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Keyboard: Piano

DMA Audition Materials and Requirements: Keyboard Piano

Piano Pedagogy

• Auditions: On-campus auditions during the semester preceding entrance to the DMA program are strongly recommended.  Memorization is required except for compositions involving advanced contemporary techniques. All auditions consist of a solo recital program of 60 to 90 minutes in length, representing a variety of styles and including works from the pre-classical, classical/romantic and contemporary periods.
• Teaching Audition: In addition to the performance audition above, a videotaped teaching audition is required.  The video tape should include two complete lessons (in English) with different level students, and at least 30 minutes of student performance of memorized pieces of a variety of style periods and levels of difficulty.  All students included on video tape must have studied with the candidate for a minimum of two years.
• Taped Auditions: Acceptance through taped audition can be provisional only and must be followed by a successful full-length live audition prior to the second week of classes for the first semester of study. Memorization is required except for compositions involving advanced contemporary techniques. 
• Assistantships: If you are applying for graduate assistantships in class piano or piano preparatory teaching, you are required to submit a video tape of your piano teaching (in English).  This should include two complete lessons, preferably of students of different levels.  Individual and/or group lessons at any level are acceptable for the video tape.  You may use the video tape described above for assistantship consideration.  Send video tapes to the School of Music Graduate office on or before Feb. 15.  It is also advised that the three required letters of recommendation address the applicant’s teaching ability and probability of success as a teaching assistant.

Performance, Piano

• Auditions: On-campus auditions during the semester preceding entrance to the DMA program are strongly recommended.  Memorization is required except for compositions involving advanced contemporary techniques. All auditions consist of a solo recital program of 60 to 90 minutes in length, representing a variety of styles and including works from the pre-classical, classical/romantic and contemporary periods.
• Taped Auditions: Acceptance through taped audition can be provisional only and must be followed by a successful full-length live audition prior to the second week of classes for the first semester of study. Memorization is required except for compositions involving advanced contemporary techniques. 
• Assistantships: If you are applying for a graduate assistantship in class piano or piano preparatory teaching, you are required to submit a video tape of your piano teaching (in English).  This should include two complete lessons, preferably of students of different levels.  Individual and/or group lessons at any level are acceptable for the video tape.  You may use the video tape described above for assistantship consideration.  Send video tapes to the School of Music Graduate office on or before Feb. 15.  It is also advised that the three required letters of recommendation address the applicant’s teaching ability and probability of success as a teaching assistant.

Collaborative Piano

Prerequisites

• A Master's degree in piano performance or in collaborative piano, piano accompanying/chamber music, or its equivalent.
• Sufficient vocal and instrumental repertoire to suggest that the applicant will be able to fulfill the degree requirements.

Audition Requirements
An on-campus audition during the year preceding entrance to the DMA program is strongly recommended. Acceptance through taped audition is provisional only and must be followed by a successful, full-length audition during the first month of private instruction. Students who are applying for keyboard area graduate assistantships should schedule an on-campus audition prior to February 15. ASU will provide singers and instrumentalists for your audition and a 30-minute rehearsal with each. You may bring your own collaborative partners, but if you wish to use ASU musicians, please email your audition repertoire choices to Dr. Andrew Campbell well in advance of your audition date. Repertoire substitutions are allowed only if you are bringing your own partners and must be approved in advance.

Audition Contents

• All of the following pieces (high key):
  • Mozart, An Chloë
  • Schubert, Gretchen am Spinnrade
  • Debussy, Il pleure dans mon coeur
  • Strauss, Allerseelen
  • Barber, The Monk and His Cat
• Both of the following arias:
  • Mi chiamano Mimi, La Bohème, Puccini
  • Hai già vinta la causa, Le Nozze di Fiagro, Mozart
• One of the following duo sonatas:
  • Beethoven, Violin Sonata in F major, Op. 24
  • Brahms, Sonata in f minor or E-flat major, Op. 120, #1 or #2
  • Franck, Sonata in A major
  • Prokofieff, Sonata Op. 94
• Tests in Sight Reading and Languages.
  The language portion will test the applicant’s ability to pronounce materials in French, German and Italian and, if possible, an elementary ability to translate one of the above languages into English
• The applicant will provide a detailed CV and a list of vocal and instrumental repertoire studied and/or performed prior to the audition.

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