Postgraduate audition information

You will need to submit a high-quality audition video online through a secured link on, for example, YouTube or Vimeo, or via a Dropbox link. Please ensure that your security settings allow access with permissions set so that files can be viewed and downloaded without requiring login details.

The recording must be dated and certified by the applicant as being an unedited performance. This should be accompanied by a signed document provided by the person in charge of the recording session confirming that the recording is an unedited performance by the applicant. The video should show uninterrupted vision of the applicant facing the camera.

For the audition video, applicants are required to prepare a program of contrasting repertoire of approximately 30 minutes duration. A portion of your program must feature accompanied works i.e. with piano.

An interview with staff from the Conservatorium and/or a quick study and/or sight-reading exercise may also be required.

The interview will focus on your directions and goals, musical experience, musical knowledge, general education and other relevant matters. You may present a resume of achievements and experience at the interview, if you wish.

You will need to submit a high-quality audition video online through a secured link on, for example, YouTube or Vimeo, or via a Dropbox link. Please ensure that your security settings allow access with permissions set so that files can be viewed and downloaded without requiring login details.

The recording must be dated and certified by the applicant as being an unedited performance. This should be accompanied by a signed document provided by the person in charge of the recording session confirming that the recording is an unedited performance by the applicant. The video should show uninterrupted vision of the applicant facing the camera.

For the audition video, applicants are required to prepare a program of contrasting repertoire of approximately 30 minutes duration (preferably from the concert/oratorio/art song/operatic repertory).

An interview with staff from the Conservatorium and/or a quick study and/or sight-reading exercise may also be required.

The interview will focus on your directions and goals, musical experience, musical knowledge, general education and other relevant matters. You may present a resume of achievements and experience at the interview, if you wish.

You will need to submit a high-quality audition video online through a secured link on, for example, YouTube or Vimeo, or via a Dropbox link. Please ensure that your security settings allow access with permissions set so that files can be viewed and downloaded without requiring login details.

The recording must be dated and certified by the applicant as being an unedited performance. This should be accompanied by a signed document provided by the person in charge of the recording session confirming that the recording is an unedited performance by the applicant. The video should show uninterrupted vision of the applicant facing the camera.

For the audition video, applicants are required to prepare a program of contrasting repertoire of approximately 30 minutes duration. The recorded audition is to demonstrate technical proficiency, stylistic awareness and an advanced level of improvisational ability on your chosen instrument.

Appropriate repertoire could include more difficult standards from the American songbook (for example, The Song is You, Chelsea Bridge, How My Heart Sings, Lush Life, Round Midnight) and/or jazz compositions from the 1960s onwards (for example, Wayne Shorter, Chick Corea, Richie Beirach, Dave Liebman, Bill Evans), which will demonstrate a familiarity with modern harmonic and improvisational vocabulary.

You may perform solo, with an accompanist or a pre-recorded backing track, or even with a group.

An interview with staff from the Conservatorium and/or a quick study and/or sight-reading exercise may also be required.

The interview will focus on your directions and goals, musical experience, musical knowledge, general education and other relevant matters. You may present a resume of achievements and experience at the interview, if you wish.

You will need to submit a high-quality audition video online through a secured link on, for example, YouTube or Vimeo, or via a Dropbox link. Please ensure that your security settings allow access with permissions set so that files can be viewed and downloaded without requiring login details.

The recording must be dated and certified by the applicant as being an unedited performance. This should be accompanied by a signed document provided by the person in charge of the recording session confirming that the recording is an unedited performance by the applicant. The video should show uninterrupted vision of the applicant facing the camera.

For the audition video, applicants are required to prepare a program of contrasting repertoire of approximately 30 minutes duration. Your repertoire choices should reflect your appreciation for a broad range of contemporary styles (for example, swing, ballad funk, pop, music theatre) and should be contrasting in tempo and mood. At least one of the repertoire selections should be a jazz standard from the American songbook in the style of artists such as Ella Fitzgerald, Sarah Vaughan, Frank Sinatra, Tony Bennett or Kurt Elling. (A jazz standard is virtually any song composed by Gershwin, Porter, Berlin, Rodgers, Arlen, Schwartz and Ellington). You are expected to demonstrate the relevant style elements and vocal production for each of your repertoire choices.

