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 in multiple files. There is a $10 fee to use this service.
Percussion 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:
Snare Drum:
- Long Roll: Play a continuous buzz roll beginning at pp and crescendo to ff over a period of 30 seconds
- Delecluse: Étude No. 1 from "12 Études for Snare Drum" (beg. - downbeat of m. 36)
Marimba:
- Any 2 or 4 mallet movement from a Suite or Sonata by Bach for violin, cello, or lute (no repeats)
Timpani:
- Long Roll: play a continuous roll on the 29" drum tuned to an "A" over a period of 30 seconds. Begin at pp and crescendo to ff
- Beethoven: Symphony No. 9, Mvt. I (18 before S - End)
Required undergraduate live audition repertoire:
Two Marimba Solos: (One should be four-mallets and the other should be two-mallets)
- one contemporary solo
- one movement from any Suite or Sonata by Bach (e.g. violin, cello, lute)
Two Snare Drum Solos:
- one rudimental snare drum solo (e.g. Pratt)
- one concert snare drum solo (e.g. Delecluse, Lepak, Cirone, Peters)
One Timpani Solo: (e.g. Goodman, Hochrainer, Firth, Carroll)
Orchestral Excerpts
- one snare drum
- one timpani
- one xylophone
Auditions will be held on January 25, 26, February 9, or 15, 2025.
If you are under the age of 18 at the time of your audition, we will need this form filled out.
