Audition and Portfolio Requirements |
Lamont School of Music
Keyboard Audition Information
Fall 2019 audition will take place on: 02/02,
02/09, 02/16/2019 (Saturday)
LIVE AUDITION
Applicants
will preference their top two (2) audition dates for a live audition in Denver
on the Lamont application. All auditions are approximately 20 minutes in
length. The applicant will choose one of the prepared works to perform. The
faculty will choose the second of the prepared works and possibly an additional
work as well.
Applicants
unable to travel to Denver
While
Lamont faculty strongly prefer to have applicants audition on
campus, those unable to travel to Denver for a live audition may submit an
unedited recorded VIDEO audition in lieu of the on-campus audition. Recordings
received after January 15 will be reviewed on a case-by-case basis. This video
should be uploaded through the Lamont application.
AREA-SPECIFIC REQUIREMENTS
Carillon, Organ, Piano
CARILLON
Undergraduate
(BM and BA)
- Three contrasting compositions for carillon
including a prelude by Matthias Van den Gheyn
- Select others from Dutch (eg. Badings,
Franken, Maassen), Flemish (eg. Meulemans, D'hollander, Geysen) or
American composers (eg. Johnson, Courter, Barnes)
- Sight reading to be selected at the audition
Graduate
(MM and certificate in performance)
- Five contrasting compositions including: a
Prelude by Matthias Van de Gehyn
- Select others from Dutch (eg. Badings,
Franken, Maassen), Flemish (eg. Meulemans, D'hollander, Geysen) or
American composers (eg. Johnson, Courter, Barnes)
- Sight reading to be selected at the audition
Artist
Diploma
ORGAN
Undergraduate
(BM and BA)
- Prepare fifteen to twenty minutes of organ
literature you have thoroughly studied. Include a work of J. S. Bach in
addition to a romantic and/or a contemporary composition.
Graduate
(MM and certificate in performance)
- Prepare at least fifteen to twenty minutes
of music including:
- A major work of J. S. Bach (e.g.
a prelude and fugue, trio sonata, large chorale prelude)
- A composition of the Romantic
period
- A contemporary composition
Artist
Diploma
PIANO
Undergraduate
(BM and BA)
- Twenty (20) minutes of memorized repertoire
to include three (3) or four (4) pieces, each from a different period:
- Baroque (e.g., two-part invention
by Bach)
- Classical (e.g., Mozart, Haydn,
Beethoven Sonata - one movement)
- Romantic (e.g., Schubert,
Schumann, Chopin, Brahms)
- Twentieth Century (e.g., Debussy,
Ravel, Schonberg, Bartok, Hindemith)
- Sight reading to be selected at the audition
Undergraduate
(Minor)
- Ten (10) minutes of repertoire to include
three (3) classical-genre pieces or movements
- All major scales, four (4) octaves
- Memorization is not required
Graduate
(MM and certificate in performance)
- Applicants should prepare a solo recital
program of at least 45 minutes of repertoire. Prelude & Fugue and
sonata should be complete; concertos are not accepted. Music should be
memorized and selections should include:
- A major work from the Baroque
period (e.g., Bach, Scarlatti, Rameau, etc.)
- A major work from the Classical
period (e.g., Beethoven, Haydn, Mozart, etc.)
- A major work from the Romantic
period (e.g., Chopin, Schubert, Liszt, Brahms, Schumann, etc.)
- A major work from the 20th
century (e.g., Bartok, Hindemith, Schonberg, Copland, Barber, etc.)
- Sight reading to be selected at the audition
Pedagogy
Applicants
In
addition to the graduate audition requirements above, applicants must
submit/complete the following:
- A research paper related to music education/pedagogy
(as per undergraduate work),
- A 20-minute video of teaching, and
- An interview with the piano pedagogy
faculty.
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Updated on 08/23/2018