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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

Fall 2025 Auditions

  • Friday, November 7, 2025

    • Strings: 3-4pm, Keene Hall room 119 
    • Voice: 4-5pm, Keene Hall room 119 
    • Brass & Woodwinds: 5-6pm, Keene Hall room 119 

  • Saturday, November 8, 2025

    • Guitar/Bass Guitar: 10-11am, Keene Hall room 102
    • Percussion: 11am-12pm, Keene Hall room 102

  • Friday, November 14, 2025

    • Piano: 3:15 - 4:30pm, Tiedtke Concert Hall

Rollins students on piano and on a violin working with professor John Sinclair

Scholarship Auditions

To secure an audition date/time, review the requirements below, then fill out the audition form.

Audition Form

Spring 2026 Auditions

  • Friday, January 23, 2026

    • Piano: 2-3pm, Tiedtke Concert Hall
    • Voice: 3-4pm, Tiedtke Concert Hall
    • Strings: 4-5pm, Tiedtke Concert Hall
    • Brass & Woodwinds: 5-6pm, Tiedtke Concert Hall

  • Saturday, January 24, 2026

    • Guitar/Bass Guitar: 10-11am, Keene Hall room 102
    • Percussion: 11am-12pm, Keene Hall room 102

  • Friday, February 20, 2026

    • Voice: 2-4pm, Tiedtke Concert Hall
    • Strings: 4-5pm, Tiedtke Concert Hall
    • Brass & Woodwinds: 5-6pm, Tiedtke Concert Hall

  • Saturday, February 21, 2026

    • Guitar/Bass Guitar: 10-11am, Keene Hall room 102
    • Percussion: 11am-12pm, Keene Hall room 102

  • Friday, February 27, 2026

    • Piano: 3:15 - 4:30pm, Tiedtke Concert Hall

  • Friday, March 6, 2026

    • Piano: 3-4pm, Tiedtke Concert Hall

  • Friday, March 13, 2026

    • Voice: 2-4pm, Tiedtke Concert Hall
    • Strings: 4-5:20pm, Tiedtke Concert Hall
    • Brass & Woodwinds: 5:30-6:50pm, Tiedtke Concert Hall

  • Saturday, March 14, 2026

    • Guitar/Bass Guitar: 10-11am, Keene Hall room 102
    • Percussion: 11am-12pm, Keene Hall room 102

Audition 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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