All auditions last 10-15 minutes and are conducted privately with a small group of music faculty. Audition results will be mailed the week following the audition.

Contact Connie Bailey in the Music Department office (410-455-2942) to arrange for a departmental audition. Students interested in early acceptance to UMBC must audition in November.

Students interested in applying and auditioning for the Linehan Artist Scholars program should contact Barbara Shahpazian, Associate Director of Scholarships, for applications and audition scheduling (410-455-3813).

Students interested in applying for scholarships are required to audition in February.

• 2 art songs in contrasting styles, with one piece in English
• It is highly recommended that singers bring their own accompanist
• Sightreading will be included in the audition

• 2 pieces in contrasting styles
• 2 scales, 2 octaves (defined by the faculty committee)
• Sightreading will be included in the audition

• Two pieces/movements in contrasting styles (i.e. two contrasting movements from a concerto; a movement of a concerto and a movement of Bach’s unaccompanied works; a show piece and a slow work; a movement of a concerto and a movement of a sonata; two contrasting movements from a sonata)
• An etude
• Three octave scales and arpeggios (all major and minor keys)
• Sightreading will be included in the audition.

• Two prepared pieces: 1) A mid-tempo jazz standards (Students applying for Jazz Performance must include improvisation). 2) A piece demonstrating instrumental facility. Examples include an up-tempo jazz composition, a classical etude or repertoire, a jazz transcription, or a solo arrangement.

• 12 major scales and chromatic scale.
• Basic seventh chord arpeggios (root position) in all keys. Piano an guitar also need to demonstrate voicings.
• Sightreading
• Applicants auditioning on drum set will be asked to demonstrate a variety of grooves and tempi. Additional material on piano or mallet percussion is also required.

At your audition we would like you to demonstrate your skills on the following instruments IF you have studied them:

• snare drum
• mallets (marimba, xylophone, etc.)
• timpani

You should prepare a solo on each of the above instruments for which you have developed some skills. Do not try to audition on an instrument on which you have developed no skills. On the other hand do not hesitate to demonstrate your proficiency on the instruments which you have studied. You will be given some sight-reading. If your audition includes mallets, you will be asked to play some scales. If you play drumset, we’d like to hear that as well. However, do not prepare a drumset solo.

In addition to the above instrumental/vocal audition requirements

• Improvisation is optional
• Provide a portfolio of no more than 5 compositions (and recordings, if available). Please deliver these materials at least 1 week prior to the audition to:
  UMBC Department of Music
  ATTN: Connie Bailey
  1000 Hilltop Circle
  Baltimore, MD 21250
  

In addition to the above instrumental/vocal audition requirements

• Improvisation is optional.
• Provide a CD or DVD demonstrating your best recording efforts. Documentation describing the contents of the recording and your role in the production should also be included. Please also describe any other pertinent experience such as software design, sound production etc. that you might have. Please deliver these materials at least 1 week prior to the audition to: UMBC Department of Music
  ATTN: Connie Bailey
  1000 Hilltop Circle
  Baltimore, MD 21250