Audition Repertoire

​Music Education Major

• Prospective students will be required to interview with the Music Education faculty.
• Students with piano or guitar as primary instruments will be required to audition on a secondary instrument.

Music Composition Major

• In addition to submitting Composition prescreening materials listed above, prospective students must audition on their primary instrument.
  

​Teaching Concentration

• Prospective students are not required to audition on a primary instrument.
• Prospective students will be required to interview with the Music Education faculty.

Conducting Concentration (Choral, Orchestral, Wind Band)

MM Orchestral Conducting is not accepting applications for Fall 2023.​

On the graduate application, applicants must submit the following:

1. ​A 20- to 30-minute video in performance.
2. A 20- to 30-minute video conducting in rehearsal.
3. An up-to-date repertoire list of all works conducted. Feel free to delineate between works conducted in performance and those studied/not conducted in performance.​
4. Orchestral applicants only - a video performing their primary instrument.​

All videos should be from the perspective of the ensemble (facing the conductor), not the perspective of the audience.

Prospective students must also submit an up-to-date repertoire list of all works conducted. Feel free to delineate between works conducted in performance and those studied/not conducted in performance.

Videos should be no less than 15 minutes and no more than 40 minutes.

Composition Concentration

• Prospective students are required to interview with the Music Composition faculty.
• ​Prospective students are required to complete the Graduate Theory Examination on the day of the interview.

Composition Requirements

• Students must provide three scores with matching audio files which demonstrate composition experience for a variety of vocal and/or instrumental solos, chamber ensembles or large ensembles. Both scores and audio files are required. A program note on each piece should be included. This composition interview is an opportunity for each applicant to demonstrate proficient musical understanding and ability; applicants will discuss their composition portfolio with a Composition faculty member.

Acceptable styles for compositions include:

• Classical (concert, film, and electronic/electroacoustic)

• Jazz (fully realized scores, no chord charts)

• Musical Theatre (fully orchestrated scores, no piano reductions or chord charts)

• Compositions in popular/commercial styles are not acceptable.

All composition materials are due by January 15. Scores and audio/midi files should be attached within the music supplement of the application. To inquire about alternative submission methods, contact musicadmissions@udel.edu​.​

Graduate String Quartet Fellowship

• All members must be admissible to the University of Delaware for consideration.

• Applicants for the Graduate String Quartet Fellowship must audition on both their instrument as soloists and together as a pre-formed ensemble.

• Each individual applicant must provide one audition with the pre-formed ensemble.

• In addition each individual applicant must submit two solo works in contrasting styles/periods as described in the audition requirements by instrument. The Quartet must submit two contrasting works.​