DATES AND AUDITION OPTIONS
2025 Rochester On Campus Audition Dates:
Undergraduates: Fridays, February 14 and 28
Graduates: Saturday, February 22
2025 Remote Audition Option: Applicants who would like to audition virtually should upload their pre-screening requirements within their application by December 1st. Finalists will be invited to upload their final audition requirements within their application by February 1st. Applicants auditioning remotely should record their audition in 2 parts: 1 – All solo works (including snare drum etudes) in a single take with no edits. 2 – All excerpts in a single take with no edits. Finalists will also be scheduled for a virtual non-performance meeting with the Professor of Percussion over Zoom in February 2025.
PRE-SCREENING AND AUDITION REQUIREMENTS
Undergraduate
BM Pre-screening Requirements: Before December 1, all undergraduate applicants must upload a preliminary audition video recording. Please submit individual tracks for each piece or etude on your video.
Snare Drum
- Delecluse – Etude #1 from 12 Etudes
- Rudimemtal Solo
- Long Roll-
Keyboard
- J. S. Bach – 2 mallet work (Single movement from Violin Sonatas and Partitas or Suites for Solo Cello)
- Contemporary 4 mallet work of your choice (a movement or 3 minute excerpt)
Timpani
- Timpani Etude -choose from the following: John Beck – Concepts for Timpani, Raynor Carroll – Exercises, Etudes and Solos for Timpani or Hochrainer – Etudes for Timpani book 1 or 2
BM Pre-screening Requirements: Before December 1, all undergraduate applicants must upload a preliminary audition video recording. Please submit individual tracks for each piece or etude on your video.
Snare Drum
- Delecluse – Etude #1 from 12 Etudes
- Rudimemtal Solo
- Long Roll-
Keyboard
- J. S. Bach – 2 mallet work (Single movement from Violin Sonatas and Partitas or Suites for Solo Cello)
- Contemporary 4 mallet work of your choice (a movement or 3 excerpt)
Timpani
- Timpani Etude -choose from the following: John Beck – Concepts for Timpani, Raynor Carroll – Exercises, Etudes and Solos for Timpani or Hochrainer – Etudes for Timpani book 1 or 2
BM Final Audition Requirements:
All complete works required.
Snare Drum
- Delecluse – Etude #1 from 12 Etudes
- Rudimemtal Solo (John Pratt or Charley Wilcoxon solo preferred)
- Orchestral Excerpt Optional
Keyboard
- J. S. Bach – 2 mallet work (Single movement from Violin Sonatas and Partitas or Suites for Solo Cello
- Contemporary 4 mallet work of your choice – (complete movements or works not to exceed 10 minutes) suggested repertoire – Abe – Dream of the Cherry Blossoms, Wind in the Bamboo Grove, Variations on Japanese Childrens Songs; Burritt – October Night, Preludes, Scirrcoco; Moore – Halley’s Comet, Sammut – Rotations, Spirals, Cameleon; Stout – Mexican Dances, Astral Dance, Etudes; Tanaka – Two Movements for Marimba; Miki – Time for Marimba, Alvina Tan – Dansons?, Trevino – Memento
Timpani
- Brioso – Raynor Carroll or Hochrainer – Etude #50 from Etuden für Timpani volume 2
- Orchestral Excerpt Optional
Graduate
Graduate pre-screening requirements: Before December 1, all applicants must upload a preliminary audition video recording. Please submit individual tracks for each piece or etude on your video.
Snare Drum
- Delecluse Etude #9 from 12 Etudes
- Rudimemtal Solo
- 2 contrasting orchestral Excerpts
- Long Roll-
Keyboard
- J. S. Bach 2 mallet work (Single movement from Violin Sonatas and Partitas or Suites for Solo Cello)
- Contemporary 4 mallet work of your choice (a movement(s) or 3 minute excerpt)
Timpani
- Delecluse – Etude 9
- 2 orchestral excerpts optional
Multiple Percussion
- Solo of your choice (3- 5 min excerpt)
Graduate Final Audition Requirements
Complete works required. There will be no substitutes for the Bach requirement.
Snare Drum
- Delecluse Etude of your choice
- Rudimemtal Solo
- 2 contrasting orchestral excerpts optional
Keyboard
- J. S. Bach 2 mallet work (Single movement from Violin Sonatas and Partitas or Suites for Solo Cello)
- Contemporary 4 mallet work of your choice (complete movements or works not to exceed 12 minutes) – suggested repertoire – Abe – Marimba d’Amore, Burritt – Caritas, Scirroco; Druckman – Reflections on the Nature of Water; Etezady – Boomslang; Klatzow – Dances of Earth and Fire; Maslanka – Variations on Lost Love; Sueyoshi – Mirage; Schwantner – Velocities; Stevens – Rhythmic Caprice: Sammut – Cameleon, Stout – Rumble Strips or Sendimental Structures; Thomas – Merlin; Viñao – Khan Variations or Burritt Variations, Mackey – See Ya Thursday, Mantovani – Moi, jeu, Lansky – Three Moves
- 2 contrasting orchestral excerpts on xylophone optional
Timpani
- Solo of your choice
- 3 contrasting orchestral excerpts optional
Multiple Percussion*
- *There will be no multi-percussion requirement for final audition round