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- Applicants must have completed a Master of Music degree or equivalent in the field in which they are planning to apply prior to matriculating in the program. Those who hold a D.M.A. degree are not eligible to apply for the Yale D.M.A. program. Applicants must come to New Haven for an audition and examinations.
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Sep 9, 2024 · Applicants to any of the ISM programs (choral conducting, early music voice, or organ) must submit both the School of Music online application and the ISM online application. There is no additional application fee for the ISM application.
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Study, tuition-free, at the only graduate school of music in the Ivy League. The Yale School of Music awards the following graduate-professional degrees: Artist Diploma program, for performers holding a minimum of a high school diploma.
Below you will find answers to frequently asked questions about our degrees and programs, prescreening requirements, application, auditions, and more. If your questions are not answered here, please contact the School of Music’s Admissions Office.
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Prescreening Recording(audio or video; piano not required): 1. Applicants should prepare repertoire that will show their playing to the best advantage with the most variety possible both instrumentally and musically. 2. Repertoire should display a broad range of styles, genres, and technical abilities, with examples covering the full range of the i...
Prescreening Recording: 1. Applicants should submit scores and recordings of two to three recent works (no more than three will be considered; multi-movement works are suitable) which may be written for different genres or instrumentations and/or electronic media. 2. Composers should upload PDFs of scores, as well as recordings, videos, or external...
Prescreening Recording(video required): 1. Applicants should submit video excerpts that best showcase their orchestral-conducting skills. While no specific repertoire is required, the recording should include at least two contrasting musical styles of standard orchestral repertoire. 2. Submitted videos must have been filmed within the previous twel...
Prescreening Recording for M.M., M.M.A., and Certificate applicants(audio or video): 1. a work by J.S. Bach (prepare the larger movement—the Prelude, or Prelude and Fugue); arrangements of music by Scarlatti, Francesca Caccini, Élisabeth-Claude Jacquet de La Guerre; three movements from a Silvius Leopold Weiss suite; or others; 2. a work or two sho...
Prescreening Recording(audio or video): 1. a work by Bach or another Baroque composer including but not limited to Scarlatti (two sonatas of contrasting style) or Handel; 2. a solo work from the standard repertoire, including but not limited to Impromptu by Fauré, Suite by Britten, Légende by Renié, works by Parish Alvars, or Rhapsodieby Grandjany;...
Prescreening Recording: 1. any contrapuntal work by J.S. Bach; 2. two or more French dances from either the seventeenth or eighteenth century; and 3. applicant’s choice: in addition to the abovementioned repertoire, please choose a representative example from either the English Virginalist school, an early seventeenth-century Italian toccata, a son...
Prescreening Recording: Representative works from the major areas of organ literature: 1. a major work by Bach, 2. a Romantic work, and 3. a work by a composer born after 1900. Live Audition: 1. Organ applicants are strongly encouraged, though not required, to perform different works from those on the prescreening recording. However, works should b...
Prescreening Recording (unedited video): 1. a major work composed for either marimba or vibraphone, 2. one piece from Elliott Carter’s Eight Pieces for Four Timpani, 3. a solo piece for multiple percussion, and 4. an étude for snare drum. Live Audition: 1. a major work composed for either marimba or vibraphone (examples of acceptable works include,...
Prescreening Recording(audio or video; no concertos): 1. a Bach prelude and fugue or another original work by Bach (not a transcription); 2. a sonata or variations by Haydn, Mozart, Beethoven, or Schubert (for the prescreening recording, applicants should provide at least two contrasting movements; for a live audition, applicants should prepare an ...
Prescreening Recording(video preferred, with high-quality audio): 1. one movement of an unaccompanied Bach sonata or partita (A.D., M.M.A., and D.M.A. applicants must provide two movements); 2. first movement of a Mozart concerto; 3. any Paganini caprice; 4. one movement of a Classical (other than Mozart), Romantic, or twentieth-century concerto; a...
Admission to the B.A./M.M. program is through acceptance into Yale College as well as a separate, successful audition through the School of Music, either before matriculation into Yale College or during the third year of the undergraduate program.
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Yale University awards three graduate professional degrees through the School of Music: Master of Music (M.M.), Master of Musical Arts (M.M.A.), and Doctor of Musical Arts (D.M.A.). There is a Certificate in Performance (CERT) program and an Artist Diploma (A.D.) program for performers holding a minimum of a high school diploma, and a combined ...
