Audition Guideline

If you plan on coming to our official audition day, you must register online here:

http://www.uiowa.edu/~music/prospective/auditionsform.htm

Undergraduate (B.M./B.A.)

Auditionees are expected to have had private instruction but it is not a prerequisite.

- All major and minor scales (as many versions as possible) at a minimum tempo of quarter note = 80 x 4 (sixteenth notes)

- Chromatic scale

- Two contrasting solo pieces (one lyrical and one technical) with or without piano. When pieces with piano are chosen, please bring an accompanist if possible. You may choose compositions from this list, or choose works that are of similar difficulty. It is important to choose works that showcase your strengths as a musician.

Sample repertoire:

ALTO/BARITONE Aria — Eugene Bozza Concertino— Eugene Bozza Sonata — Paul Creston Concerto — Alexandre Glazunov Concerto — Jascha Gurewich Sonata — Bernhard Heiden Concertino da camera— Jacques Ibert Sonata — Lawson Lunde Tableaux de Provence — Paule Maurice Ballade — Alfred Reed

TENOR Prelude et Divertissement — Robert Clerrise Fantasia — Hector Villa-Lobos Contest Caprice — Leroy Ostransky Solo for Tenor Saxophone Player — Larry Teal

Graduate (M.A./M.F.A./D.M.A.)

- All major and minor scales (extended to altissimo range if possible) at a minimum tempo of quarter note = 120 x 4 (sixteenth notes)

- Chromatic scale, diminished scales, and whole-tone scales

- Two contrasting solo pieces (one lyrical and one technical) with or without piano.  When pieces with piano are chosen, please bring an accompanist if possible. You may choose compositions from this list, or choose works that are of similar difficulty. It is important to choose works that showcase your strengths as a musician.

Sample repertoire:

SOPRANO Sequenza VIIb — Luciano Berio Sonata— Jindrich Feld Fantasia — Hector Villa-Lobos ALTO Aeolian Song (from Concertino) — Warren Benson Sequenza IXb — Luciano Berio Concerto— Paul Creston Concerto — Ingolf Dahl Prelude, cadence et finale — Alfred Desenclos Sonata— Jindrich Feld Suite Rhapsodica — Jindrich Feld Brillance — Ida Gotkovsky Variations Pathetiques — Ida Gotkovsky Elegie et Rondeau— Karel Husa Concerto — Lars-Erik Larsson Ballade — Frank Martin Sonata — Robert Muczynski Concerto — Robert Muczynski Cadenza — Lucie Robert Sonata — John C. Worley

TENOR Trigon, Op. 31 — Michael Cunningham Sonata — James Dipasquale Concertino — Walter Harley Ballade — Frank Martin September Sonata — John C. Worley BARITONE Six Suites for Cello — J. S. Bach Sonata — Michael Cunningham Sonata — Walter Hartley Sonatina — John C. Worley