Audition Requirements
KEYBOARD
Keyboard students should be prepared to play all major and minor scales and arpeggios in multiple octaves, know chords and their inversions, as well as be able to play a I-IV-V7-I progression in both Major and minor keys.
Keyboard students should prepare two pieces from different compositions from the standard solo repertoire that show a contrast in style, one fast and the other slow and lyrical. Typical repertoire could include a work by Bach (and Two or Three part Invention, or a Prelude and Fugue from the Well-Tempered Clavier, a movement from a Classical Sonata (Haydn, Mozart or Beethoven), several small character pieces or one large scale work from the Romantic era (Schubert, Chopin, Schumann, Mendelssohn, Brahms, Liszt) a representative work from the Impressionist composers Debussy or Ravel, or works from the 20th and 21st Century by composers such as Rachmaninoff, Prokofiev, Copland, Barber, or Liebermann (to name a few).
Sight-reading will be required.