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.
Topic: college auditions