UNT College of Music
Voice Audition Information
A live audition is recommended for entering graduate performance students. The preferred audition date for graduate students is the Friday on-campus audition day. A video screening recording is required to determine advancement in the audition process.
Download screening recording information.
l Audition repertoire requirements for the screening recording are the same as the audition. The screening recording will be uploaded as part of your on-line College of Music application.
Voice (MM)
l Repertoire prepared should include five selections, with at least one selection in each of the following languages: English, French, German, and Italian.
l Two selections must be arias (one may be from an oratorio), and three must be art songs.
Voice (DMA)
l To be accepted into the Doctor of Musical Arts program in Voice Performance, students must prepare an audition program consisting of between twenty and twenty-five minutes of music.
l Selections should be in a variety of styles, and include songs or arias in English, French, Italian, and German. At least one opera or oratorio aria should be included.
l Students should not expect to sing the entire program.
▶During the audition, in addition to singing, applicants to the DMA program will be asked to discuss in 2-3 minutes their
research interests and what related field they intend to pursue. Related field options are opera, vocal pedagogy, performing
arts health, early music, contemporary music, entrepreneurship, music history, ethnomusicology, theory, and conducting.
Teaching Fellows Application and Awarding Process
l The deadline for submitting
Teaching Fellowship Application materials for both current and prospective
students will be December 31. Materials must include:
ü A current resume.
ü A 750 - 900 word teaching
philosophy.
ü A 30’ video recording of a lesson,
including both vocal exercises and the coaching of repertoire.
l Applicants are strongly encouraged
to work with an advanced high school senior or first or second-year
undergraduate student for their sample lesson.
l Faculty will individually choose
their top five applicants, ranking them 1-5, with 1 being the best score.
Rankings will be turned in to the Division Chair by 5:00 p.m. on the Monday
following the last audition day.
l Within one week of the last
audition date, the voice faculty will meet to discuss the results of the
ranking and choose those who will be awarded a TF.
l DMA applicants who are awarded a
TF will be eligible to retain the fellowship for a maximum of the first three
years* of their doctoral study.
l Current DMA students who are
awarded a TF, will be eligible to retain the fellowship up through their third
year* of doctoral study, i.e., one or two years, and it is assumed these will
be consecutive years.
For graduate Vocal Jazz, please see the "Jazz Studies" section here.
Updated on 04/26/2016