Graduate Audition Dates

Auditions and/or interviews* are held in

  • graduate conducting
  • composition
  • music education
  • organ
  • piano
  • sacred music
  • voice

All Westminster Choir College auditions will take place on campus at Westminster Choir College in Princeton, NJ. Get Directions.

To register for an audition, students must submit the completed application for admission and submit the $50 application processing fee at least four weeks in advance of the requested audition date.

Contact the Office of Admission at 1-800-962-4647 or by email at wccadmission@rider.edu for more specific information.


On-Campus Auditions
No Choral Conducting, Sacred Music or Organ Performance applicants

  • Saturday, December 1, 2012
  • Friday, February 22nd, 2013
  • Friday, March 1st, 2013

Sacred Music (all concentrations) Auditions

  • February 15, 2013
  • March 4, 2013

Choral Conducting Auditions

  • February 1, 2013
  • February 25, 2013

All graduate Choral Conducting applicants must submit the application for admission and the pre-screening recording no later than December 1 to be considered for invitation to the on-campus auditions. Please see the Audition Requirements for specific information on the conducting pre-screening recording.


Organ Performance Auditions

  • March 4th, 2013

Regional Auditions
Voice auditions only

  • San Francisco - January 19th, 2013
  • Houston - January 26th, 2013
  • Oberlin - February 9th, 2013