For All Auditions, Regardless of Ensemble
Each Choral Audition Should Include:
- Vocal Audition Registration Form (Student to fill out info for Sponsoring Teacher to enter into Opus)
- Art Song or Aria that highlights voice quality and ability
- Give us the best continuous 2 minutes of your song! It’s okay if it’s an abrupt start and stop. You are allowed to trim your video at the beginning and the end in order to get your best excerpt, but the file you submit cannot be trimmed or spliced in the middle. It MUST be continuous. It doesn’t have to be 2 minutes exactly, but we recommend a video length between 1.5 – 2.5 minutes for the best uploading experience.
- Students may use an accompaniment but it is not required. A pre-recorded or computer-generated accompaniment is acceptable. Judges will not be adjudicating the quality of the accompaniment. While the accompaniment can be pre-recorded, it CANNOT be added after (see Digital Ethics Policy on page 2 of Audition Requirements).
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- Alma del Coré: Tonic chord and starting pitch are permitted at the start of the recorded audition file.
- Please note you MUST start on the designated pitch.
- All-State Scales for All Voices unaccompanied in key corresponding with student’s voice type – see below
- Students may use numbers, solfége, or neutral syllables. Humming is not permitted. Teacher may provide the starting pitch. Please note you MUST start on the designated pitch.
- No part of the audition needs to be memorized.
- Each recording above must be a separate file, and each file must be recorded in one continuous take. Your video file cannot be larger that 250 MB – if it is greater than 250 MB, you will need to compress it! See Guidance for Video File Auditions for more information.
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