Requirements

If you have questions about your repertoire selections within these requirements, please first consult with your current private teacher or other mentor.

All Percussion applicants are required to submit unedited audiovisual recordings fulfilling the prescreening requirements listed below with the application. Applicants will be informed if they are invited to attend an audition or have been denied in prescreening.

Works with piano are not required to be performed with a pianist or piano recording.

Prescreening

Undergraduate

• One two-minute solo étude on timpani
• One two-minute solo étude on mallets (two OR four mallet)
• One two-minute solo étude on snare drum

Graduate and Postgraduate

• One two-minute solo étude on timpani
• One two-minute solo étude on mallets (two AND four mallet)
• One two-minute solo étude on snare drum

Final Audition

Undergraduate

• Mallet percussion

  • One two-mallet piece (your choice)
  • One four-mallet piece (your choice)
• Snare drum
  • One étude: Cirone, Peters, Delecluse
  • One rudimental: Wilcoxon, Pratt
• Timpani
  • One étude: Hochrainer, Goodman, Woud, etc.
• Sight-Reading (Mallets or Snare Drum)

Graduate and Postgraduate

• Mallet percussion

  • One two-mallet piece (your choice)
  • One four-mallet piece (your choice)
  • 2-3 orchestral excerpts on xylophone, glockenspiel, and/or vibraphone
• Snare drum
  • One étude: Delecluse, Peters, Macarez
  • One rudimental: Wilcoxon, Pratt, Tompkins
  • 2-3 orchestral excerpts
• Timpani
  • One étude: Hochrainer, Woud, Delecluse, etc.
  • 3-4 orchestral excerpts

For audition dates, please visit Auditions.