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
• Late Admission: May 1st

All candidates must perform/record with a pianist (with the exception of the solo unaccompanied piece and the excerpts).

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