Department of
Music
Admissions
Department of Music
Hamel Hall 207
8495 University Blvd.
music@andrews.edu
(269) 471-3555

ADMISSIONS

Prospective music majors, minors, and graduate students must complete a dual application process. These two application processes may be undertaken simultaneously:

  1.     Apply to Andrews University.
  2.     Apply to the Andrews University Department of Music:

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DEADLINES

  • January 31: Audition and application deadline for consideration for the undergraduate Promising Artist Scholarship
  • April 1: Regular audition and application deadline for all undergraduate and graduate applicants applying to begin during the fall semester

AUDITIONS

  • Each prospective music major, minor, and graduate student must audition for provisional acceptance into the Department of Music. The purpose of the audition is to demonstrate the student’s musical and technical abilities
  •  Applicants are strongly encouraged to audition on campus
  •  Schedule your audition through the Music Office (music@andrews.edu), or contact your music performance Area Coordinator directly
  •  If you cannot audition in person, a good-quality video recording is accepted (see links above)
  •  All admissions based on the entrance audition are provisional. Final admission will be granted at December juries or at the end of the academic year (April juries). If, by that time the student is not granted admission as music major/minor, he/she will be advised to change majors

AUDITION REQUIREMENTS

Area Coordinator

Max Keller (maxk@andrews.edu)

Undergraduate

  • Write a short essay describing your desire and goals in studying composition.
  • Submit 2 compositions with recordings (midi is acceptable) that showcase your current work.
  • Prepare for an interview discussing your submitted materials and future.

 

Graduate

  • Write a short essay describing your influences, desire, and goals in studying composition at the graduate level.
  • Submit 3 compositions of differing instrumentation with recordings (midi is acceptable) that showcase your current work.
  • Prepare for an interview discussing your submitted materials, undergraduate education, and future.

Area Coordinators

Choral Conducting: Stephen Zork (stezork@andrews.edu)
Orchestral Conducting:  Marc Élysée (elyseem@andrews.edu)
Wind Symphony: Byron Graves (gravesb@andrews.edu)

 

  • Provide a list of repertoire performed that shows evidence or demonstrates equivalency of three years of conducting experience.
  • Submit aural and visual recordings of rehearsals and conducted performances.
  • Submit printed programs of personally conducted concerts (min. 3).
  • Submission of undergraduate senior recital recording, or, latest solo recital in applied area. (Choral candidates must include a solo vocal recording of themselves, if their undergraduate recital was in a different area).
  • Upon submission of conducting audition materials, area coordinators may ask for additional audition materials.

Area Coordinator

Kenneth Logan (klogan@andrews.edu)

Undergraduate

  • Baroque: a prelude (fantasia) and fugue, or an organ chorale
  • Romantic: a representative work
  • Hymn: all stanzas, played so as to accompany a congregation
  • Applicants with substantial piano background but who lack adequate organ experience may audition with works on the piano:
  • Baroque: work of J. S. Bach: a prelude and fugue from The Well-Tempered Clavier or a substantial two- or three-part invention; or two contrasting movements from a Baroque suite or toccata
  • Romantic: a representative work
  • Hymn: all stanzas, played so as to accompany a congregation


Graduate

  • Baroque: a substantial prelude (fantasia) and fugue, such as J. S. Bach’s Prelude and Fugue in G Major, S. 541
  • Romantic: a substantial movement of a sonata or other extended work, such as the first movement of Felix Mendelssohn’s Sonata, op. 65, no. 1.
  • Post-Romantic: a substantial work
  • Hymn: all stanzas, interpreted creatively so as to accompany a congregation
  • In addition, applicants should present a list of major repertoire studied.
  • For graduate programs, an applicant whose audition indicates achievement substantially below the level of the analogous preliminary undergraduate program (B.A. for an M.A. applicant, B.Mus./Performance for an M.Mus./Performance applicant, etc.) may be admitted with an applied-music deficiency to be removed prior to commencing degree-requirement applied studies.

Area Coordinator

Chi Yong Yun (yunc@andrews.edu)


 Bachelor of Music, Music Performance

  • One Prelude and Fugue from J. S. Bach, Well-Tempered Clavier
  • One Beethoven Sonata movement
  • A Romantic work demonstrating technical accomplishment
  • A twentieth-century or twenty-first-century work of the applicant’s choice
    All pieces must be presented from memory

 

Bachelor of Music, Music Education
Bachelor of Arts
or Bachelor of Science in Music

  • 1. One two-part or three-part Invention (Sinfonia) by J. S. Bach
  • 2. Any first movement of a sonata by Beethoven, Haydn, or Mozart
  • 3. A short work from the nineteenth or twentieth century
    All pieces must be presented from memory

 

Minor in Music

  • All Music Minor applicants should prepare two contrasting works from different styles/periods
    All pieces should be presented from memory

