Personal Statement Video (Required for All Students)

In a single, unedited video, please record yourself answering one of the three personal statement questions below in 90 seconds or less. Please begin your video by stating which question number you are answering. Answer specifically and express your unique perspective.

1. How have you used, or how do you believe you can use your musical experience to shape the world around you? Give us a specific example of this and explain how it has or could impact the people that surround you.

2. What are some of the skills, lessions, and values you've learned from studying music that will help your be successful in the life you envision?

3. Who is someone that inspires you, musically or as a person? Tell us about why this musical/person inspires you, and what you have learned about this person's ability to create inspiration through their work.

Musical Audition (Required for all students)

The musical audition is comprised of two sections:

1. Assigned scales

2. Assigned music excerpts

The following links will provide information on Required Excerpts specifically for your instrument.

• Violin Tchaikovsky Sym 2 Allegro Vivo
• Violin_Mozart Symphony 39 1st mov
• Violin Mozart Sym 39 Andante con moto
• Viola William Tell 20 to 21
• Viola Tchaikovsky Sym 2 1st mov I to K
• Viola Tchaikovsky Sym 2 1st mov D to E
• Trumpet Tchaikovsky Sym 2 K to L
• Trumpet Tchaikovsky Sym 2 D to E
• Trombone Tchaikovsky Sym 2 C to dbl bar
• Timp Beethoven Sym 1 2nd mov B
• Oboe Schubert Sym 9 m9 to A
• Oboe Schubert Sym 9 F
• Mallets Sorcerers App 17 to 19
• Horns in E William Tell L to M
• Horn in E William Tell after All Vivace
• Flute William Tell C to D
• Flute William Tell Andante to F
• Clarinet in A William Tell C to D
• Clarinet Bb Don Quixote 5 to 6
• Cello Bass William Tell G to H
• Cello Bass William Tell All Vivace
• Cello Bass Tchaikovsky Sym 2 1st mov to B
• Bassoon William Tell C to D
• Bassoon William Tell 22 to 23
• Tuba Tchaikovsky Sym 2 4th mov