Peabody Institute - Johns Hopkins University

Percussion Audition Information

GPD and DMA Audition Repertoire

A pre-screening video is required. 

Solo Selections for Pre-Screening:

• A major work for either marimba or vibraphone
• One piece from Elliott Carter’s Eight Pieces for Four Timpani
• A solo piece for multiple percussion
• An étude for snare drum

GLOCKENSPIEL

• Two excerpts from the standard orchestral repertoire

MARIMBA

• A major work for either marimba or vibraphone
• A movement from a cello suite or violin sonata or partita by J.S. Bach
• Sight reading will be required

MULTIPLE-PERCUSSION

• A solo piece for multiple percussion (7-15 min duration)

SNARE DRUM

• One etude from either Cirone’s Portraits in Rhythm or Delecluse’s Douze Etudes
• Two excerpts from the standard orchestral repertoire

TIMPANI

• One solo from Elliott Carter’s Eight Pieces for Four Timpani.
• Two excerpts from the standard orchestral repertoire

XYLOPHONE

• Two excerpts from the standard orchestral repertoire

ARTIST DIPLOMA AUDITION REPERTOIRE

AD applicants must prepare a program of no less than 70 minutes duration, representing at least three style periods and including at least two large-scale works

Updated on 09/19/2018