The practical exam (audition)
For the practical exam we ask you to prepare:

Two studies in contrasting character (melodic/technical), for instance by Bordogni, Kopprasch, Tyrell, Hering, etc.

One piece or movement with piano accompaniment. For instance:

• A. Guilmant - Morceau Symphonique
• C. Saint-Saëns - Cavatine
• C.M. von Weber - Romance
• P. Hindemith - Sonata (first movement)
• B. Marcello - 6 Sonatas (originally for cello) (first movement)
• K. Serocki - Sonatina (first movement)
• L. Grøndahl - Concerto (first movement)
• L.E. Larsson - Concertino (first movement)
• N. Rimsky-Korsakov - Concerto (first movement)

Works of comparable or higher level are also acceptable.

You might also be asked to participate in a short sight reading test.

The evaluation of the practical part of the entrance exam will be weighed by the following factors:

• musical expression
• technical realisation
• potential
• previous musical education

The combination of these factors is also of essential importance. Not (yet) being able to perform at an optimum standard is therefore in itself not a reason to prevent you from doing an entrance exam.

The theory exam

The theoretical part of the entrance exam consists of three sections: a written aural (hearing) test, singing from sight / performing a rhythm, and a general written theory test. The theory entrance exam is taken before the practical entrance examen.

written aural (hearing) test:

• identification and naming of intervals and triads with inversions

• notating a melodic fragment

• notating a rhythmic fragment

• notating a short two-part fragment

singing/rhythm from sight:

• the prima vista singing of some melodies

• the prima vista performing of some rhythms

general written theory test:

• notation of rhythm and pitch in treble clef and bass clef

• major and minor scales

• intervals and triads with inversions

• dominant seventh chord
  

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