Instrumental Music

Prepare and submit BOTH videos specified below. Students of all abilities and experience levels are encouraged to apply.

Video 1

Perform ONE prepared solo selection without accompaniment. Playing without accompaniment means playing by yourself without a track or additional instruments.

• Select a piece you feel confident performing that shows your skill level and musicality.

• Before playing, briefly introduce yourself, and provide the following information:

  • Your name

  • Your Student ID number (OSIS number)

  • Title of the piece you will be playing

  • Why did you choose this piece? How does this piece speak to you as a musician? (30 seconds or less)

Video 2

Perform ONE scale of your choice at a tempo (speed) you find comfortable. For Video #2, drummers (i.e., candidates who play non-pitched percussion instruments) submit a video of TWO rudiments, rather than scales.

• This is another opportunity for reviewers to learn more about how:

  • low and how high you can play.

  • comfortably and quickly you can move from note to note.

  • clean and precise your playing is.

  • well you are able to play in tune.

  • well you know what notes make up your selected scale.

  • playing the correct notes is most important.

• Before playing, briefly introduce yourself, and provide the following information:

  • Your name

  • Your Student ID number (OSIS number)

For help preparing a scale or if you do not know what a scale is, please see the Resources for Audition Preparations.

Call Backs

Individual schools may hold “call backs” and request that you attend an individual online appointment to perform additional music tasks, for example: singing back melodic patterns; tapping back rhythmic patterns; or completing a sight-reading task for which you play a short amount of music from sheet music you have not seen before.