{"id":798,"date":"2026-05-13T18:01:10","date_gmt":"2026-05-13T18:01:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/nau.edu\/music\/?page_id=798"},"modified":"2026-05-13T18:01:10","modified_gmt":"2026-05-13T18:01:10","slug":"piano-audition-repertoire","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/in.nau.edu\/school-music\/degrees\/piano-audition-repertoire\/","title":{"rendered":"Piano audition repertoire"},"content":{"rendered":"<h1>Piano audition repertoire<\/h1>\n<h2>Undergraduate audition requirements<\/h2>\n<h3>3-4 memorized selections, including:<\/h3>\n<ul>\n<li>a work by Bach or from the Baroque period<\/li>\n<li>movement(s) of a classical sonata (Beethoven, Haydn, Mozart)<\/li>\n<li>romantic and\/or twentieth-century work<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h3>Sight Reading:<\/h3>\n<ul>\n<li>4-octave scales and arpeggios played in a steady tempo with correct fingerings<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h2>Graduate audition requirements<\/h2>\n<h3>Prescreening<\/h3>\n<p>By December 1, piano applicants for graduate degrees must submit a prescreening audition recording of 15 minutes of music.\u00a0 Upload the recording to YouTube or a similar online platform and send prescreening audition link to Dr. Silvan Negru<span lang=\"RO\">\u021biu<\/span>\u00a0at\u00a0<a href=\"mailto:silvan.negrutiu@nau.edu\" data-linkindex=\"1\">silvan.negrutiu@nau.edu<\/a>.<\/p>\n<h3><strong>On-Campus Audition (by invitation following your prescreening)<\/strong><\/h3>\n<p>Piano performance emphasis:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>three major contrasting works that are memorized<\/li>\n<li>scales &amp; arpeggios<\/li>\n<li>sight reading<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Collaborative Piano:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>two contrasting solo works<\/li>\n<li>a major instrumental sonata such as Beethoven or Brahms violin sonatas<\/li>\n<li>a set of German or French songs<\/li>\n<li>scales &amp; arpeggios<\/li>\n<li>sight reading<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h2>Contact<\/h2>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/directory.nau.edu\/departments?id=10430&amp;person=sn674&amp;src=music\">Dr. Silvan Negrutiu<\/a>, Director of Piano Studies<br \/>\nOffice: Building 37, Room 194<br \/>\nPhone: 928-523-3800<br \/>\nEmail: <a href=\"mailto:Silvan.Negrutiu@nau.edu\">Silvan.Negrutiu@nau.edu<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Piano audition repertoire Undergraduate audition requirements 3-4 memorized selections, including: a work by Bach or from the Baroque period movement(s) of a classical sonata (Beethoven, Haydn, Mozart) romantic and\/or twentieth-century work Sight Reading: 4-octave scales and arpeggios played in a steady tempo with correct fingerings Graduate audition requirements Prescreening By December 1, piano applicants for [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":316,"featured_media":0,"parent":386,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"ring_central_script_selection":null,"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-798","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/in.nau.edu\/school-music\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/798","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/in.nau.edu\/school-music\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/in.nau.edu\/school-music\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/in.nau.edu\/school-music\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/316"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/in.nau.edu\/school-music\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=798"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/in.nau.edu\/school-music\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/798\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4437,"href":"https:\/\/in.nau.edu\/school-music\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/798\/revisions\/4437"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/in.nau.edu\/school-music\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/386"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/in.nau.edu\/school-music\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=798"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}