
- Any studies from the Rose Etudes.
- A solo to demonstrate technique, tone, and musicianship
Master of Music
- Prescreening
- Prior to being invited to a live audition, applicants are required to submit prescreening recordings. 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.
- Videos are due no later than Dec 1
- Maximin of 15 minutes of uneditted repertoire selected from the on-campus audition requirements.
- Prior to being invited to a live audition, applicants are required to submit prescreening recordings. 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.
- On-Campus Audition
- Three contrasting pieces or movements from multi-movement works, which demonstrate technique command, tone quality, and musicianship.
Doctor of Musical Arts
- Prescreening
- Prior to being invited to a live audition, applicants are required to submit prescreening recordings. 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.
- Videos are due no later than Dec 1
- Maximin of 15 minutes of uneditted repertoire selected from the on-campus audition requirements.
- Prior to being invited to a live audition, applicants are required to submit prescreening recordings. 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.
- On-Campus Audition
- Prepare a thirty minute lecture-recital of three or four contrasting pieces providing brief oral program notes for each piece.
- Click here for general information about the DMA audition format.
Performance Diploma
Although repertoire selection and performance in the audition bear great importance, final acceptance is based on the demonstration of talent, dedication, and the desire to achieve excellence rather than solely upon the level of proficiency already achieved.
- Prescreening
- Prior to being invited to a live audition, applicants are required to submit prescreening recordings. 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.
- Videos are due no later than Dec 1
- Maximin of 15 minutes of uneditted repertoire selected from the on-campus audition requirements.
- Prior to being invited to a live audition, applicants are required to submit prescreening recordings. 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.
- On-Campus Audition (Comparable substitutions are allowed)
- One Concerto such as:
- Bolcom, Concerto
- Bozza, Concerto
- Copland, Concerto
- Corigliano, Concerto
- Crusell, Concerto in F minor
- Francaix, Concerto
- Gotkovsky, Two Concertos
- Hindemith, Concerto
- Nielsen, Concerto
- Spohr, Concertos
- Tomasi, Concerto
- Tower, Concerto
- Weber, Second Concerto in Eb
- One Sonata or work with piano
- Bassett, Arias
- Brahms, Sonata No. 1 in F minor
- Brahms, Sonata No. 2 in Eb Major
- D. G Mason Sonata
- Francaix, Tema con Variazioni
- Kokai, Four Hungarian Dances
- Martinu, Sonatina
- Muczynski, Time Pieces
- Prokofiev, Sonata
- Reger, 1st or 3rd Sonata
- Rossini, Theme and Variations
- Tedesco, Sonata
- Tower, Fantasy
- One Unaccompanied work
- Bassett, Soliloquies
- Berio, Sequenza IX
- Boulez, Domaines
- Carter, Gra
- Denisov, Sonata
- Donatoni, Clair
- Gotkovsky, Solo Sonata
- Larsen, Dancing Solo
- Martino, A Set for Clarinet
- Messiaen, Abime des Oiseaux
- Penderecki, Prelude
- Ran, Three Scenes
- Ran, Monologue for an Actor
- Stockhausen, Amour
- Stockhausen, Harlequin
- Stockhausen In Freundschaft
- Tower, Wings
- Six Orchestral excerpts
- Bartok, Suite from the Miraculous Mandarin
- Beethoven, Symphonies 4, 6, and 8
- Brahms, Symphonies 1 and 3
- Kodaly, Dances of Galanta
- Mendelssohn, Scherzo from A Midsummer Night's Dream, Op. 61, No. 1
- Rachmaninov, Symphony No. 2
- Ravel, Daphnis and Chloe, Suite No. 2
- Rimsky-Korsakov, Capriccio Espagnol
- Rimsky-Korsakov, Suite from the Opera Le coq d'or
- Rimsky-Korsakov, Scheherazade, Op. 35
- Shostakovich, Symphony No. 1, Symphony No. 5, Symphony No. 9
- Stravinsky, Firebird Suite
- Tchaikovsky, Symphonies 4, 5, and 6
- One additional work from any genre that showcases strengths both musically and technically.
- One Concerto such as:
