Application process
The Sewanee Summer Music Festival is pleased to work with www.getacceptd.com for our application process. Audition recordings will be submitted through this portal as part of the application process.
Application Deadlines
February 15th, 2021: Deadline for 2020 Deposited Students to let us know if they would like their deposit and scholarship honored from 2020
February 15th, 2021: Priority Scholarship Application Deadline
$35 application fee
scholarship available for all studios
March 15th, 2021: Final Application Deadline
$75 application fee
scholarship available for some studios
Video Guidelines
All applications should be submitted using a video – audio-only applications will not be accepted under any circumstances.
Your videos should be of recent performances, no more than one year old.
Please upload the solo video and excerpt video(s) as different files, in accordance with the requirements listed below. Excerpts can be one video, with pauses in between, or separate videos.
Audition Requirements
All applicants – PLEASE REVIEW YOUR AREA AUDITION REQUIREMENTS CAREFULLY.
In addition to the selected excerpts, please upload a solo or selection of solos from a sonata, concerto or other work that amount to 5-7 minutes, demonstrating your current performance ability. These may be performed with or without piano accompaniment.
Violin
Mendelssohn: Midsummer’s Night Dream – Scherzo – 1st violin:
8 measures before “A” to 7 measures after DViola
Precollege applicants:
Glinka: Ruslan & Ludmilla – opening to letter “C”College applicants:
Brahms Haydn Variations #5Cello
Beethoven’s 5th symphony
Movement II: Pickups to mm. 1-10
Movement II: mm. 49-59
Movement II: mm. 98-106Double Bass
Select ONE of the 3 excerpts below. You do not have to prepare all three, just either #1, or #2, or #3
1. Beethoven Symphony no.5, mvt 3: Scherzo (mm. 1-78) AND Trio (pickup to m. 141 to 178) with no repeat
OR
2. Wagner Die Miestersinger Prelude: rehearsal J to rehearsal N
OR
3. Mozart’s Symphony no. 40 mvt. 1, pickup to m. 115 to m. 138Flute
Mendelssohn’s Midsummer Night’s Dream Scherzo: 2 bars before letter P until the end
Ravel’s Daphnis et Chloe: 176 until 2 bars after 179Oboe
Hindemith Symphonic Metamorphoses 1st mvmt.
Shostakovich 1st symphony, 3rd movementClarinet
Select TWO of the excerpts below:
Beethoven, Symphony 8, movement 3, Trio only
Brahms, Symphony 3, movement 2, measures 1-22
Kodaly, Galanta Dances, measures 31-65
Mendelssohn, Scherzo, measures 1-48 from a Midsummer Nights Dream
Rachmaninov, Symphony no. 2, beginning through tied C at 47Bassoon
Mozart Marriage of Figaro overture
1st bassoon – mm. 139 to 171Rimsky Korsakov Scheherazade
1st bassoon – 2nd movement solo and cadenzasHorn
All applicants ( pre-college and college):
Beethoven: Symphony No. 6, Mvt 3, Horn 1 — 50 after A through 79 after A
Tchaikovsky: Symphony No 5, Mvt 2, Horn 1 — 8 before A through 13 after AFor college applicants only (optional for pre-college students):
4 — Shostakovich: Symphony No 5, Mvt 1, Horn 1 — 3 after 17 through the first bar of 21Trumpet
Mussorgsky/Ravel, Pictures at an Exhibition
Beginning to rehearsal 2Mahler 5th symphony
Beginning to 5 after reh. 1
1 before reh. 13 to reh. 14Trombone
Tenor Trombone
Select ONE of the two solo’s listed below:
Grondahl – Concerto, mvt. 1
OR
David – Concertino, mvt. 1AND
Select TWO of the excerpts listed below:
Tomasi – Fanfares Liturgiques, mvt. 2 (Evangile – solo)
Strauss – Ein Heldenleben (Battle Scene – trombone 2)
Mozart – Tuba Mirum
Hindemith – Symphonic Metamorphosis (March)Bass Trombone
Select ONE of the solos listed below:
Lebedev – Concerto in One Movement
OR
Bozza – New OrleansAND
Select TWO of the excerpts listed below:
Haydn – The Creation (Achieved is the Glorious Works)
Respighi – Fountains of Rome
Wagner – Das Rheingold (Entrance of the Gods into Valhalla)
Berlioz – Hungarian MarchTuba
Berlioz – Hungarian March – Reh. 4 to 4 measures after Reh. 5
Prokofiev – Symphony #5, 1st mvt., Reh 3 to the end of the passage
Wagner – Meistersinger Overture J – LPercussion
Solo: one solo on each snare drum ( Delecluse, Peters, Cirone etc…), timpani ( Deleclude, Hochrainer, Carter etc…), and marimba ( bach, or contemporary solo).
If the solo work is over 10 minutes, or multi-movement, selections or a single movement – example: Druckman, Reflections on the Nature of Water, 1st and 2nd movement only would be enough.
Snare drum – Rimsky Korsakov Scheherazade 4th movement letter P-R
Xylophone – Gershwin Porgy and Bess, opening as it appears in the Goldenberg Book
Timpani – Beethoven 9th Symphony Coda of the first movement
Tambourine – Dvorak Carnival Overture, beginning to letter C
Piano
Two contrasting works that represent both lyrical and technical ability
Harp
Two contrasting orchestral excerpts
OR
An unaccompanied solo work and an orchestra excerptComposition
Composition applicants should submit scores of PDF ’s two contrasting works written for solo, chamber or large ensemble (orchestra, chamber orchestra or wind band). Recordings or midi realizations are not required but encouraged. In addition, two letters of recommendation are required.
Conductor's Institute
A video audition is required. Videos must be in the orchestra’s POV and give focus upon the conductor. The video must include at least two contrasting works and not exceed 15 minutes. Videos should show applicants conducting a full orchestra, wind ensemble or chamber ensemble. Applicants may also submit videos with piano, but an ensemble of at least six musicians is preferred.
Opera Fest Sewanee
Two contrasting arias