Admission to the Bachelor of Arts in Music requires a successful audition. Students wishing to pursue the concentration in Music must show proficiency in voice, piano, or both.
Admission Requirements
Students must meet the following requirements to be admitted to the music program:
- Successful admission to the University of Tennessee Southern
- A completed Audition Request form
- A letter of recommendation from your music instructor, submitted to the Program Coordinator (amart204@utsouthern.edu) or submitted through the Audition Request Form
- A completed audition on your primary instrument for the music faculty (see instrument-specific requirements below)
- A completed Music Theory Placement exam (the result of the placement exam has no bearing on admission to the degree program)
- Permission of the music faculty
How to Audition
On-Campus Auditions
To schedule your on-campus audition, contact the Program Coordinator at amart204@utsouthern.edu to request a date.
Video Auditions
Applicants for Fall admission may submit a video audition instead of an on-campus audition.
Should UT Southern need to cancel on-campus auditions, all applicants will be asked to submit a video audition.
Audition Requirements
Voice Primary
- Two contrasting songs or arias (one in English, one in a foreign language)
- The audition repertoire should be pieces that best represent the singer’s current level of vocal development.
- The selected Languages are English, Italian, German, French, Spanish, or Latin.
- All audition repertoire is to be sung from memory.
- Voice auditions must be presented with piano accompaniment. You may bring your accompanist for your on-campus audition or perform with a university-provided pianist. Recorded accompaniments are permitted for video auditions only.
Piano Primary
- Scales and Arpeggios (major and minor, two octaves, in 5 keys of your choice)
- Two contrasting solos from the standard piano repertoire (examples include J.S. Bach’s Sinfonias and Prelude and Fugues, movements of sonatas by W.A. Mozart and L. Beethoven, preludes and etudes by F. Chopin, or 20th/21stC works of equivalent difficulty)
- Pieces must be memorized.