Audition Repertoire- Master's Auditions-

[Barbosa-piano]

Hello everybody!

I am currently searching for good ideas for audition repertoire!
Any suggestions are welcomed and encouraged!

The typical format I guess- Sonata, Etude, Contemporary, Bach WTC, etc.

Thanks in advance!

[philb]

It would be easier to recommend pieces if I knew what your current repertoire looked like, and perhaps, where you wish to apply...

[Barbosa-piano]

Sorry- That's true!
I am mainly looking at Texas schools- I am currently at Baylor University.
TCU, UT, UNT- I haven't decided on which out of state schools  I want to apply to yet; possibly Peabody, U. of Michigan... Any ideas there would be welcomed as well!

My repertoire for this semester (played in three recitals, one more to go!)

Haydn: F minor Variations
Prokofieff: Sonata No. 2 in D minor
Bach: Italian Concerto
Gottschalk: Grand Triumphal Fantasy on the Brazilian Natl. Anthem

[49410enrique]

Sorry- That's true!
I am mainly looking at Texas schools- I am currently at Baylor University.
TCU, UT, UNT- I haven't decided on which out of state schools  I want to apply to yet; possibly Peabody, U. of Michigan... Any ideas there would be welcomed as well!

My repertoire for this semester (played in three recitals, one more to go!)

Haydn: F minor Variations
Prokofieff: Sonata No. 2 in D minor
Bach: Italian Concerto
Gottschalk: Grand Triumphal Fantasy on the Brazilian Natl. Anthem

dude! i hope you got my text. again i'm super sorry i could not make the june recital! if you play the program again in the area LET ME KNOW ASAP so I can try to make it (I have class Mon-Thurs but if you do a Fri, sat or sun program and I am in town I want to catch it in person).

let me 'dwell' a little on this some more, the repertoire nerd that i am and having heard you played many times i'll try and come up wtih some ideas to consider or at least if you don't care for them you'll at least be that much further on your way to deciding what you will like (i.e. scratch off the list, that sort of thing).

i'll be in the practice rooms through out the summer finishing my summer reprotire and starting on the fall pieces so we'll talk again soon. promise!

[49410enrique]

just some prelim ideas to see what your feeling (i.e. tastes, preferences for something 'different' from what you just finished with , what satisfies audition requirements, etc., all are important to consider!)

sonata what are your thoughts and feelings on Beethoven' Sonata no. 18 in E-flat major, op. 31 no. 3 "The Hunt"
sample, pretty sure this is not the whole thing I almost swear the entire sonata occupies more than the 20 mintues this video serves up (but the 20 it gives us is really great!)

if you want to go earlier but not quite the standard Beethoven (early), Hummel (early), Mozart or Haydn, there's Clementi:

jsut the 1st mvnt here

alternatively if you want to move a but later down the timeline , what about the Scriabin Sonata No 1?

LOVE THIS "FUNEBRE"!

Baroque, hmm would depend on the specific requirements but what about a CPE Bach work?
the Fantasia in F sharp minor "C.P.E. Bachs Empfindungen" (CPE Bach's Feelings)
is really something

modern,old modern or 'newer' modern? depends how long we go, what about some Griffes? Very much sounds like "Debussy"  without sounding too derivative, short. first 4 minutes or so
C GRIFFES FOUNTAIN OF ACQUA PAOLA

Etudes, hmm are you wanting to stick to the standard romantic masters? are able and willing to venture just bit off the norm?
this is a big and varied field do we want slow and lyrical, fast and in your face flash and fireworks?
what about this, so incredibly beautiful!
Szymanowski - Etude No. 3, Op. 4

or maybe some Glazunov?
this concert etude is so freakin beatufil, I just about blow my speakers out with the volume increase i hit when i play it
Glazunov Op.31 Etude no.2 Allegro

let me knwo it we're on the right track. this is fun.