Piano Audition Material

Undergraduate and Music Minor

Applicants for the Bachelor of Music in Performance are required to submit a prescreening recording by Dec 1 (video required).  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 Application is submitted.  If video is not possible, please write the College of Music Admissions Office to request an exception.  Recordings will be reviewed by a committee from the piano area beginning the week following the December 1st deadline. You will be notified via email as to whether or not you have been invited for a live audition. The recording quality must be sufficient to make a reasonable judgment of ability and should contain three major works of contrasting periods.

If you are a pianist auditioning for Composition, Music Education, Bachelor of Arts in Music or the Music Minor, a prescreening recording is not required. 

Live audition:

• A work by J.S. Bach (two or three part invention, a Suite, or equivalent);
• A fast movement from a Haydn, Mozart or Beethoven sonata;
• A 19th or 20th century composition;
• Be prepared to play all major and harmonic minor scales and arpeggios in parallel motion, four octaves;
• Memorization is expected