Request for Keyboard (Piano or Organ) Audition
2008 - 2009 (for students entering in Fall 2009 or Spring 2010)

Completed admissions application, teacher and counselor evaluations must be postmarked no later than December 15 in order to be considered for any ACADEMIC scholarship awards. MUSIC scholarships will be considered by audition through the spring semester.

Students who choose not to participate in or who were not chosen for the Nordan Auditions are encouraged to audition February 7, February 28, or March 7, 2009.

Undergraduate Students should prepare repertoire chosen from:

• One prelude and fugue by J.S. Bach
• One movement from a sonata by Haydn, Mozart or Beethoven
• One representative work from either the Romantic Period (e.g. Chopin, Brahms, Schumann) or the 20th century
• Length of audition is 15 minutes
• All music must be performed from memory

Graduate Students should prepare repertoire chosen from:

• A program of at least three works from different stylistic periods, to include a complete sonata or other large-scale composition
• Length of audition is 30 minutes
• All music must be performed from memory

Artist Diploma Students should prepare repertoire chosen from:

• One work from the Baroque period
• One complete sonata from the Classical period
• One major work from the 19th century
• Two etudes of virtuosity, one of which must be by Chopin
• One work from the 20th or 21st century
• All music must be performed from memory

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