Strings
For details on requirements, click on the instrument on which you will be auditioning.
Cello, Classical Guitar, Viola
Two or three selections—including movements from sonatas, concertos, and other solo pieces—of contrasting styles from standard repertoires; major and minor scales. Compositions chosen should demonstrate the applicant's ability in phrasing, sustained playing, and technical facility, including legato and staccato at varied tempi.
- two movements from a baroque sonata by a composer such as Eccles or Antoniotti, or a work of comparable difficulty
- one étude to demonstrate applicant's level of technical ability
- orchestral excerpts from a symphony by Beethoven, Mozart, or Haydn
- major and minor scales and arpeggios in two octaves
Harp
Two contrasting solos of choice; Level III/Advanced-Professional Warm-Up, from On Playing the Harp, by Yolanda Kondonassis, published by Carl Fischer; one orchestral excerpt of choice. For more information, download the Harp Applicant Information Sheet or visit www.yolandaharp.com/faq.html
2011 - 2012 Harp Audition Dates
If you are applying to Oberlin only, the audition date will be February 18, 2012. If you are applying only to Oberlin and February 18, 2012 is an impossibility, please contact Ms. Kondonassis' assistant Jennifer Ellis at ykassistant@gmail.com. If you are applying to both CIM and Oberlin, your audition must be held at CIM and must be scheduled through the CIM admissions office. Your CIM audition will be considered your Oberlin audition as well.
Violin
- one movement from a Bach solo sonata or partita
- one first movement from a standard violin concerto (other than a Bach concerto)
- a study such as Dont, Gavinies, Rode, or Paganini
- major and minor scales in 16th notes, three octaves.
Either the Bach solo piece or the concerto movement should be memorized
Violin Artist Diploma
- First movement of a Mozart concerto with cadenza
- One Paganini caprice
- First two movements from any Bach solo sonata or the Chaconne from the D minor Sonata
- One piece written after 1940
- Complete Romantic or 20th-century concerto
