Jazz Voice

​Jazz Voice requires a pre-screen. Repertoire will be updated shortly. 

Audition Requirements

 Applicants have a choice between two audition formats: in person auditions or recorded submissions. Though recorded auditions are accepted, we strongly encourage applicants to audition on campus to benefit from the in-person experience of meeting our faculty and seeing our facilities.​

Candidates should submit the following:

- A Ballad 

- An up-tempo swing or even eighth selection 

- A Bebop head with scat and/or vocalese 

- A Bossa Nova or contemporary style performance

- Applicant must also, while singing, be able to play the chord changes with a swing feel on the piano to one of the following selections: Take The A Train, By Bye Blackbird, The More I See You, or I Thought About You. 

- All graduate applicants will be required to submit a jazz repertoire list of known material and present one’s personally compiled book used for group performances. 

 - Applicant must sing and demonstrate technical proficiency of registration and range by singing a major and chromatic scale, 2 octaves (key of choice). 

-  Applicant must sight read 16 bars of a standard, chosen by adjudicator. 

All selections, with the exception of the final requirement above, should be standard compositions commonly associated with jazz performance.