Audition & Program Requirements
Master of Music: Cello
Fall 2022 audition format update: Auditions will be entirely virtual. Cello applicants will audition live on Zoom. Posted 1/12/22
Prescreening required; must be video recording. Prescreening may or may not include accompaniment, at the discretion of the applicant.
Audition unaccompanied.
For Prescreening:
- One étude by Popper or one caprice by Piatti
- One movement from a Bach Suite
- The exposition from a standard cello concerto
For Final Audition:
- One étude by Popper and one caprice by Piatti OR two by either
- Two contrasting movements from a Bach Suite
- One complete cello concerto by a composer such as Haydn, Schumann, Tchaikovsky, Elgar, Shostakovich, or Prokofiev
- One piece composed after 1940