Doctor of Musical Arts in Performance

General Audition Requirements

Applicants should prepare a sixty-minute program from which the auditioning committee will select approximately 40 minutes for public presentation. The program should include works of contrasting historical periods and styles, chosen to demonstrate musicianship and technical proficiency. Repertoire requirements for specific instruments and voice are listed below.

In addition, each applicant will be interviewed at the time of the audition. Topics may include, but are not limited to the following:

• literature performed at the audition;
• general repertoire of the instrument or voice,
• technical aspects related to the instrument or voice.

Auditions may be arranged through the School of Music Graduate Office (706-542-2743; shlecroy@uga.edu).

Special Requirements

Voice. The audition program must include:

• repertoire in English, French, German, and Italian;
• an aria (opera or oratorio) which demands advanced technical expertise;
• repertoire drawn from a minimum of three historical periods.

Organ. The audition program must include:

• * a major work of J. S. Bach selected from the Peters Edition Vol. II, or a trio sonata, or one of the toccatas;
• a composition from the romantic period;
• a twentieth-century composition.

Piano. The audition program must be performed from memory and include works or movements of works from each of four historical periods:

• Baroque/Classical (Bach through Beethoven);
• Romantic;
• Impressionistic;
• Twentieth-century (not in impressionistic or late romantic style).

One of the choices must be a first movement in sonata form from a sonata by Haydn, Mozart, Clementi, Beethoven, Schubert, Chopin, Schumann, or Brahms. If the first movement of a sonata by Beethoven (Op. 53 or later), Schubert, Chopin, Schumann, or Brahms is chosen, then a work or groups of works by J.S. Bach, Scarlatti, Soler, Haydn, Mozart, Clementi, or Beethoven (prior to Op. 53) must be included.

The audition will also include sightreading.

Strings. The audition program must include:

• at least one movement of a major concerto;
• two contrasting movements from the unaccompanied Bach suites or sonatas, or comparable repertoire.

Woodwinds. In addition to the audition program, the applicant should prepare two orchestral excerpts: one from the nineteenth century; one from the twentieth century. Saxophone applicants should prepare two twentieth-century excerpts.

Multiple Woodwind Instruments. Applicants auditioning for a major or minor in multiple woodwind instruments should prepare a substantive work and an orchestral excerpt for the three instruments on which they are most proficient.

Brass. In addition to the solo recital-audition program, the applicant should prepare four orchestral excerpts of contrasting style.

Percussion. The recital-audition must include:

• a multiple percussion solo;
• a major work for timpani;
• a major work for marimba;
• a transcription of a pre-twentieth-century composition.