String Auditions
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Welcome, strings students!
Below, you'll find the audition requirements for the strings area. For full audition and application information, please visit the Audition & Applications page.
Application now open for Fall and Spring 2025!
Below, you'll find the audition requirements for the strings area. For full audition and application information, please visit the Audition & Applications page.
For violin, viola, and cello applicants only. Double bass and harp should see final auditions below.
Review the requirements for your area of study below. If you have questions about your repertoire selections within these requirements, please first consult with your current private teacher or other mentor. Instrumental final auditions will be performed unaccompanied.
Repertoire must be performed from memory.
Prescreening - All Programs
Repertoire does not need to be memorized.
Prescreening - All Programs
Repertoire does not need to be memorized.
Prescreening - All Programs
Review the requirements for your area of study below. If you have questions about your repertoire selections within these requirements, please first consult with your current private teacher or other mentor.
Instrumental final auditions will be performed unaccompanied and a piano will not be provided for auditions.
Repertoire must be performed from memory.
Undergraduate
Graduate and Postgraduate
PSC Concertmaster Track Only
Repertoire does not need to be memorized.
Final Audition - Undergraduate
Final Audition - Graduate and Postgraduate
Repertoire does not need to be memorized.
Final Audition - Undergraduate
Final Audition - Graduate and Postgraduate
Either the concerto or the sonata listed below should be from the 20th or 21st century.
Repertoire does not need to be memorized.
Undergraduate
We encourage applicants to select at least one work by a woman and/or person from a historically underrepresented racial/ethnic group to fulfill at least one of the requirements below.
Graduate and Postgraduate
We encourage applicants to select at least one work by a woman and/or person from a historically underrepresented racial/ethnic group to fulfill at least one of the requirements listed below.
Repertoire does not need to be memorized.
Undergraduate
Graduate and Postgraduate
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