Undergraduate Preliminary Submission due December 1, 2024 by 11:59 PM (EST)
Please use the link at the bottom of this page to upload your prescreening materials. There is a $10 fee to use this service.
Clarinet applicants are also reminded to be aware of the high school requirements for admission to Rice University.
Required undergraduate prescreening repertoire is by video submission:
- Mozart Clarinet Concerto, First movement, Exposition only (beginning of solo until bar 133)
- Mendelssohn Scherzo from A Midsummer Night's Dream, measures 1 - 48
- Beethoven Symphony No. 6, First movement (measures 474-492) and Second movement (measures 68-78)
- Rimsky-Korsakov Capriccio Espagnol, Movement 1 (letter A - B, letter C for 21 bars)
- Brahms Symphony No. 3, First movement (bars 23-47), Second movement (beginning for 22 bars)
The prescreening repertoire must be played in a continuous unedited segment; any indication that there has been editing or that recording equipment was paused/stopped between selections will result in the disqualification of the application. All pieces should be played unaccompanied.
Required undergraduate live audition repertoire:
- The entire Mozart Clarinet Concerto, K. 622
- Two contrasting études from C. Rose: 32 Études
- A 20th-century piece of the applicant's choice
- Mendelssohn Scherzo from A Midsummer Night's Dream, measures 1-48
Applicants will also be expected to demonstrate sight-reading ability with material chosen by the instructor. No accompanist is needed or desired for the audition.
Auditions will be held on January 25, 2025.
If you are under the age of 18 at the time of your audition, we will need this form filled out.
