Graduate Harp Audition Requirements

Live audition or a video recording uploaded to the application portal. The audition must contain 15-20 minutes of selections from the following:

• Two solo works representing different historical periods and styles. Memorization is preferred but not required.
• One movement from a concerto, including a cadenza (Handel, Mozart, Ravel, etc.) Memorization is preferred, but not required.
• Two orchestra excerpts and two cadenzas from the lists below. Memorization is not required.
  • Choose two orchestra excerpts from the list below:
    • Bartok – Concerto for Orchestra, 4^th movement, 119 to 127 and 345 to 356
    • Berlioz – Symphonie Fantastique, 2^nd movement, opening through the downbeat of six measures before 25 and 32 to 33
    • Strauss – Don Juan, E to six measures before G and 3 after M to N
    • Strauss – Salome “Dance of the Seven Veils,” six after P to seven before S
    • Stravinsky – Symphony in Three Movements, 2^nd movement, two before 118 to 120 and 122 to one before 125
    • Verdi – La Forza del Destino, G to H and N to O
    • Wagner – Die Walküre, “Magic Fire Music,” Act III, scene 3 (all)
  • Choose two cadenzas from the list below:
    • Britten – Young Person’s Guide to the Orchestra, cadenza, all of Variation J, and Fugue from letter I until two measures after J
    • Ravel – Tzigane, 4 to two before 5
    • Rimsky-Korsakov – Capriccio Espagnol, cadenza and from S through 14 after S
    • Tchaikovsky – Nutcracker Waltz of the Flowers, opening arpeggios and cadenza

Live audition or a video recording uploaded to the application portal. The audition must contain a 30 to 45-minute program representing three of the following periods. Memorization is preferred, but not required.

• Baroque or Classical
• Romantic
• Contemporary

Live audition or a video recording uploaded to the application portal.

• For students holding a Bachelor's degree in performance, the requirements are the same as the Master of Music.
• For students holding a Master's degree in performance, the requirements are the same as the Doctor of Musical Arts.