Audition Requirements
Audition Process
The audition consists of a performance by the prospective student on his or her respective instrument, as well as a brief aural skill/sight-reading exam. Please fill out the Music Major or Minor Audition Request Form or email music@rollins.edu to arrange an audition.
Note: For prospective students applying to the Hamilton Holt School, the audition is required for both admission and into the Rollins Department of Music as well as scholarship consideration. For prospective students applying to the College of Liberal Arts, auditions are required for scholarship consideration, but not required for admission into the department.
Music Major or Minor Audition Request Form Music Major or Minor Audition Request Form
Scholarship Audition Dates
November 8th and 9th, 2024
January 24th and 25th, 2025
February 14th and 15th, 2025
February 28th and March 1st, 2025
To secure an audition date/time, review the requirements below, then fill out the audition form.
Audition FormAudition Requirements
Piano
1. All major and harmonic minor scales, hands together, two octaves in parallel motion.
2. Arpeggios in major and minor keys, hands together, two octaves in parallel motion.
3. Memorized program of two or more contrasting style periods.
Percussion
1. Prepare one solo snare drum piece.
2. One solo mallet work.
3. Optionally a solo timpani piece.
Strings (violin, viola, cello, double bass)
Two contrasting pieces that total about 10 minutes in length.
Guitar (acoustic or classical)
One or two selections that best highlights your technical and musical accomplishments.
Vocal
1. One memorized art song or aria in English and one memorized art song or aria in a foreign language.
2. Sight-sing exercises.
3. Aural exercises.
Woodwind (bassoon, clarinet, flute, oboe, saxophone)
1. Two pieces of contrasting styles/time periods, which best display your technical and musical accomplishments totaling approximately 10 minutes. One selection should focus on your tone production and lyrical playing, while the second should demonstrate technical ability. One of these pieces can be an etude from the standard repertoire (Rose, Ferling, Milde, Andersen, Kohler, etc.) if desired.
2. All Major Scales and Arpeggios
Brass (horn, trombone, trumpet, tuba, euphonium)
Two selections from classical, etudes, or contest type repertoire.
Trumpet
1. Major and minor scales
2. Any etude from Arban
Tuba
1. 12 Major Scales
2. Any etude from Rochut OR Bordogni.
3. Any prepared All State material.
Jazz/Contemporary
Brass/Woodwinds
1. Improvise on a 12 bar blues progression in F Major and Bb Major. (Concert keys)
2. Improvise over a ii-V-I vamp in various styles. (Key areas to be announced at the audition.)
3. Play from memory, the melody to one standard Jazz composition. You must also know the chord progression to the composition you have chosen.
4. Play from memory, the melody to one standard Pop composition. You must also know the chord progression to the composition you have chosen.
Electric Guitar/Bass
1. Improvise on a 12 bar blues progression in F Major and Bb Major. (Concert keys)
2. Improvise over a ii-V-I vamp in various styles. (Key areas to be announced at the audition.)
3. Play from memory, the melody to one standard Jazz composition. You must also know the chord progression to the composition you have chosen.
4. Play from memory, the melody to one standard Pop composition. You must also know the chord progression to the composition you have chosen.
5. Comp on these four styles: Swing, Samba, Funk and Son-Montuno, using the following chord progression in F Major: I-vi-ii-V.
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