Pre-Screening
Pre-screening videos must be submitted with your application by the following deadlines:
- Early Decision (Undergraduate only): November 1st
- Spring Admission (MM, GPD only): with your application
- Regular Decision: December 1st
All graduate candidates must perform/record with a pianist (with the exception of the solo unaccompanied piece and the excerpts). While undergraduate candidates are not required to do so, it is strongly encouraged.
The pre-screening video must include:
- Two contrasting movements from a sonata by Johann Sebastian Bach or two contrasting movements from either Mozart Concerto KV 313 or KV 314 (must include cadenzas)
- A complete unaccompanied work for solo flute from any period
- A third contrasting complete work of the candidate’s choice (typically a work for flute and piano such as a sonata, a concerto, or from the French school)
- Two orchestral excerpts:
- Mendelssohn: Scherzo from A Midsummer Night’s Dream (2 measures before P to the end)
- Beethoven: Leonore Overture No. 3 (mm. 328-360)
Please note that etudes are not considered acceptable audition repertoire.
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Auditions
Applicants are urged to perform repertoire which best represents their performance level. Applicants who successfully pass the pre-screening will be invited to audition.
Bachelor of Music, Master of Music, & Graduate Performance Diploma
- A complete sonata by Johann Sebastian Bach or a complete concerto by Mozart (including cadenzas)
- A complete unaccompanied work for solo flute
- A third contrasting complete work of the candidate’s choice (typically a work for flute and piano such as a sonata, a concerto, or from the French school)
- 3 contrasting orchestral excerpts of the candidate’s choice
- Sight-reading may be requested at the audition
Artist Diploma & Doctor of Musical Arts
- A program of no less than 70 minutes duration, representing at least three style periods and including:
- At least two large-scale works which best reflects the advanced standard of the candidate
- One work written after 1975
- One unaccompanied solo piece
- 3 contrasting orchestral excerpts of the candidate’s choice
- Sight-reading may be requested at the audition