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Music Education Auditions & Interviews
Undergraduate Requirements and Dates
Audition Schedule and Application Deadline Dates
Principal Instruments (links to audition requirements)
General undergraduate audition and interview information
Choral Music Education
Prepare to audition in both piano and voice. You will declare either piano or voice as your principal, with the other as a secondary instrument. An information session with the Music Education Department will also be scheduled on your audition day.
Piano Principal:
- For the piano audition, prepare a work of J. S. Bach, a movement of a classical sonata and a romantic or contemporary work of your choice. Memorization is preferred. Sight-reading, harmonization, and transposition skills will be tested in order to determine your keyboard placement.
- For the voice audition, prepare two memorized songs. An accompanist will be provided when auditioning in Ann Arbor if requested in advance. If you have no private voice teacher, ask your school or religious choir director for assistance in preparing for the audition. Aural skills may also be assessed at Ann Arbor auditions; auditionees will hear several short phrases played at the keyboard and be asked to sing them.
Voice Principal:
- For the voice audition, prepare two memorized songs in any language. An accompanist will be provided when auditioning in Ann Arbor if requested in advance. Aural skills may also be assessed at Ann Arbor auditions; auditionees will hear several short phrases played at the keyboard and be asked to sing them.
- For the piano audition sight-reading, harmonization, and transposition skills will be tested in order to determine your keyboard placement.
Instrumental Music Education
Applicants must complete a performance audition following the specific requirements listed for that instrument (see below). Applicants whose principal instrument is piano will also be required to demonstrate proficiency on a band or orchestral instrument, sufficient to fulfill the curriculum’s instrumental ensemble requirement. Indicate both piano and this second instrument on the application.
An information session with the Music Education Department will also be scheduled on your audition day.
Principal Instruments
- Organ
- Piano
- Strings
- Cello
- Double Bass
- Harp
- Viola
- Violin
- Winds and Percussion
- Bassoon
- Clarinet
- Euphonium
- Flute
- French Horn
- Oboe
- Percussion
- Saxophone
- Trombone
- Trumpet
- Tuba
- Voice
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