Bachelor of Music | Mannes College the New School for Music

Strings Audition Information

Violin (BM)

Prescreen Repertoire

The prescreening audition must include the following repertoire only. Works not written for solo violin must be recorded with an accompanist.

- The complete first movement of a standard concerto

1. - Two contrasting movements of an unaccompanied Bach sonata or partita. (Do not take repeats. In the B Minor partita, a dance      movement and its "double" count as one movement.)

Audition Repertoire

1. The first movement from any standard concerto with applicable cadenza
2. Two contrasting movements of an unaccompanied Bach sonata or partita. (Do not take repeats. In the B Minor partita, a dance movement and its "double" count as one movement.)
3. A virtuoso concert piece by composers such as Paganini, Sarasate, Vieuxtemps, Wieniawski, or Ysaÿe (any works not written for solo violin must be performed with accompaniment).
4. Optional: A contemporary work written after 1970, including an original composition or arrangement by auditionee

All pieces must be performed from memory except contemporary works (composed since 1970).

Viola (BM)

Prescreen Repertoire

No prescreening recording is required.

Audition Repertoire

1. - Études by Kreutzer-Blumenau, Sitt, or Compagnoli
2. - Two movements from a Bach solo suite (cello transcription)
3. - Two movements from a concerto or sonata chosen by the applicant
4. - Optional: A contemporary work written after 1970, including an original composition or arrangement by auditionee
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Cello (BM)

Prescreen Repertoire

- All applicants for the cello concentration must submit a preliminary audition recording via Acceptd. On the basis of this prescreening, they may be   invited to the required live audition. Cello applicants currently enrolled in a degree program at Mannes are not prescreened.

- The prescreening audition must include the following repertoire only. Works not written for solo cello must be recorded with an accompanist.

- The first movement of a cello concerto from the standard repertoire

1. - Any two movements of a Bach suite for unaccompanied violoncello
2. - A slow and a fast movement from a sonata in contrasting style from 1 and 2
3. - An étude by Popper

Audition Repertoire

- An étude by Popper

1. - Two contrasting movements from a Bach suite for unaccompanied violoncello
2. - A fast and a slow movement from any standard concerto
3. - Optional: A contemporary work written after 1970, including an original composition or arrangement by auditionee

- All pieces must be performed from memory.

Double Bass (BM)

Prescreen Repertoire

No prescreening recording is required.

Audition Repertoire

- Scales and arpeggios in three octaves. Choose one of the following keys: E, F, or G major; e, f, or g minor. 

1. - An etude by Simandl (Volume 2 of Method) or Sturm, Storch-Hrabe, Kreutzer, or Bille.
2. - Two contrasting movements from a concerto or sonata chosen by the applicant.
3. - Two excerpts from the standard orchestral repertoire (Wagner, "Die Meistersinger" Overture; Beethoven Symphony #5 
4.  (Scherzo/Trio); Brahms Symphony #2, etc.)
5. - Optional: A contemporary work written after 1970, including an original composition or arrangement by auditionee
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Harp (BM)

Prescreen Repertoire

No prescreening recording is required.

Audition Repertoire

- A work of the classical period

1. - A 19th-century composition
2. - A 20th- or 21st-century composition

                                                                                                                                                              Updated on 03/27/2019