Frost School of Music | University of Miami

Percussion Audition Information

Prescreen is required on the following: Choral Conducting, Classical Flute, Classical Tuba, Classical Viola, Classical Violin, Jazz Instrumentalists/Vocalists, Keyboard Degrees, Orchestral/Wind Conducting

Applicants for Master of Music and Doctor of Musical Arts

Snare Drum

• Demonstrate roll in various dynamics (pp crescendo to FF and decrescendo to pp)
• Perform both: a Concert etude and a rudimental solo of significant musical sophistication and technical difficulty

Keyboard Percussion

• 4 Mallet solos or movements for Marimba or Vibraphone of significant musical sophistication and technical difficulty (duration ca. 10 minutes)

Orchestral Percussion (Section 1) or Multiple Percussion (Section 2)

Section 1 Orchestral

• Timpani: 4 standard excerpts from the orchestral repertoire
• Snare Drum: 5 standard excerpts from the orchestral repertoire
• Xylophone: 4 standard excerpts from the orchestral repertoire
• Glockenspiel: 3 standard excerpts from the orchestral repertoire
• Tambourine: 2 standard excerpts from the orchestral repertoire
• Cymbals: 2 standard excerpts from the orchestral repertoire

Section 2 Solo

• One Multi-Percussion solo or movement of significant musical sophistication and technical difficulty (duration ca. 10 minutes):
  
  
• Xylophone: Messaien L’Oiseaux Exotiques (reh. 6-7 and reh. 26-28)
• Tambourine: Dvorak Carnival Overture
• Cymbals: Tchaikovsky Overture to Romeo and Julliette

Timpani

• One solo of significant musical sophistication and technical difficulty (duration ca. 5 minutes)

Applicants for Artist Diploma

Snare Drum

• Two Concert etudes from Douze Etudes pour Caisse-Claire by Jacques Delecluse. Requirement: Etude no. 9

Keyboard Percussion

• 4 Mallet Contemporary Solo (or movements) for Marimba or Vibraphone of significant musical sophistication and technical difficulty (duration ca. 10 minutes)

Timpani

• Two solos from Eight Pieces for Timpani by Elliott Carter

Free Choice

Choose one of the options below:

• Option 1: One multi-percussion, theatrical percussion, or keyboard solo chosen by the applicant, further revealing their musical taste and personality
• Option 2: 20 standard orchestral excerpts played on at least 5 different disciplines. Repertoire is to be chosen by the applicant

For scholarship and teaching assistantship consideration, all applicants must audition live on-campus.

Updated on 09/03/2018