Graduate Audition Requirements- Strings
Please scroll down for VIOLIN, VIOLA, CELLO and DOUBLE BASS
Information on the Graduate String Quartet TA program =>
Graduate Violin
Professor Elizabeth Chang, echang@music.umass.edu, (413) 545-0023
Link to Violin Studio webpage
- One movement from a major violin concerto
- Two contrasting movements from the unaccompanied Bach Sonatas and Partitas (a dance movement and its double constitute one movement)
- An etude or caprice by Paganini, Wieniawski, Gavinies, Rode or Dont Op. 35
Graduate Viola
Ronald Gorevic, instructor.
Questions, please contact: musicadmissions@umass.edu
Viola Studio website
- Two contrasting movements from the Bach Cello Suites
- One movement from a major concerto, such as Walton, Bartok, or Hindemith
- An etude by Hoffmeister, Kreutzer or Fuchs
Graduate Cello
Professor Edward Arron, earron@umass.edu
- The first movement of a major concerto
- Two movements of a Bach Suite for Solo Cello
- An etude by Popper or Piatti
Graduate Double Bass
Professor Salvatore Macchia, smacchia@music.umass.edu
- One movement of a major concerto
- A twentieth century unaccompanied solo piece
- Several contrasting orchestral excerpts
