Please note the following for your recordings:
- First you must apply to DePaul School of Music by the extended deadline of January 5. After you submit your online application, you may upload your pre-screening video under the "Portfolio Submission" section at the following website: DePaul Pre-Audition Recording Upload.
- 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. Specific requirements and suggested repertoire is below.
- Each piece should be recorded as a video in a single take and uploaded as an individual track. Recordings of individual tracks edited together from multiple takes are not appropriate. Sample songs are provided below, although students are welcome to choose songs that are not on the list. Selections should be accompanied when appropriate.
- Pre-screen recordings are due by the extended deadline of January 5. If your pre-screen is favorablty reviewed, you will then be invited to schedule a live audition.
Pre-Screening Requirements - due by the extended deadline of January 5.
Your pre-audition screening video must include two songs, one in English and one in a foreign language.
Audition Requirements
We encourage all applicants, if at all possible, to audition in-person.
- Live audition dates are scheduled during the weekends in February. Review list of audition dates by instrument here.
- Recorded video auditions are available by request and must be submitted by February 1 to your Blue Demon Domain (for undergraduates) or your application portal (for graduates/post-masters), in the “edit portfolio" section. To enable the recorded audition submission, you may submit a request form for an exemption to upload a recorded audition.
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three selections: one song in English and the other two in different languages other than English. Two of the songs may be the songs already presented on the pre-audition recording. You may reuse recordings from the pre-screen submissions, but we encourage to to submit new recordings, even if the song remains the same.
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In addition to your recordings outlined above, applicants who pass the pre-screen are required to submit a video of themselves answering these questions: 1. Why have you chosen your intended major? 2. What draws you to the DePaul University School of Music? 3. What are your ultimate career goals?
Sample Listing of Songs (faculty recommended):
The Glory of the Day Was in Her Face by Florence Price
Ride On, King Jesus by Harry Burleigh
Ah, Love, but a day! by Amy Beach
I Attempt from Loves Sickness to Fly by Henry Purcell
Bright Is the Ring of Words by Ralph Vaughan Williams
There’ll Always Be That Someone Else by Saunder Choi
Del Cabello Más Sutil by Fernando Obradors
Sebben Crudele by Antonio Caldara
Se Tu M’ami by Giovanni Pergolesi
Die Mainacht by Johannes Brahms
Sehnsucht by Fannie Mendelssohn
Del Cabello Más Sutil by Fernando Obradors
Beau Soir by Claude Debussy
Lydia by Gabriel Faure