Violin Audition Requirements 

The use of an accompanist is optional, but recommended.  It is preferred, but not required, that candidates memorize all selections (with the exception of the sonata movement, where applicable).

Undergraduate - Performance Major

1. A movement of a Bach Solo Sonata/Partita
2. A first movement of a standard concerto by Haydn, Mozart, Bruch, or a work of similar difficulty.

Undergraduate - Music Education Major or Violin Minor

Prepare two contrasting works demonstrating your technical and lyrical proficiency

Graduate and Artist Diploma

1. Two contrasting movements of a Bach Solo Sonata/Partita
2. A first movement of a major concerto such as Brahms, Dvorak, Bartok, Mendelssohn, Tchaikovsky, Sibelius, or a work of similar difficulty.
3. A movement from a sonata with piano.
4. A virtuosic work

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Viola Audition Requirements

The use of an accompanist is optional, but recommended.  It is preferred, but not required, that candidates memorize all selections (with the exception of the sonata movement, where applicable).

Undergraduate - Performance Major

1. Two contrasting movements from a Bach Cello Suite
2. A movement of a concerto by Hoffmeister, Stamitz, J.C. Bach, Handel-Casedesus, or a work of similar difficulty.

Undergraduate - Music Education Major or Viola Minor

Prepare two contrasting works demonstrating your technical and lyrical proficiency

Graduate and Artist Diploma

1. Two contrasting movements from a Cello Suite or Violin Sonata/Partita by Bach.
2. The first movement of a concerto by Bartok, Walton, Hindemith, Schnittke, Penderecki, or a work of similar difficulty
3. The first movement of a sonata by Schubert, Brahms, Clark, Hindemith, or a work of similar difficulty.