We encourage all applicants to audition in person if possible. Audition registration will be available after prescreen results are sent. Register for a live audition by January 15.
Prescreen Repertoire - Due Dec. 1
A prescreen is required for all applicants who list voice as their primary instrument. Please review our Prescreen Information page carefully before submission.
Your pre-screening video must include two songs, classical in nature, one in English and one in a foreign language.
Applicants should use songs to demonstrate different vocal techniques such as vowels that are sustained and supported over longer note values, vocal agility in passages with quick-moving notes, consistency of tone though low, middle, and high portions of the singers range, etc.
Selections should be accompanied when appropriate.
Audition Repertoire
One selection each in Italian, German, French, and English and include at least one opera or oratorio aria and one twentieth-century selection (four selections total).
Suggested Composers
In addition to the vast repertoire of baroque, classical, romantic, and 20th/21st century music written by Bach, Handel, Mozart, and their contemporaries, students are encouraged to include selections from amongst the list of lesser known composers shown here and their contemporaries.
Above all, students are encouraged to perform the repertoire they sing best. This includes what they sing technically best, what they identify with the most, what represents them the most, and those pieces with which they feel they have the most to communicate.
J.S. Bach, Amy Beach, Johannes Brahms, Harry Burleigh, Antonio Caldara, Ernest Chausson, Saunder Choi, Claude Debussy, Gaetano Donizetti, Gabriel Faure, Reynaldo Hahn, George Frideric Handel, Fannie Mendelssohn, W.A. Mozart, Fernando Obradors, Florence Price, Henry Purcell, Maurice Ravel, Franz Schubert, Robert Schumann, Richard Strauss, Roger Quilter, Giuseppe Verdi, Ralph Vaughan Williams, Hugo Wolf