Jacobs School of Music

Keyboard Audition Information

Along with the application to the Jacobs School of Music, all applicants in piano must submit a screening recording and repertoire list online to the Office of Music Admissions. This recording and repertoire list must be submitted online to the admissions office no later than December 1, 2018.  (For DM applicants only, the submission deadline is January 7, 2019). Recordings will be reviewed by a committee from the Piano Department shortly after the deadline. We encourage you to apply as early as possible and cannot guarantee that recordings which are submitted after the December 1 deadline will be heard by the committee or considered for advancement in the admission process. We encourage you to produce your recording well in advance of the deadline, because illness and emergency at the last moment could result in a late submission.

Screening repertoire should meet repertoire requirements (below) but may differ from the final audition program.

Be certain that the recording is of good quality, and your recording should be produced without any artificial enhancement such as echo or electronic reverb. You should make your recording on a piano of adequate quality that is in tune.

All recordings must be submitted online please click here to submit your pre-screening materials.

*Please Note: Applicants who are required to submit pre-screening will submit their letters of recommendation to Acceptd.

Bachelor of Music (BM)

B.M. applicants should prepare:

(1) One Prelude and Fugue from J.S. Bach, Well-Tempered Clavier;

(2) One complete Beethoven Sonata (except Op. 49, Nos. 1 and 2 and Op. 79);

(3) A romantic work demonstrating considerable technical accomplishment; and

(4) A twentieth or twenty-first-century work of the applicant's choice.

All pieces must be presented from memory.  Applicants must also submit a complete repertoire of works performed or studied at the time of application to Indiana University Jacobs School of Music.  Please email the repertoire to musicadm@indiana.edu.

BME, BM composition, BSOF

All B.M.E., B.M. Composition, and B.S.O.F. applicants should prepare:

(1) One Prelude and Fugue from J.S. Bach, Well-Tempered Clavier;

(2) Any first movement of a Sonata by Beethoven, Haydn, or Mozart; and

(3) A short work from the nineteenth or twentieth century.

All pieces must be presented from memory. Applicants must also submit a complete repertoire of works performed or studied at the time of application to Indiana University Jacobs School of Music. Please email the repertoire to musicadm@indiana.edu.

Updated on 09/12/2018