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Graduate Music Audition Requirements & Repertoire - UNCSA

Percussion Audition Requirements

 

Instrumental & Composition Applicants
Graduate Audition Dates

Friday, January 25, 2019
Friday, February 8, 2019
Friday, February 22, 2019

Scholarship Consideration
Students who audition after February 9, 2019  will not be eligible for merit scholarship consideration.

 

Percussion (MM)

  •  Master’s degree applicants should prepare at least one orchestral excerpt on snare drum, timpani, and xylophone, and should demonstrate proficiency in 4-mallet keyboard performance using standard concert repertoire for the marimba. This may include, but is not limited to, solos by Abe, Musser, Stout, Stevens, Miki, Tanaka, Burritt, Norton, Ford, or other composers who have written for solo marimba.

 

Suggested audition material for the graduate program includes, but is not limited to the following composers:

  • Snare Drum: Cirone, peters (Advanced Etudes), Pratt, Wilcoxen, Firth, Albright, Delecluse, Aleo
  • Timpani: Firth, Hochrainer, Goodman, Hinger, Friese/Lepak, Delecluse
  • Keyboard: Musser, Bach, Stout, Delecluse, Green

 

If you have any questions about the audition process or requirements, please contact percussion professor John Beck at beckj@uncsa.edu.

 

 

Updated on 10/12/2018