Auditions and Interviews

1. Submit your Online Application including all official transcripts, two letters of recommendation, aims & objectives statement, and resume.
2. All applicants must submit pre-screen recordings using the link received in your Rider Application Confirmation email - on your Be a Bronc Dashboard. Applicants must submit a pre-screen recording in order to be considered for an invitation to an on-campus audition. The requirements for the recording are as follows:
   • The recording must be in English.
   • 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.)
   • Camera positioned to show a head-on view.
   • Music of contrasting tempi that demonstrates legato and marcato gesture.
   • Follow the instructions for uploading the pre-screening recording found using the link received in your Rider Application Confirmation email.
3. A list of works conducted must be uploaded to the Be A Bronc Dashboard.
4. Deadline: The application, prescreen recording, and list of works conducted must be submitted no later than December 1st.
   • Our faculty will review all of the submitted pre-screening recordings and invite selected candidates to audition on campus. You will be notified via email when a decision has been made and you are ready to register for an audition.
5. Register for and attend your Choral Conducting Audition. Audition requirements will be shared here in Fall 2025. Please remember that auditions are by invitation only upon passing the prescreen.

1. Submit your Online Application including all official transcripts, two letters of recommendation, aims & objectives statement, and resume.
2. Audition in applied area of study (organ, piano, voice, or composition - see below).
3. Conducting Audition -applicants will conduct a Westminster choir in an assigned piece at the on-campus choral conducting audition (see above dates). You can register for this on your Be A Bronc Dashboard once you have applied.
4. Sacred Music Interview - interview with a member of the Sacred Music faculty
5. Applicants for Sacred Music Composition will also have an interview with the composition faculty and follow the requirements for a composition primary.

1. Submit your Online Application including all official transcripts, two letters of recommendation, aims & objectives statement, and resume.
2. Conducting Video - Applicants must submit a recording of 10-15 minutes of rehearsal.
   • At least 2 different pieces of contrasting style and time period must be featured.
   • The video should be from the perspective of the choir with the camera facing the conductor's face and hands.
3. Interview with a member of the Sacred Music faculty will be arranged.*

^{*Upon receipt of the completed application and all requirements, candidates will receive instructions via email on scheduling the interview.}

1. Submit your Online Application including all official transcripts, two letters of recommendation, aims & objectives statement, and resume.
2. Register for an audition on your Be a Bronc Dashboard.
3. Complete the GIA Music AMMA Test sent to your email within 36 hours of registering for your audition. The assessment will come from a GIA Music email address and will measure aural skills. It will take about 25 minutes to complete the test.
4. Audition Requirements:
   • 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:
     • A recitative from the 17th or 18th century.
     • An aria from an opera or oratorio.
     • An art song.
     • One selection composed since 1950.

Note: this is NOT the full-time MM in Choral Conducting

1. Submit your Online Application including all official transcripts, two letters of recommendation, aims & objectives statement, and resume.
2. Conducting Video: Applicants must submit a recording of 10-15 minutes of rehearsal.
   • At least 2 different pieces of contrasting style and time period must be featured.
   • The video should be from the perspective of the choir with the camera facing the conductor's face and hands.
3. Interview with a member of the Choral Conducting faculty will be arranged.*

^{*Upon receipt of the completed application and all requirements, candidates will receive instructions via email on scheduling the admissions interview.}

1. Submit your Online Application including all official transcripts, two letters of recommendation, and resume. 
2. A digital portfolio to include:
   • Video recording of conducting or classroom teaching (approximately forty minutes and should not be a concert or performance).
   • Philosophy of Music Education (5-10 pages in length). This can be uploaded in place of the Aims & Objectives Statement requirement.
   • Submission of a teaching portfolio including lesson plan documentation.
3. Personal interview with a member of the Music Education faculty.*

^{*Upon receipt of the completed application and other requirements, candidates will receive instructions via email on scheduling the admissions interview.}

Note: this is NOT the MM in Voice Pedagogy and Performance

1. Submit your Online Application including all official transcripts, two letters of recommendation, aims & objectives statement, and resume.
2. Admissions interview (scheduled with a member of the program faculty).*

^{*Upon receipt of the completed application and other requirements, candidates will receive instructions via email on scheduling the admissions interview.}

All applicants with a concentration in conducting must complete an on-campus conducting audition. Auditionees will follow the audition requirements of the M.M. Choral Conducting program listed above. M.M. Sacred Music applicants do not need to submit the prescreens that the Choral Conducting applicants do.

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

Graduate audition requirements for organ primary:

1. One major work by Bach (e.g., Prelude & Fugue, Fantasia & Fugue, a complex chorale setting from the Leipzig Chorales) 
   • (items 2 and 3 should be of contrasting musical styles from each other)
2.  One representative work from the 19th century
3. One representative work from the 20th century 
4. A prepared hymn, of the applicant’s choice
5. Sight-reading