Conducting

The conducting audition may be held on-campus with one of the Mississippi College choral ensembles or via video recording using a choir conducted by the candidate. Video submissions must be a minimum of 10 minutes of rehearsal and/or performance utilizing a full-front camera angle. Students interested in studying graduate organ must also complete a keyboard audition.

Music Education

A 15-minute unedited representative video of teaching.

Piano

Four memorized pieces to include one Baroque work (e.g., a Prelude and Fugue of Bach), a sonata from the Classical period, a work from the Romantic period, and either an Impressionist or Twentieth-Century work.

Piano Pedagogy

A memorized 20-minute program consisting of contrasting works from the standard literature.

Voice Performance and Pedagogy

Five selections in contrasting styles representing a minimum of three languages.