piano audition into college

[destroyer_of_senses]

I'm hoping to attend a music college like manhattenville when i graduate but i'm not sure what to play for my audition. My teacher taught me all of the scales and theory i need to know but i need a really challenging piece to show what i can play to be accepted.

Any suggestions.?

thanks in advance

[karen]

a lot of times, they will have an audition list. I think there are certain pieces that are regularly played and accepted as audition pieces, those are easily accessible by looking around the web. However, if there are no restrictions, you might think about playing something that the judges won't be overly familiar with. I have found that works better because they are involved in listening to the piece as a new piece, and don't always pay as much attention to picky details as they would with something that every person who auditions will play.

[destroyer_of_senses]

alright i get what your saying thanks for the advice.
how difficult should thos piec be?
someting along the lines of Chopins Fantasie Impromptu OPT 66.?
or something more difficult

[DJ Ducksauce]

/opens Chopin book

Wow, that's a lot of notes. I'm sure if you memorized that you could do fine. Like the guy said above, find a list or something to see how difficult a piece they want. I haven't heard op. 66 though. Op 29 is hella fun to play though.

[destroyer_of_senses]

^^ nice avatar. alright thanks i havent heard the 29 but opt 66 is decently difficult but i wasnt sure if that was hard enough or if i should work on something even more difficult. Thanks

[theykilledkenny!]

How about one of the Transcendental Etudes, those sound pretty damn impressive to me....

[karen]

try looking into some liszt, like the Hungarian Rhapsodies
Also, Albeniz is great stuff, and really quite challenging!
Chopin is good too
They may require you to play something from each time period?? The most challenging to find is Baroque unless you don't mind playing Bach and can play it well.

[karen]

http://faculty.mville.edu/comberiatic/handbook/PDF%20Forms/auditions.html

you could check that out, if you haven't yet.

[destroyer_of_senses]

yea i have. its good because i memorize all the pieces i learn and i dont usually need music after playing it enough times but choosing the pieces that show that im better than the other schmucks auditioning is what im struggling with.

[karen]

Well, just remember that at an audition, they not only look for level of difficulty, but also musicality.

[karen]

oh, btw, if you run across something really impressive that is out of the ordinary, would you mind posting it on here? i'm in a bind trying to find music for my senior recital...

[evaworcim]

ravel's jeux d'eau

play that

[Scuba_Steve]

play this.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2Z2eioaHxk4&search=rachmaninov


or any rachmaninov you can handle, all of his music is brilliant

[destroyer_of_senses]

that video is removed. Any othher videos suggestions??

dont just post songs for an audition if you know any impressive ones for recitals , auditions, or just to show off please post videos , MIDI or names

thanks:chug:
mabe there should be a sticky for this

[karen]

ok, here's a site you should check out, you can get a free 7 day trial, i use it a lot for finding music and stuff
www.naxosmusiclibrary.com

go check out some gottschalk, hes got some insane stuff thats fun to play