Applicants should submit their application with their preliminary screening DVD.  The application and recording must be postmarked no later than December 1, 2009.  The recording must be in English and should contain the following:

1. Twenty to thirty minutes of conducting/rehearsing a choir that the candidate regularly conducts, or an ad hoc group formed for the taping.  (Previously recorded accompaniment is not accepted).
2. Position the camera to show a head-on view of view of the upper torso.
3. The music should show contrasting tempi and demonstrate legato and marcato.

Before mailing the screening DVD the applicant must:

1. Label the recording and box with name, date submitted, and “M.M. in Choral Conducting.”
2. List titles of works rehearsed on the container box.

The faculty will review the DVDs and invite selected candidates to audition on campus.

On-campus auditions will consist of three parts

1. Interview - students should be prepared to:
   
   • Sing an art song or aria
   • Play a short piece on the piano (such as a Bach Invention)
   • Discuss their preparation of the assigned score
2. Exams - student will be tested in Aural Skills and Sight Singing
3. Conducting Audition

Applicants should submit a portfolio of original works to include:

1. Three recent works which best demonstrate present abilities.  One of which should be of moderate to large scale (e.g., movement of string quartet, choral work of at least 5 minutes)
2. Submit a list of all composition (this should include medium, date of composition, performance/reading of the piece).
3. The composition faculty will supply each applicant with a motive to be used in composing a tonal, two-part invention.  Please return this invention as part of your composition portfolio.

All students must complete an interview with a composition faculty member.

Applicants should possess an undergraduate degree in music education or a valid teacher certificate and must complete the following:

1. Audition in applied area of study (organ, piano, voice, or composition - see Primary Instrument Audition Requirements. 
   Students applying for a concentration in Choral Conducting must follow the requirements for a Choral Conducting applicant as explained above).
2. An interview with a member of the music education faculty.
3. Although not required, the department would be pleased to review a DVD or videotape of the candidate teaching.

Organ Performance

All of the following, of which one must be from memory:

1. A major work by J.S. Bach
2. Two contrasting works from the 19th, 20th., or 21st centuries.

Recorded auditions must be submitted in DVD or video format and must show pedals.

1. R. Strauss: Ständchen (high key).
2. Barber: The Daisies (high key).
3. Fauré: Clair de lune (high key).
4. Debussy: Green (in G-flat).
5. A Schubert song, of the applicant’s choice.  (The applicant will play the accompaniment while singing or speaking the vocal line).
6. A complete Beethoven sonata (excluding op. 27, no. 2; op. 49; and op. 79) or a comparable work from the solo piano literature, played from memory.
7. Applicants will be asked to sight-read works from the standard vocal literature as well as to sight-read in German and French.

A member of the voice faculty will perform the vocal literature.  The candidate will have 30 minutes to rehearse with the vocalist.

All of the following - two must be from memory

1. A prelude & fugue from J.S. Bach’s Well-Tempered Clavier or other large works by Bach.
2. A full sonata by Haydn, Mozart, or Beethoven (excluding op. 49 & op. 79).
3. A large-scale Romantic work (e.g., Chopin, Schumann, Liszt, or Brahms).
4. A 20th-century work (e.g., Debussy, Ravel, Prokofiev, or Bartok).

All students must complete an interview with the Piano Pedagogy faculty.

All of the following from memory:

1. A prelude & fugue from J.S. Bach’s Well-Tempered Clavier or other large works by Bach.
2. A full sonata by Haydn, Mozart, or Beethoven (excluding op. 49 & op. 79).
3. A large-scale Romantic work (e.g., Chopin, Schumann, Liszt, or Brahms).
4. A 20th-century work (e.g., Debussy, Ravel, Prokofiev, or Bartok).

1. Audition in applied area of study (organ, piano, voice, or composition - see Primary Instrument Audition Requirements).
2. Conducting Audition -applicants will conduct Westminster Chapel Choir in an assigned piece at the on-campus audition 
3. Sacred Music Interview - interview with a member of the Sacred Music faculty
4. Applicants for Sacred Music Composition will also have an interview with the composition faculty and follow the requirements for a composition primary.

At least five works from memory from the list below, including Italian, French, German and English.  A single selection may be used to fulfill more than one requirement:

1. A recitative from the 17th or 18th century.
2. An aria from an opera or oratorio.
3. An art song 
4. One selection composed since 1950