Boyer College of Music and Dance | Temple University

Keyboard Audition Information

Keyboard (MM)

Piano (MM)

l  Contrapuntal Baroque work

l  Sonata by Haydn, Mozart, Beethoven, or Schubert

l  Large Romantic work

l  Impressionistic or Contemporary piece

l  All works to be performed from memory.

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Collaborative Piano/Chamber Music (MM)

  l  The pianist can supply the instrumentalist(s) or the department can provide one for the audition, given enough notice. 

l  All works to be auditioned must be approved by the Program Director one month prior to the audition by sending the repertoire list to music@temple.edu with the subject as "Audition Repertoire for Collaborative Piano".

l  Two fast movements and two slow movements from two of the following works:

ü  Beethoven Sonata for Piano & Violin in F, Op. 24

ü  Mozart Sonata for Piano & Violin in B-flat, KV 454

ü  Brahms Sonata for Piano and Cello in E Minor, Op. 38

ü  Debussy Sonata for Cello and Piano

ü  One or two solo works that demonstrate proficiency at a graduate level (memorization is optional)

l  Sight-reading

Collaborative Piano/Opera Coaching (MM)

l  The pianist can supply the vocalist or the department can provide one for the audition, given enough notice.

l  All works to be auditioned must be approved by the Program Director one month prior to the audition by sending the repertoire list to music@temple.edu with the subject as "Audition Repertoire for Collaborative Piano".

ü  Two songs by different composers, selected from among the following: Mozart, Schubert, Strauss, Wolf

ü  One aria from an opera. One scene excerpt from the standard opera repertoire

ü  One or two solo works that demonstrate proficiency at a graduate level (memorization is optional)

l  Sight-reading

Piano Pedagogy (MM)

l  All works are to be performed from memory:

l  Complete work by Bach (Well-Tempered Clavier, prelude and fugue, suite, toccata, etc.)

l  Sonata by Haydn, Mozart, Beethoven, or Schubert

l  Large Romantic work

l  Impressionistic or Contemporary work

Harpsichord (MM)

·         Work chosen from the English virginalists, Frescobaldi, or Froberger

·         Work from the French baroque repertoire

·         Prelude or fugue of J.S. Bach

·         Scarlatti sonata 

                                                                                                                             Updated on 04/19/2019