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Guitar Audition Requirements

All works should be performed from memory.

For studio placement with Robert Sullivan, prepare one work from each of the following periods:

  1. Baroque or Renaissance
  2. Classical or Romantic (e.g., Sor, Giuliani, Mertz, Coste, Regondi)
  3. 20th century

For studio placement with Eliot Fisk, prepare the following repertorie:

  1. One (1) Bach Fugue or Prelude from BWV 995, 996, or 1006
  2. First movement from an important 20th-century sonata in sonata form (e.g., Ponce, Turina, Castelnuovo-Tedesco, Berkeley, Henze, Tippett, Brouwer)
  3. One (1) tremolo by Barrios
    One (1) study by Villa-Lobos (numbers 2, 7, 10, or 12), or any Two (2) Etudes by Leo Brouwer chosen from The Estudios Sencillos. Comparable repertoire may be substituted after consultation with Eliot Fisk (contact via the NEC website).

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