Music Department
Voice Audition Requirements
Do your feelings, ideas, and inspiration naturally become rhythm, sound, and melody? Musicians at Idyllwild Arts refine their technique with the guidance of our world-renowned faculty, exploring this powerful medium for storytelling and cultural expression. Our pre-professional training curriculum instills the discipline, skills, and confidence that transform raw talent into endless opportunity.
Requirements
We encourage candidates for the Music major to send an online submission containing the specific requirements below. YouTube links are highly preferable whenever able. Live, on-campus auditions are possible, subject to departmental availability.
Classical Voice
Prepare two selections. The first must be one art song or aria from the Classical repertoire list below, illustrating the student’s range:
- A selection from the book “24 Italian Songs and Arias”
- A selection from the “First Book of Soprano, Alto, Tenor, Baritone/Bass”
- Händel
- Mozart
- Schubert
The second selection may be your choice of repertoire from Classical, Jazz, Musical Theatre, or Traditional Folk Song. We prefer a piece that is not in the contemporary popular genre. The audition video must include the piano part, and/or a backing track. Students wishing to audition on campus may bring their own pianist and/or backing track. We do not provide pianists for live auditions.
Contemporary Voice
Prepare 2-3 songs in English, each from contrasting styles that show the candidate’s veristility and range. Styles include but are not limited to: Pop, Jazz, Classical, Traditional Folk Music, etc. Music must be from memory, and should include works that include contrasting tempos, whether within a single work or in two separate selections.
For any questions, please contact admissionteam@idyllwildarts.org.
Submission Guidelines
Submissions should be uploaded to a file sharing/hosting site such as Google Drive, Dropbox, YouTube, Vimeo, etc. Copy and paste the link(s) to your submission(s) in your application in the relevant field. Please be sure to set your permissions to allow us to view your files.
For those submitting several works, please either combine them all into a single file (such as a PDF or Powerpoint) or add them all to a folder in your chosen file hosting site and submit the link to the folder rather than submitting links to each item individually.
Admission Policy
Idyllwild Arts Academy admits students of any sex, race, religion, color, national and ethnic origin, sexual orientation, or gender identification to all the rights, privileges, programs and activities generally accorded or made available to students at the school. It does not discriminate on the basis of sex, race, religion, color, national and ethnic origin, sexual orientation, or gender identification in administration of its educational policies, scholarship and financial planning, and athletic and other school-administered programs.