Piano

Audition Requirements for Piano

All prospective students must be able to play major and minor scales and arpeggios with facility and appropriate fingerings. Students should be prepared to sight-read at a live audition. All materials must be submitted via SlideRoom. 

Each applicant to the instrumental performance program is also required to participate in an interview with the music faculty. Participating in a live audition day, either virtually or in-person, will fulfill this requirement. If you are unable to participate in a live audition day, please reach out to the Fine Arts Recruitment Office to schedule your interview. 

Majors in Music (Applied)

Prospective performance majors must play a memorized audition that demonstrates technical facility, musicality, and understanding of musical styles.

• A Prelude and Fugue from J.S Bach's The Well-Tempered Clavier, or two movements from a Bach Suite or Partita
• A fast movement from a Classical sonata
• A work from the Romantic, Impressionist, or Contemporary Era
  
  

Minors in Music, other music degree areas

Prospective piano minors or majors in all other degrees (music education and composition) must play a memorized audition that demonstrates technical facility, musicality, and understanding of musical styles consisting of the following works or their equivalents:

• An Invention by J.S. Bach
• A fast movement from a Classical sonata
• A work from the Romantic, Impressionist, or Contemporary Era
  
  

For more information, please contact the Fine Arts Recruitment Office at 310.506.4111, or via email at fineartsrecruit@pepperdine.edu.