Audition Requirements | Mason Gross School of the Arts

Keyboard Audition Information

Piano (BM)
Audition Requirements:
 •  A Prelude and Fugue by J.S. Bach from the Well-Tempered Clavier
 •  A piano sonata by Mozart, Haydn, Beethoven, or Schubert
 •  A substantial work from a major Romantic Era composer (Chopin, Schumann, Brahms, Liszt, Mendelssohn, etc.)
•  A work by a 20th or 21st century composer that illustrates post-romantic compositional techniques.
 •  Sight-reading and other musicianship skills may be examined as part of the audition process.

All repertoire must be performed from memory, except music composed after 1945.

Applicants to the Music Education and Composition programs with specializations in piano must prepare the following for a live audition:

One piece must be performed from memory

 •  A work by J.S. Bach
 •  A sonata-allegro movement of a piano sonata by Mozart, Haydn, Beethoven, or Schubert.
 •  A work from a major Romantic Era composer (Chopin, Schumann, Brahms, Liszt, Mendelssohn, etc.) which is not shorter than five minutes in duration.
 •  A work by a 20th or 21st century composer that illustrates post-romantic compositional techniques
 •  Sight reading skills and other musicianship skills may be examined as part of the audition process.

Organ (BM)

Audition Requirements:
 •  A Prelude and Fugue by J.S. Bach
 •  A movement from a 19th century organ work
 •  A work written after 1900
 •  Sight-reading of a hymn

Updated on 10/13/2018