Piano Forum

Piano Street Magazine:
Watch the Chopin Competition 2025 with us!

Great news for anyone who loves Chopin’s music! Piano Street’s Chopin Competition tool now includes all 1,848 recorded performances from the Preliminary Round to Stage 3. Dive in and listen now! Read more

Pages: [1] Go Down

Topic: Graduate Auditions (Read 3653 times)

pianoboy91

PS Silver Member
Jr. Member
Posts: 26

Graduate Auditions

on: April 14, 2012, 06:37:57 PM

I will be graduating with my Bachelor's degree in a couple of years and I am trying to decide what I should bring to auditions for Graduate Schools. Any suggestions would be helpful...Here is a list of what I am considering (most of it anyway):

1. Bach Fantasia and Fugue in A minor, BWV 904
2. Piano Sonata No. 26 in E flat major (Les Adieux) Op. 81a
3. Brahms Rhapsody Op. 79 No. 1 in B minor
4. Some sort of 20th or 21st C. style piece, I was considering Debussy.
5. A concert Etude: probably one or two of the Chopin Etudes, or possibly of the Rachmaninoff Etude-Tableau.

Logged

"Anything worth doing, is worth doing well"

birba

PS Silver Member
Sr. Member
Posts: 3725

Re: Graduate Auditions

Reply #1 on: April 14, 2012, 06:40:29 PM

I would change 3 and 4. You should present an important major romantic work. And you should present a contemporary piece. At least from the 1950's on.