back to: • Conservatory Admissions • Strings Division		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.
	back to: • Conservatory Admissions • Strings Division		Double Bass two movements from a baroque sonata by a composer such as Eccles or Antoniotti, or a work of comparable difficulty one etude 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
	back to: • Conservatory Admissions • Strings Division		Harp Two constrasting 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. Harp auditions are specially arranged on the harp teacher's midweek teaching days. Auditions should be scheduled through the Conservatory Admissions Office. For more information, download the Harp Applicant Information Sheet.
	back to: • Conservatory Admissions • Strings Division		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 1st 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