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For students who would like to enroll at Westminster Choir College of Rider University:

  1. Review the application requirements and deadlines for Rider University.  
  2. Submit your application to Rider University via the Common Application. 
  3. Select your specific major below to view individual audition/interview requirements and next steps.

View requirements

  1. Apply to Rider University via the Common Application.
  2. Receive access to your Be A Bronc Applicant dashboard via email: This will take at least 2 to 3 Business Days 
  3. Log in to your Be A Bronc Applicant account to register for an audition. 
  4. Review audition requirements: 
    • All of the following are required. All of the following must be from memory. 
    • Four songs from memory from the classical repertoire, representing various languages and/or style periods. The singer should demonstrate musical and vocal ability that gives promise of successful college-level study.
      • Suggested repertoire selections for all voice auditions include songs and arias of the 17th and 18th centuries, art songs from the 19th and 20th centuries, including spirituals, and/or operatic and oratorio literature when suitable for the singer.
  5. You will not receive academic acceptance prior to your audition. Admission decisions will be provided 1 to 2 weeks after your completed audition.

  1. Apply to Rider University via the Common Application.
  2. Receive access to your Be A Bronc Applicant dashboard via email: This will take at least 2 to 3 Business Days 
  3. Log in to your Be A Bronc Applicant account to register for an audition. 
  4. Review audition requirements: 
    • Audition on primary instrument: organ, piano, OR voice.
      • Piano: all of the following three works, at least one of which must be played from memory:
        • An Invention or Prelude and Fugue by Johann Sebastian Bach.
        • A first movement of a late 18th or early 19th century sonata by Joseph Haydn, Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, Ludwig van Beethoven, or Franz Schubert (excluding Beethoven op. 49; op. 79; and op. 27, no. 2).
        • A 19th, 20th, or 21st-century composition.
      • Organ: All of the following, of which one must be from memory:
        • One organ work by Bach, or another Baroque composer.
        • Two selections by romantic or contemporary composers, one lyric and one virtuosic.
        • One hymn, of the applicant’s choice
        • Sight-reading 
      • Voice: Two memorized songs from the classical repertoire. Suggested repertoire selections for all voice auditions include:
        • Songs and arias of the 17th and 18th centuries and/or art songs from the 19th and 20th centuries, including spirituals, and/or operatic and oratorio literature when suitable for the singer
    • Interview with the Music Education faculty.
  5. You will not receive academic acceptance prior to your audition. Admission decisions will be provided 1 to 2 weeks after your completed audition.

  1. Apply to Rider University via the Common Application.
  2. Receive access to your Be A Bronc Applicant dashboard via email: This will take at least 2 to 3 Business Days 
  3. Log in to your Be A Bronc Applicant account to register for an audition. 
  4. Review audition requirements: 
    • Audition on primary instrument: organ, piano, OR voice.
      • Piano: All of the following, of which one must be from memory:
        • An Invention or Prelude and Fugue by Johann Sebastian Bach.
        • A first movement of a late 18th or early 19th century sonata by Joseph Haydn, Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, Ludwig van Beethoven, or Franz Schubert (excluding Beethoven op. 49; op. 79; and op. 27, no. 2).
        • A 19th, 20th, or 21st-century composition.
      • Organ: 
        • One organ work by Bach, or another Baroque composer.
        • Two selections by romantic or contemporary composers, one lyric and on virtuosic.
        • One hymn, of the applicant’s choice.
        • Sight-reading.
      • Voice: Two memorized songs from the classical repertoire. Suggested repertoire selections for all voice auditions include:
        • Songs and arias of the 17th and 18th centuries and/or art songs from the 19th and 20th centuries, including spirituals, and/or operatic and oratorio literature when suitable for the singer.
  5. You will not receive academic acceptance prior to your audition. Admission decisions will be provided 1 to 2 weeks after your completed audition.

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800-257-9026
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