Undergraduate Audition l Eastman School of Music

Keyboard Audition Information

Piano (BM)

2019 Rochester Audition Dates: February 8th, February 15th and February 22nd

Pre-screening requirement:  

l  Before December 1, all undergraduate piano performance applicants seeking a live audition must upload a preliminary audition recording

ü  The prescreening recording must be a minimum of 30 minutes in duration of solo music.

ü  Repertoire requirements for the pre-screening recording must  include at least two works representing different styles, plus one virtuoso etude by Chopin, Liszt, Rachmaninoff,  Scriabin, Debussy, Prokofiev, Stravinsky, Bartok or Ligeti (etudes in slow tempos such as Chopin Op 10 #3, Op 10 #6, Op 25 #7 or Rachmaninoff Op 39 #2 are not acceptable). 

Live Audition Repertoire 

l  Applicants must prepare an audition program to be performed from memory, including: 

ü  One virtuoso concert etude (see etude requirement listed above)

ü  A complete work by Bach that contains a fugue

ü  A complete Classical sonata by Haydn, Mozart, Beethoven, or Schubert

ü  A complete Romantic work from the 19th century

ü  A complete work from the 20th or 21st century

Piano – Majors in Composition, Music Education, or Theory

2019 Rochester Audition Dates: February 1st, February 8th, February 15th and February 22nd

l  Applicants for each degree should prepare three contrasting pieces from three different stylistic periods, including one piece by Bach.

l  Selections should be performed from memory.

l  Student compositions and pieces in jazz or popular styles are not acceptable for the purpose of this audition.

l  Applicants who apply in these majors and audition on piano are not compared to applied piano majors.

l  Applicants in jazz studies and contemporary media should refer to the section on jazz for audition requirements.

Organ (BM)

2019 Rochester Audition Dates: February 8th, February 15th, February 22nd

Organ applicants must audition either on-campus or by self-prepared recording.  Regional auditions are not offered for organ. 

l  At least one work by Bach or another Baroque composer

l  Two selections by romantic or contemporary composers, one primarily lyrical and one primarily virtuosic