MUSIC SCHOLARSHIP AUDITIONS & MUSIC DEPARTMENT ADMISSION
The Music Department requires an try-out for all students who instruct to aspire to the song vital during Southwestern. A impending student’s try-out serves both as an acknowledgment as good as the grant audition. Students who have been not certified in to the vital module upon the basement of the try-out have been acquire to knowledge in all activities of the Music Department for which they qualify; if they still instruct to aspire to the vital they might re-audition for the Department after they proceed their studies during Southwestern. Please additionally note which acknowledgment in to the vital module does not pledge the song scholarship.
AUDITION DATES 2008-2009
• Sunday, Nov 9, 2008
• Sunday, Feb 8, 2009
• Saturday as good as Sunday, Mar 7 & 8, 2009
Please call The Sarofim School of Fine Arts (512) 863-1504 or email Allison Fannin, Secretary, to embrace the grant focus as good as prepare an try-out fannina@southwestern.edu
MUSIC SCHOLARSHIP (for students majoring in music)
• Awards operation from $3500-$12,000 per year
• Private doctrine price waiver
• Renewable annually up to 4 years
Audition Requirements:
• Woodwinds, Brass as good as Strings – Two selections representing opposite stylistic durations (Baroque, Classical, Romantic, Twentieth-century). One preference usually might be an etude; the module of dual etudes is NOT acceptable. Memorization of during slightest the single of the selections is encouraged, nonetheless not required. Solos which have been created with piano outcome contingency be achieved with live outcome during the audition–an accompanist will be provided. If the tyro wishes to make use of an SU accompanist, song for accompaniments contingency be perceived no after than the week prior to the scheduled try-out date.
• Percussion – Three selections which prominence timpani, mallets, as good as trap drum. i.e., the single piece for the single person or etude upon any instrument (2 or 4 mallets for set of keys percussion).
Students should be rebuilt to denote believe of tuning timpani. The Music Department can yield the trap drum, timpani as good as marimba for auditions; any special apparatus needs contingency be communicated to the Fine Arts Secretary good in allege of the try-out date.
• Piano – dual finish functions representing opposite stylistic durations (Baroque, Classical, Romantic, Twentieth-century). Memorization is required.
• Voice – the module of art songs and/or operatic arias totaling 3 selections. At slightest one, as good as preferably two, of the functions achieved contingency be in the single or some-more of the customary unfamiliar languages: Italian, French, or German. Memorization is required.
PERFORMANCE AWARD (for students not majoring in music, behaving in ensembles)
• Awards up to $2,500 per year
• Private doctrine price waiver
• Renewable annually up to 4 years
Audition requirements:
• Woodwinds, Brass & Strings – Two selections, any representing opposite stylistic periods
• Percussion – Ten mins from repertoire which highlights dual of the following:
timpani, mallets, trap drum
• Voice – Two art songs by memory
Non-major opening awards will not be accessible in the following area for 2009-2010: Harp
Students wishing the non-major Performance Award for 2009-2010 in these areas will be evaluated by recording ONLY:
• Soprano voice
• Piano (only for students with well-developed capability as good as knowledge in jazz invention or accompanying)
• Guitar (only for students with well-developed capability as good as knowledge in jazz improvisation)
Students who send recordings should ask an try-out form previously as good as hang it with the recording, saying obviously for what sort of endowment they have been applying. Recordings sent but enough identifying report will not be evaluated.
Non-major students might try-out for the Performance Award in ONLY ONE opening area. Only the single endowment will be done to any student, of an suitable volume formed upon major/non-major status. Students cannot embrace dual song scholarships in opposite behaving areas, or the song vital grant as good as the non-major opening award.
Complete compositions, etudes, or movements of sonatas or concertos contingency be prepared–fragments of functions have been not acceptable.
Performance with piano accompaniment, if the combination calls for it, is compulsory for impending song majors anticipating the song scholarship. For non-majors who have been requesting for the P.A., outcome is optional, nonetheless recommended. Any try-out which does not encounter all of the criteria for the song grant try-out listed upon the web site (i.e., series of pieces, opening with accompaniment, etc.) will be deliberate the non-major P.A. try-out as good as awards will be done thus (i.e., the limit probable endowment will be $2500 per year).
A live try-out cannot be upon trial if the tyro cannot crop up upon the single of the scheduled try-out days. Requests done after Feb 10, 2009 for live auditions upon the last week end in Mar 2009 will be filled upon the first-come, first-served basis. Any tyro who cannot report the live try-out is suggested to send the CD recording or cassette fasten of their try-out module as shortly as he or she is able. NO particular live auditions will be listened after the last scheduled central try-out date. Recordings perceived after the last try-out date will be listened to as good as evaluated as good as awards done formed upon accessible funds. Students have been suggested to audition, or send the recording, as early as probable in the open division for full consideration.
STUDENTS WHO SUBMIT REQUESTS FOR AUDITION TIMES IN FEBRUARY OR MARCH 2009 WILL NOT BE SCHEDULED WITHOUT HAVING SUBMITTED A FORMAL APPLICATION TO SOUTHWESTERN UNIVERSITY.
Eligibility requirements:
Candidates contingency request for ubiquitous acknowledgment to Southwestern University separately, as good as contingency have an active focus to Southwestern University in sequence to report an audition. However, they need not have been supposed yet, in sequence to audition. Please note that, nonetheless recommendations will be done following the student’s audition, acknowledgment to Southwestern contingency be postulated in sequence to embrace the award. An particular student’s acknowledgment standing might not be dynamic until after the last try-out deadline in March.
Recipients of Department of Music scholarships as good as Performance Awards might additionally be authorised for one some-more benefit such as educational scholarships. In addition, recipients might request for University need-based aid. For some-more information, greatfully click: FINANCIAL AID & MERIT SCHOLARSHIPS or call 1-800-252-3166.
Any monetary assist suggest from Southwestern University will be blank as of May 1, 2009 if the tyro accepts monetary assist from an additional college or university.
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