 

Master of Music, Music Performance

  • All MMus Music performance applicants should prepare three major contrasting works from different styles and periods. Any sonata presented should be done in its entirety.
    All pieces must be presented from memory

 

Master of Music, Music Education
Master of Music, Music Ministry
or Master of Arts

  • One Prelude and Fugue from J. S. Bach, Well-Tempered Clavier
  • One sonata movement by Beethoven, Mozart, or Haydn
  • A Romantic work demonstrating technical accomplishment
  • A twentieth-century or twenty-first-century work of the applicant’s choice
    All pieces must be presented from memory

Area Coordinator

Carla Trynchuk (trynchuk@andrews.edu)

Violin

  • Movement of an unaccompanied Sonata or Partita by J. S. Bach
  • Movement of a standard violin concerto
  • Choose one 3-octave major, melodic minor, harmonic minor, and their corresponding 3-octave arpeggios.
    All pieces must be presented from memory

 

Viola

  • A movement of unaccompanied Sonata or Partita by J. S. Bach or Unaccompanied Cello Suite, transcribed for viola
  • Concerto for viola and orchestra by Franz A. Hoffmeister, Movement I, or a movement of another concerto of equal difficulty
  • Choose one 3-octave major, melodic minor, harmonic minor, and their corresponding 3-octave arpeggios.
    All pieces must be presented from memory

 

Cello

  • One movement from the unaccompanied Cello Suites by J. S. Bach    
  • One movement of a cello concerto or one virtuoso piece of choice with similar length 
  • 3-octave major and minor (harmonic and melodic) scales
    All pieces must be presented from memory

 

String Bass - Undergraduate:

  • Two or three contrasting pieces or movements 
  • One major and one minor scale in three octaves
    All pieces must be presented from memory

 

Graduate violin, viola, cello, and bass:

  • One major and one minor scale in three octaves
  • One substantial movement of an unaccompanied Bach piece (sonata/ partita)
  • One movement of a concerto 
  •  3-octave major and minor scales

 

Guitar - Undergraduate & graduate

  • A movement from a major work by J.S. Bach (selected from Cello Suites, Lute Suites, or Violin Sonatas & Partitas)
  • A contrasting work from the Classical, Romantic, 20th or 21st Century era.

Area Coordinator

Charles Reid (reidc@andrews.edu)
 

Undergraduate:

  • Compose a brief essay discussing why you want to study voice and how you intend to use this talent.
  • Bring music for your accompanist.
  • 2 songs of contrasting style in your native language (if you have prepared songs in other languages, you are encouraged to offer them).
  • Sight reading
    All songs must be presented from memory


Graduate

  • Compose a brief essay outlining your journey as a singer and your future objectives for this talent.
  • Bring music for your accompanist.
  • 5 songs, one each in German, French, Italian, and English language. The fifth selection is of your choosing. 
  • Sight reading (2-3 selections)
    All songs must be presented from memory
     

Area Coordinator

Byron Graves (gravesb@andrews.edu)
 

Winds

  • 2 pieces in contrasting styles on primary instrument. These pieces may include standard works, etudes, or extended excerpts from concertos.
  • Sight-reading will also be evaluated
  • Solos do not have to be memorized. Students may choose to perform without accompaniment.


Percussion

  • One snare-drum solo
  • One solo on timpani or mallet/keyboard instrument
  • Sight-reading will also be evaluated
  • Solos do not have to be memorized. Students may choose to perform without accompaniment.
     

ENTRANCE EXAMS

Undergraduate Entrance Exams

Students with keyboard experience are encouraged to prepare for the Piano Proficiency Exam, which is offered the first Friday of the semester. Successful performance on the Piano Proficiency Exam will exempt the student from some or all of the required Piano Proficiency courses. Piano majors/minors are exempt from taking the Piano Proficiency courses

Graduate Entrance Exams

All new graduate students must take the Graduate Entrance Exams before being accepted into the program. In order to be considered for graduate scholarships, these exams should be completed before April 1.

Start preparing for the Graduate Entrance Exams early. These exams have a significant impact on scholarships, time to completion, and final acceptance into the program:

Graduate Entrance Exam Scores


0%-39%

  
40%-69%		  
70%-79%		  
80%-84%		  
85%-100%
Impact: Student not admitted to the graduate program Student must take graduate remedial course(s) Scholarship: 10% tuition reduction Scholarship: 25% tuition reduction Scholarship: 50% tuition reduction
  • Students with keyboard experience are encouraged to prepare for the Piano Proficiency Exam, which is offered the first Friday of the semester. Successful performance on the Piano Proficiency Exam will exempt the student from some or all of the required Piano Proficiency courses. Piano majors/minors are exempt from taking the Piano Proficiency courses.