Audition Information | New England Conservatory

Keyboard Audition Information

Prescreening portfolios are required of:

• All Composition and Jazz Composition applicants

Prescreening video recordings are required of:

• All Artist Diploma and DMA applicants, regardless of major
• All undergraduate, MM, and GD applicants to:

Piano Performance (BM)

Prescreen Requirements;

All undergraduate and graduate MM & GD applicants must submit the following prescreening repertoire:

1. The first movement of a Classical sonata (e.g., music by Beethoven, Haydn, Mozart, Schubert, or others)
2. A substantial Romantic work (e.g., music by Chopin, Schumann, Brahms, Liszt, Mendelssohn, or others).

DMA applicants should follow the live audition requirements for prescreening. Artist Diploma applicants can find prescreening requirements in the Artist Diploma audition requirements page.

Audition Requirements

1. A piece written before 1750 (e.g., prelude and fugue, or suite or partita by J.S. Bach)
2. A complete Classical sonata
3. A substantial Romantic work
4. A 20th-century or 21st-century work
5. A fast etude

Updated on 09/29/2018