Crane School of Music | SUNY Potsdam

Piano Audition Information

Piano (BA)

Undergraduate music performance* candidates must perform four solo works from memory, including:

• - A three-part invention or a prelude and fugue from the Well-Tempered Klavier of J.S. Bach
• - The first movement of a classical sonata by Haydn, Mozart, Beethoven or Clementi
• - Any work of Chopin, Liszt, Brahms, Rachmaninoff, Schumann or Scriabin
• - A work by an impressionist or 20th century composer

All other undergraduate program candidates must perform three solo works from memory, including:

• - A three-part invention or a prelude and fugue from the Well-Tempered Klavier of J.S. Bach
• - The first movement of a classical sonata by Haydn, Mozart, Beethoven or Clementi
• One of the following:
  - Any work of Chopin, Liszt, Brahms, Rachmaninoff, Schumann or Scriabin
  - A work by an impressionist or 20th century composer

* Piano students who are auditioning for two or more majors, one of which is the Bachelor of Music degree in musical performance, should prepare only the undergraduate performance-level audition.

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