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Piano Audition Requirements

Jazz Major: Piano
Audition Requirements

 
 

Auditions are scheduled on Saturday on campus at the School of Music

 
check back in August for new audition dates

 

Undergraduate piano majors must complete the classical piano audition. These are held on Saturdays, usually 4 times per year. Check the audition schedule.

A separately scheduled jazz piano only on-campus audition should be arranged with Hank Hehmsoth
(this is not the required classical audition). CD, VHS, and DVD auditions are accepted with prior approval.
Contact Hank Hehmsoth for submission.
 
to schedule an audition please fill out the online
Undergraduate Audition/Admissions form 

 

Audition Repertoire

 
 

Incoming Freshmen: Be prepared to perform the head and improvise from one the following 4 styles:
Transfer Students: Be prepared to perform the head and improvise from at least two the following 4 styles:
 
1. One Jazz Blues in a standard key (F, Bb, not C)
(to illustrate your knowledge of jazz blues form)
examples:
Bb Blues or F Blues - Aebersold

Blue Monk
Straight, No Chaser

Volume 54, Tracks 3 or 10
Volume 02, Tracks 3, 4, 8, or 9
Blue Train
Au Privave
2. One Jazz Ballad
(to illustrate your lyrical melodic style)
examples:
Misty
Tenderly
'Round Midnight
Funny Valentine
Some Other Time
My Romance
My Foolish Heart
Gershwin (any)
Ellington (any)
3. One Latin/Jazz or Jazz/Funk straight-8 (samba, bossa, funk/rock, salsa)
(to illustrate your rhythmic precision and groove)
examples:
Jobim (any)
Shadow Of Your Smile
Green Dolphin Street
Black Orpheus
Blue Bossa
Recordame
4. One Medium Tempo Standard, Jazz Standard, or original composition
(to illustrate your melodic style over chord changes)
examples:
Sweet Georgia Brown
Solar
Satin Doll
Ellington (any)
Fly Me To The Moon
There is no Greater Love
There Will Never Be Another You
Out Of Nowhere
Night and Day

All Jazz Piano Majors participate each semester in Texas State's extraordinary ensembles.
Ensemble auditions are separately scheduled.

More Questions? Contact Hank Hehmsoth

Freddie Mendoza - co-director; fm11@txstate.edu; (512) 245-1462
Keith Winking - co-director; kw09@txstate.edu; (512) 245-3020