Audition Requirements --- Classical ACP Option, Vocal and Instrumental

General Requirements (all applicants)

Entering students must demonstrate advanced musical skill and performance experience. All
repertoire must be performed at a level equivalent to a graduate program Master's audition.
Programs from two recent performances of recitals, opera roles, chamber music or concertos
must be submitted with the application.

Accordion 1. A Bach Prelude and Fugue OR comparable Bach work: Suite, Toccata or
Partita
2. A transcription of a work of Haydn or representative group of shorter
keyboard works of D. Scarlatti, Rameau, etc.
four works
3. Any two substantial 20th or 21st Century compositions.

The submitted program should be at least 50 minutes in duration, representing

works from the Baroque, Pre-Classical/Classical and 20th/21st century.

Brass and 1. A Baroque or Classical composition

Woodwinds 2. A major sonata
3. A substantial 20th or 21st century composition
4. One additional work with piano accompaniment or five standard orchestral
excerpts representing the applicant's area of interest.

The submitted program should be at least 50 minutes in duration.

Guitar Four contrasting pieces from the following periods:

A piece written before 1750
One Classical or Romantic piece
One Spanish or South American piece
A piece written after 1900

The submitted program should total 20-30 minutes in duration.

Harpsichord 1. A Bach Prelude and Fugue (four or five voice) or other major Bach work:
Suite, Toccata or Partita
2. Two works in contrasting national styles
3.Figured-bass accompaniment: provided to the applicant in advance;

Solo repertoire submitted should total approximately 45 minutes in duration.

 ACP Percussion Candidates may prepare either option A or Option B

Option A
Three solo works (snare drum, timpani, mallets) plus orchestral excerpts.
Option B
Percussion Four solo works (snare drum, timpani, mallets and multi-percussion)

Recommended multi percussion works:

Rebonds A (Xenakis)
Rebonds B (Xenakis)
Side by Side (Kitazume)
She who Sleeps with a Small Blanket (Volans)
Ashanga (Kevin Volans)

Or similar instrumentation and level. Contact percussion area chair with your choice
of multi percussion works ahead of time if it is not on this list.

Recommended orchestral excerpt list:

Timpani
Beethoven Symphony No.9 —1st movement (18 before S to the end)

Snare
Rimsky-Korsakov Scheherazade—3rd and 4th movements

Xylophone
Gershwin Porgy and Bess (first excerpt)
Messiaen Oiseaux Exotiques (no. 4-7; no. 26-31)

Orchestral Bells
Mozart Magic Flute

Cymbals
Rachmaninoff Piano Concerto No. 2 (no. 32; no. 37)

Tambourine
Dvorak Carnival Overture

*If you have difficulty accessing percussion instruments for the 2021 Admissions cycle,
please contact Area Chair Aiyun Huang (aiyun.huang@utoronto.ca) for alternate
requirements.
Piano 1. A work by J.S. Bach – a Prelude and Fugue, Toccata, or 3 movements from a
Partita or Suite
2. A Classical Sonata
3. A substantial Romantic work
4. A 20th or 21st Century Composition

The submitted program should be at least 50 minutes in duration.

1. A major work by Bach

Strings 2. A major Classical or Romantic Sonata
3. A substantial 20th or 21st century composition (preferably Canadian after
1960)
4. One additional work representing the candidate's area of interest.

The submitted program should be at least 50 minutes in duration, representing

works from four different periods from baroque to the 21st century

Voice 1. One opera aria and one aria from an oratorio, cantata or motet in the
original language.
2. No fewer than four art songs in a foreign language representing styles of the
17th to 21st Centuries.
3. No fewer than two English art songs composed after 1960.

No fewer than four languages should be represented in the audition repertoire

Applicants are welcome to include one additional selection, in any language or

style, which is relevant to their heritage or musical background.