Use of either pre-recorded backing track or live accompaniment is acceptable.

An interview with staff from the Conservatorium and/or a quick study and/or sight-reading exercise may also be required.

The interview will focus on your directions and goals, musical experience, musical knowledge, general education and other relevant matters. You may present a resume of achievements and experience at the interview, if you wish.

You will need to submit a high-quality audition video online through a secured link on, for example, YouTube or Vimeo, or via a Dropbox link. Please ensure that your security settings allow access with permissions set so that files can be viewed and downloaded without requiring login details.

The recording must be dated and certified by the applicant as being an unedited performance. This should be accompanied by a signed document provided by the person in charge of the recording session confirming that the recording is an unedited performance by the applicant. The video should show uninterrupted vision of the piano keyboard, and also show a side profile of the face and torso of the applicant.

For the audition video, applicants are required to prepare a program of contrasting repertoire of approximately 30 minutes duration.

An interview with staff from the Conservatorium and/or a quick study and/or sight-reading exercise may also be required.

The interview will focus on your directions and goals, musical experience, musical knowledge, general education and other relevant matters. You may present a resume of achievements and experience at the interview, if you wish.

You will need to submit a high-quality audition video online through a secured link on, for example, YouTube or Vimeo, or via a Dropbox link. Please ensure that your security settings allow access with permissions set so that files can be viewed and downloaded without requiring login details.

The recording must be dated and certified by the applicant as being an unedited performance. This should be accompanied by a signed document provided by the person in charge of the recording session confirming that the recording is an unedited performance by the applicant. The video should show uninterrupted vision of the applicant facing the camera.

For the audition video, applicants are required to prepare a program of contrasting repertoire of approximately 30 minutes duration.

An interview with staff from the Conservatorium and/or a quick study and/or sight-reading exercise may also be required.

The interview will focus on your directions and goals, musical experience, musical knowledge, general education and other relevant matters. You may present a resume of achievements and experience at the interview, if you wish.

You will need to submit a high-quality audition video online through a secured link on, for example, YouTube or Vimeo, or via a Dropbox link. Please ensure that your security settings allow access with permissions set so that files can be viewed and downloaded without requiring login details.

The recording must be dated and certified by the applicant as being an unedited performance. This should be accompanied by a signed document provided by the person in charge of the recording session confirming that the recording is an unedited performance by the applicant. The video should show uninterrupted vision of the applicant facing the camera.

For the audition video, applicants are required to prepare a program of contrasting repertoire of approximately 30 minutes duration. A portion of your program must feature accompanied works i.e., with piano (harp and classical guitar excluded).

An interview with staff from the Conservatorium and/or a quick study and/or sight-reading exercise may also be required.

The interview will focus on your directions and goals, musical experience, musical knowledge, general education and other relevant matters. You may present a resume of achievements and experience at the interview, if you wish.

You will need to submit a high-quality audition video online through a secured link on, for example, YouTube or Vimeo, or via a Dropbox link. Please ensure that your security settings allow access with permissions set so that files can be viewed and downloaded without requiring login details.

The recording must be dated and certified by the applicant as being an unedited performance. This should be accompanied by a signed document provided by the person in charge of the recording session confirming that the recording is an unedited performance by the applicant. The video should show uninterrupted vision of the applicant facing the camera.

For the audition video, applicants are required to prepare a program of contrasting repertoire of approximately 30 minutes duration. A portion of your program must feature accompanied works i.e., with piano.

An interview with staff from the Conservatorium and/or a quick study and/or sight-reading exercise may also be required.

The interview will focus on your directions and goals, musical experience, musical knowledge, general education and other relevant matters. You may present a resume of achievements and experience at the interview, if you wish.