Visual Arts applicants should submit a portfolio consisting of three to five of the applicant’s original artworks in a range of art media.

All Dance and Musical Theatre applicants must submit a video recording of a public performance. (If a video recording is not available, performance photographs may be considered at the discretion of the admissions committee.)

All Music conservatory applicants must submit a video fulfilling the following audition requirements:

  ► Scales, up to 3 sharps and flats, 2 octaves minimum, 100-110 speed

  ► Chromatic scale, 2 octaves minimum, 100-110 speed

  ► For instruments, an etude, sonata, or showpiece that demonstrates technical and interpretive accomplishment. (Piano accompaniment is not required.)

  ► For piano, two pieces, one from baroque period, one from classical period

Optional Advanced Requirements

  ► Scales, up to 4 sharps and flats, 3 octaves minimum plus arpeggios, 100-110 speed

  ► Chromatic scale, 2 octaves minimum, 100-110 speed

  ► Three pieces, one baroque period piece, one sonata from classical period, one etude, for example Czerny Opus 849 or one of similar or more advanced level

Applicants must submit a minimum of two recordings from the following options*:

  1. A classical song or aria from the 17th, 18th, or 19th-century European tradition, in English or Italian

  2. An American folk song from the 19th or 20th century

  3. A song from American Musical Theatre (Broadway), the 1930s through 2000s

Your recordings may be sung a capella or with a backing track. Songs need to be clearly labeled and submitted with:

  ► title
  ► name of the show (if applicable)
  ► year
  ► composer
  ► lyricist.

* You may submit a  jazz standard from the Great American Songbook or cover of a current jazz artist in place of option 3, or as a third addition.

Submitting pop or current rock music recordings is not recommended.