What should I play for my Audition? BACK
What should I play for my Audition? BACK
For Shenandoah Conservatory Undergraduate Auditionees:
Two contrasting etudes (from Weissenborn, Milde, Ferling, etc.) and one solo work of appropriate difficulty (a single movement is acceptable). Major scales required; major as well as harmonic minor preferred. Sightreading will also be required. No piano accompaniment is necessary for undergraduate auditions.
Some Appropriate Solos:
Bourdeau: Premier Solo
Cioffari: Sonatina
Elgar: Romance
Fasch: Sonata
Devienne: The Concerto (some old publications attribute it to Mozart) or one of the six Sonatas
Galliard: One of the six Sonatas
Grovlez: Sicilienne et Allegro Giocoso
Hindemith: Sonata
Jacob: Concerto
Mozart: Concerto, K.191
Phillips: Concertpiece
Saint-Saëns: Sonate
Senaille: Allegro Spiritoso
Telemann: Sonata in F-minor
Vivaldi: Any of the many Concerti
Weber: Concerto
No matter what you play, make sure you can play it well. There is no sense in choosing a piece that is too difficult. Ask yourself if you can truly play all the right notes at all the right times? Can you play the piece at an appropriate tempo? Can you play it in tune? A well-played easier piece is worth a lot more than a sloppily played piece of greater difficulty. The people hearing you want you to succeed and we prefer to hear you at your very best.