Audition Requirements for Composition

For students interested in becoming a composition major, the composition audition consists of a meeting with a composition faculty member to discuss your musical works and to take a musicianship exam. For this meeting, bring some of your compositions (2-3 of your best works) along with you and any recordings if you have them. In addition, you must audition on your principal instrument (which might be voice) and take the piano placement exam (if not auditioning on piano). We also encourage composition students to audition on their secondary instruments (if you have one) as well. Be sure to read the requirements for the audition process for those instruments. If you are accepted into the composition program, but not on your principal or secondary instrument, you may take five semesters of piano lessons to fulfill the applied instrument requirement.