Undergraduate Strings Audition Requirements

Prescreening

A 20-minute recording of at least two selections representing a preview of your live audition. Separate works may be recorded at different times, however editing is not permitted within selections and no artificial reverb should be added.

Audition - Performance Majors

1. An etude from any one of the following: Popper, Piatti, Duport, Grutzmacher, Schroeder
2. Two contrasting movements from the Six Suites for Cello of J.S. Bach.  One movement should be a Prelude. Performance majors should play from memory.
3. First movement of a cello concerto from the standard repertoire.  Repertoire suggestions:

• Dvorak, “Concerto in B Minor”
• Haydn, “Concerto in C or D Major”
• Schumann, “Concerto in A minor”
• Shostakovich
• Elgar 1st and 2nd movement together (or last movement)

Audition - All Other Majors

1. Any movement of a concerto
2. Any movement of a Bach Solo Suite
3. Any etude

Prescreening

A 20-minute recording of at least two selections representing a preview of your live audition. Separate works may be recorded at different times, however editing is not permitted within selections and no artificial reverb should be added.

Audition - All Applicants

The following repertoire is recommended but similar works may be substituted and approved by the faculty upon request one month prior to the audition. Applicants may contact Professor Powell at bpowell@miami.edu for repertoire substitutions.

1. One required solo (choose from the following): 
   • First movement of any standard concerto (Bottesini, Dittersdorf, Dragonetti, Koussevitsky)
   • One slow and one fast movement of a pre-approved Baroque Sonata (Marcello, Vivaldi, Bach, etc.)
   • Any Bach Cello Suite movement and edition of your choice
2. Two required orchestral excerpts:
   • Beethoven, “Symphony No. 5 Scherzo and Trio”
   • Choose 1 (one) of the following excerpts:
     • Wagner, “Prelude to Die Meistersingers”
     • Mozart, “Symphony No 40 Mvt 1”: twenty measures before letter C to five measures after letter C (Zimmerman ed.)
     • Beethoven, “Symphony No. 9 Mvt. IV”: Recitative followed by 16 of the Ode to Joy (the second “Allegro assai”)

Prescreening

A 20-minute recording of at least two selections representing a preview of your live audition. Separate works may be recorded at different times, however editing is not permitted within selections and no artificial reverb should be added.

Audition - Performance Majors

The following repertoire is recommended but similar works may be substituted and approved by the faculty upon request one month prior to the audition. Applicants may contact Professor Levitz at jlevitz@miami.edu for repertoire substitutions.

1. A Prelude and dance movement from a Bach Cello Suite, or two contrasting movements from a Bach Solo Violin Sonata or Partita
2. A movement from a classical or major concerto
3. An original work for viola of the candidate’s choice

Audition - All Other Majors

1. A Prelude and dance movement from a Bach Cello Suite, or two contrasting movements from a Bach Solo Violin Sonata or Partita
2. A movement from a classical or major concerto, or an original work for viola of the candidate’s choice

Prescreening

A 20-minute recording of at least two selections representing a preview of your live audition. Separate works may be recorded at different times, however editing is not permitted within selections and no artificial reverb should be added.

Audition - All Applicants

The following repertoire is recommended but similar works may be substituted if approved by the faculty upon request one month prior to the audition. Applicants may contact Professor Levitz at jlevitz@miami.edu for repertoire substitutions.

1. 1st movement of a major Concerto, or a third movement, upon approval by faculty
2. Two contrasting movements from a Bach Sonata or Partita
3. An additional work of the applicant's choice