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Offline pianoboy91

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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.
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Offline birba

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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.
 

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