Requirements

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

For all Piano applicants:

• All repertoire must be performed from memory except for Contemporary selections.
• All recordings must be audiovisual.
• Movements from multi-movement works may be uploaded in separate audiovisual files. Include the name of the piece or movement being performed at the very beginning of the recording and/or in your uploaded description.
• As we strive to have a more equal representation of genders, ethnicities, and cultures in our repertoire, we encourage applicants to include one work composed by a woman and/or person from a historically underrepresented racial/ethnic group.

Prescreening

Each selection of the prescreening repertoire must be submitted as an unedited audiovisual recording. Applicants will be informed if they are invited to attend an audition or have been denied in prescreening.

Undergraduate

Applicants must have at least 20 minutes of recordings submitted.

• One Allegro movement of a Classical period sonata
• One work from the Romantic era. Individual movements from larger works are acceptable.
• One étude of virtuosity by Chopin, Liszt, Rachmaninoff, Scriabin, Debussy, Prokofiev, Stravinsky, Bartok, or Ligeti
• Additional contrasting works may be included to fulfill the minimum time requirement.

Graduate and Professional Studies Certificate

Applicants must have at least 30 minutes of recordings submitted.

• One Allegro movement of a Classical period sonata
• One work from the Romantic era. Individual movements from larger works are acceptable.
• One étude of virtuosity by Chopin, Liszt, Rachmaninoff, Scriabin, Debussy, Prokofiev, Stravinsky, Bartok, or Ligeti
• Additional contrasting works may be included to fulfill the minimum time requirement.

Artist Diploma

Applicants must have at least 60 minutes of repertoire.

Solo repertoire representing three diverse musical periods. At least two must be large-scale works and performed in full.

Final Audition Repertoire

Undergraduate

Applicants must have at least 30 minutes of repertoire.

• One polyphonic work from the Baroque Period, such as a Prelude and Fugue from the Well-Tempered Clavier, or a fugal movement from a suite.
• One complete Classical work by Haydn, Mozart, Beethoven, or Schubert
• One étude of virtuosity by Chopin, Liszt, Rachmaninoff, Scriabin, Debussy, Prokofiev, Stravinsky, Bartok, or Ligeti
• Two additional works or movements of contrasting style.

Graduate and Professional Studies Certificate

Applicants must have at least 50 minutes of repertoire.

• One complete Classical work by Haydn, Mozart, Beethoven, or Schubert
• One étude of virtuosity by Chopin, Liszt, Rachmaninoff, Scriabin, Debussy, Prokofiev, Stravinsky, Bartok, or Ligeti
• Two additional works or movements of contrasting style.

Artist Diploma

Applicants must have at least 70 minutes of repertoire.

Solo repertoire representing three diverse musical periods. At least two must be large-scale works and performed in full.

For audition dates, please visit Auditions.