Collaborative Piano Audition Requirements
Collaborative Piano applicants should prepare the repertoire listed below for the live audition. Secondary skills must be demonstrated through a test of sight-reading of vocal and instrumental repertoire.
Applicants may bring their own vocalist and instrumentalist or may request that NEC provide musicians. There is a fee of $25, payable with the application, if NEC musicians are requested. For DMA applicants who are not invited to a live audition after review of the prescreening recording, the $25 fee will be refunded.
Both an audition repertoire list and a complete repertoire list (instrumental and vocal) must be submitted with your application. Any changes to the audition requirements must be discussed with Irma Vallecillo, Co-Chair of Collaborative Piano, at least four weeks before the scheduled audition.
MM/GD applicants
Vocal:
1. Brahms Meine Liebe ist grün, high key
2. Debussy Il pleure dans mon coeur, high key
3. Schubert Frühlingstraum
4. Barber St. Ida's Vision
Instrumental:
5. Beethoven cello or violin sonata
Solo repertoire:
6. Selection of the applicant's choice (one movement may satisfy this requirement)
For all candidates: secondary skills must be demonstrated through a test of sight-reading of vocal and instrumental repertoire. Both an audition repertoire list and a complete repertoire list (instrumental and vocal) must be submitted with your application. Any changes to the audition requirements must be discussed with Irma Vallecillo, Co-Chair of Collaborative Piano, at least four weeks before the scheduled audition.
DMA applicants
Choose one selection from each of the following groups:
1. Beethoven cello or violin sonata
2. Brahms violin, cello, or clarinet (or viola) sonata OR
Brahms songs (prepare complete list)
Von ewiger Liebe, op. 43
Meine Liebe ist grün, op.63
Wie Melodien zieht es mir, op. 105
Ständchen, op. 106
3. Franck Violin Sonata OR
Debussy Ariettes oubliées (complete)
4. Shostakovich Sonata for Cello and Piano, op. 40 OR
Barber Hermit Songs (complete)
5. Mozart "Hai già vinta la causa" from Le Nozze di Figaro
Note: All vocal song repertoire must be performed in either original or printed "high" keys.