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Graduate Voice Audition Repertoire

Bocelli Concert, 2/13/20, Infinite Energy Center, Atlanta

Bocelli Concert, 2/13/20, Infinite Energy Center, Atlanta

Pre-Screening

Submit your application to the School of Music and your pre-screening materials via Accept’d by December 1, 2023.

Please submit three (3) videos of recent performances, to be selected from the full audition repertoire requirements below.

Following a faculty review, select applicants will be invited to campus for a full live audition. The voice area chair will notify applicants of their admission status and schedule live auditions in early January 2024.

Live audition dates

Friday, January 26, 2024

Friday, February 2, 2024

Audition requirements

Master of Music in Voice

MM applicants must prepare six (6) memorized selections, to include:

  • One aria from the Baroque or Classical era including a recitative
  • One Romantic or 20th/21st-century aria
  • Four art songs OR three art songs and an additional aria

At least three languages, including English, must be represented. All repertoire should be sung in the original language.

 

Doctor of Musical Arts in Voice

DMA applicants must prepare eight (8) memorized selections, to include:

  • One aria from the Baroque or Classical era including a recitative
  • One Romantic aria
  • One 20th/21st-century aria
  • Four art songs OR three art songs and an additional aria
  • An additional (unrestricted) selection

At least four languages, including English, must be represented. All repertoire should be sung in the original language.

Applicants for the DMA should submit a writing sample that demonstrates the applicant's ability to write analytically and formally about music—including discussion of such issues as style, form, performance practice, and/or other musicological topics. A paper that was completed during the candidate's MM degree or within another academic program would suffice. The writing sample should be 5–10 pages in length.

Assistantships

The MM and DMA degree programs (non-Opera) have openings for all voices for Fall 2024.

The UGA Opera Theatre program has TA openings for mezzo and baritone for Fall 2024.

All applicants are automatically considered for voice and opera TAs.

 

Please contact Dr. Elizabeth Knight, Voice Area Chair, with questions.

 

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