The solo song for 2025-2026 is:

Solo: "Per La Gloria" from 24 Italian Songs and Arias, G. Schirmer

Sing Verse 1 (m. 1-48) for Medium High Voice (S/T) or Medium Low Voice (A/B), no ornaments, in Italian.

There are 4 components to the vocal audition:

1) Vocal Solo: Per La Gloria

2) Major scale ascending and descending. (added back to the audition) Low voice Bb and High voice F. Quarter note on tonic, followed by eighths.

3) Sight Singing

• The examples will use Do, Re, Mi, Fa, Sol and La.

• The examples will be four measures long and will be mostly stepwise.  The example may include the skip of a 3rd ascending on the tonic triad as well as Sol descending to Do. 

• The example may include quarter rests only.

• Any combination of whole, half, quarter, and eighth notes.  Eighth notes may exist in pairs or groups of four.

• Sight-singing will be in the same key as their scales.  (Bb for low and F for high).

• Students will hear I-IV-V-I followed by the tonic/octave starting note to prepare the ear. 

• Students will be given a minute to look over the example prior to singing.

4) Pitch Matching

• A series of three 3-note patterns in 2 registers in a comfortable range.