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Offline dj

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college auditions
on: August 17, 2003, 02:46:31 AM
hey, this is for those of you who either majored in or are currently majoring in music at college. what did you play for your auditions? im asking because in a couple of years im probably gonna be auditioning for colleges and i want to have some idea what level im gonna have to be at if i wanna do well. o and could you put what college you went 2 also? thanx.
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Re: college auditions
Reply #1 on: September 06, 2003, 04:46:02 PM
Well, I know this won't help you at all. When I went to college I decided to play the piano. so, I worked on Greensleeves for a couple of days, played it for my teacher, she accepted and I never looked back. My school has a pretty open enrollment policy. NOw, to get into freshman piano. I performed Kabalevsky's Toccatina, Bach's Bouree from his suite in E minor, a couple scales, Brahms Waltz in A-flat major, and again I got in.

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Re: college auditions
Reply #2 on: September 06, 2003, 08:14:48 PM
Hi, dj, I am not in college now, but I am auditioning for many different colleges next year and I can give you some idea about the different audition requirements.

Generally, more established and renowned colleges will want pianists that can immeditealy perform, though there are exceptions, hence most of them will require an approximately half an hour plus of performance repertoire. Normally they structure the audition such as this :

- A Bach Prelude and Fugue ( many colleges demand you to play this )
- A complete classical sonata ( some colleges demand more mature sonatas such as late Beethoven or Mozart )
- A substantial romantic piece (  example Chopin Ballades, Scherzi  , or Sonatas )
- A substantial 20th century piece ( example Prokofiev Toccata, Bartok Sonata )
- A virtuosic etude or more ( some colleges require 2 etudes )
- Complete knowledge of all major and minor scales, arpeggios, etc.

Generally, u will need to prepare 2 larger scale works, one of them classical, and one of them being romantic or 20th century. With this structure of audition repertoire, you can virtually audition to any colleges in the world. However there are many decent colleges that have a more relaxed audition requirement and many of them are willing to recognise pianists that have potentials, even if they do not do very well for auditions.

I would suggest you to look up the colleges' website. All of them put their audition requirements on the website and you can get a better picture. All the best to you.

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Re: college auditions
Reply #3 on: September 13, 2003, 05:01:36 AM
yes yes i know the basic structure of the college audition system but i was more wondering what all you college goers played specifically so i kind of have an idea of the level of performance i will need 2 b at.
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Re: college auditions
Reply #4 on: September 13, 2003, 05:20:16 PM
To enter the conservatory of las rosas I was asked to play, from a program I presented:

Prelude 8 book 1 (bach) WTC
Debussy's octave etude
last movement from beethovens op.27 n1 (not the moonlight)

I was accepted, of course, they chose from a bigger program that included all the works posted above.

In march I will audition for my master's with Dimitri Bashkirov in Reina Sofia... Ill play

Beethoven op. 90
Debussy octave etude (I love that one, Ive played for roughly 4 years)
Chopin fantasie polonaise
Prokofiev sonata 5
For a good laugh, check out my posts in the audition room, and tell me exactly how terrible they are :)
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