Graduate Voice Audition Repertoire

Bocelli Concert, 2/13/20, Infinite Energy Center, Atlanta

Pre-Screening

Submit your application to the School of Music and your pre-screening materials via Accept’d by December 1, 2024.

Please submit three (3) videos of recent performances, to be selected from the full audition repertoire requirements below.

Following a faculty review, select applicants will be invited to campus for a full live audition. The voice area chair will notify applicants of their admission status and schedule live auditions in early January 2025.

Live audition dates

Friday, January 24, 2025

Friday, January 31, 2025

Audition requirements

Master of Music in Voice

MM applicants must prepare six (6) memorized selections, to include:

• One aria from the Baroque or Classical era including a recitative
• One Romantic or 20th/21st-century aria
• Three art songs
• An additional (unrestricted) selection. Non-Western classical styles are welcome.

At least three languages, including English, must be represented. All repertoire should be sung in the original language. We encourage applicants to include music of underrepresented composers, as well as music composed in the past 25 years.

Doctor of Musical Arts in Voice

DMA applicants must prepare eight (8) memorized selections, to include:

• One aria from the Baroque or Classical era including a recitative
• One Romantic aria
• One 20th/21st-century aria
• Four art songs OR three art songs and an additional aria
• An additional (unrestricted) selection. Non-Western classical styles are welcome.

At least four languages, including English, must be represented. All repertoire should be sung in the original language. One aria should be from an oratorio. We encourage applicants to include music of underrepresented composers, as well as music composed in the past 25 years.

Applicants for the DMA should submit a writing sample that demonstrates the applicant's ability to write analytically and formally about music—including discussion of such issues as style, form, performance practice, and/or other musicological topics. A paper that was completed during the candidate's MM degree or within another academic program would suffice. The writing sample should be 5–10 pages in length.

Assistantships

All applicants are automatically considered for TAs. All voice types will be accepted, but tenors are particularly encouraged to apply.

Please contact Dr. Elizabeth Knight, Voice Area Chair, with questions.