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 prescreening video must include two songs, one in English and one in a foreign language. Each song/aria should be uploaded as a single file (two video files should be uploaded in total).
- 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 located at the bottom of this page.
- Sample composers are provided below, but students are welcome to choose outside of that list. Selections should be accompanied when appropriate.
Audition Repertoire
An accompanist will be provided at your live audition. If you intend to bring your own accompanist, please notify us at musicadmissions@depaul.edu.
Important: Applicants must bring sheet music for the accompanist printed in a three-ring binder.
- Three selections: One song in English and two in foreign languages. Two of the songs may be songs already presented in prescreens. If auditioning via recording, we encourage you to submit new recordings.
- Sight-singing and aural skills will be assessed during the audition.
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