Butler School of Music - The University of Texas at Austin

Keyboard Audition Information

Piano (BM)

Prescreening (required): 

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Performance applicants: At least twenty minutes of music representing three of the four following style periods: Baroque, Classical, Romantic, Impressionistic/Contemporary. Memorization is required.

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Music Studies (Music Education) and Bachelor of Arts in Music applicants: At least ten minutes of music representing two of the four following style periods: Baroque, Classical, Romantic, Impressionistic/Contemporary. Memorization is required.

Suggestions for repertoire:

l  Preludes and Fugues by Bach, Scarlatti Sonatas, etc.

l  Sonatas (or movements of Sonatas) by Haydn, Mozart or Beethoven

l  A work from the Romantic period by Chopin, Schumann, Brahms, Mendelssohn, Liszt, etc.

l  A work by Debussy, Ravel, Bartok, Prokofiev, Shostakovich, etc.

Prescreening Submission Instructions: Upload and attach your video prescreening to the Butler School of Music application form and submit by December 1. Audio-only prescreening submissions do not qualify.

Live audition (if invited):

The repertoire requirements for the in-person audition are the same as the prescreening repertoire requirements. You may perform the same works for the prescreening and in-person audition, if invited.

Questions concerning the admissibility of repertoire choices should be addressed to Professor Nel.

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Organ (BM)

Audition material should consist of contrasting works or movements lasting 15 – 20 minutes (memorization not required), and taken from the following:

l  One work of Johann Sebastian Bach

l  A selection of various pieces from different styles/periods

                                                                                                                           Updated on 04/24/2019