Audition requirements

• Three contrasting movements from any works which demonstrate your highest level of achievement. 
• Two of these movements need to be memorized.

• Applicants may audition with three suitable works such as a selection from a Bach suite or sonata, a classical or romantic work such as Giuliani, Coste, Regondi, or Barrios, and a modern work such as Brouwer, Takemitsu, Britten, Rodrigo, etc.

Please contact our Administrative Officer, Bethany McNeil, for more information.
Email: musicadmin@uvic.ca

For graduate flute auditions, questions or concerns regarding repertoire, please contact Dr. Suzanne Snizek ssnizek@uvic.ca.

All graduate flute applicants are requested to submit either a recorded audition (in lieu of a live audition) or, if preferred by the applicant, an online live audition (by arrangement with Dr. Snizek). A short online interview between wind faculty and the applicant may also be requested. 

Please prepare:

• Two contrasting movements from a sonata (or the Partita for Solo Flute) by J. S. Bach;
• One movement from a standard concerto (Mozart, Ibert, Haydn, C.P.E. Bach, Jolivet, etc.);
• One movement from a 20th- or 21st-century (tonal) sonata (Prokofieff, Poulenc, Muczynski, Morawetz, Liebermann, etc.);
• One solo avant-garde work (i.e., atonal and/or including "extended techniques" such as the Sequenza by Berio, Mei by Fukushima, In a Living Memory by Ichiyanagi, Air by Takemitsu, Density 21.5 by Varèse, etc.);

Further information about the flute program may be found at the UVic Flute Blog.

• Please prepare the exposition from movement 1 of Mozart's Clarinet Concerto K. 622 AND two contrasting movements from any works demonstrating your highest level of performance.
• Works with piano accompaniment must be presented with a pianist. The exposition of the Mozart Concerto may be performed without piano.

• Select a varied program of lyrical and technical works from oboe repertoire that would be appropriate for a graduating recital at the Bachelor of Music level.

• Auditions should include at least three major works from the applicant’s fourth year of undergraduate study.  

• Prepare 30 minutes of music covering at least 3 different style periods.
• Your program should be at a level equivalent to or higher than a fourth-year graduating recital.

• Prepare 45 minutes of music covering at least 3 different style periods.
• Your program should be at a level equivalent to or higher than a fourth-year graduating recital.
• It is recommended that applicants contact the Head in Piano, Professor Arthur Rowe (artrow@uvic.ca), to discuss the suitability of repertoire well in advance of the audition.