Scales and Arpeggios (required for both entrance and scholarship auditions)

• For all string instruments
  • 2 octave major and minor scales, ascending and descending, up to and including 3 flats and sharps.
  • Scholarship applicants should strive for 3 octave major and minor scales when applicable.

Recommended Etudes and Solos

Literature choice for all auditions is not limited to the repertoire listed below, but should be at a comparable level.

* Suggested scholarship audition literature.

Violin

• Etudes
  • Wohlfahrt, Foundation Studies Book II
  • Mazas, Op 36 No. 1
  • Kayser Op. 20
  • Don't Op 37, 38
• Solos
  • Handel: Six Sonatas
  • Corelli: La Folia
  • Haydn: Concerto No. 2
  • Bach: Concerto No. 1 in a minor
  • Vivaldi: Concerto(s) in a minor or g minor
  • Any Mozart concerto

Viola

• Etudes
  • Wohlfahrt, Foundation Studies Book II
  • Mazas Op. 36, No. 1
  • Don't Op 37, 38
  • Mogill Scales System
• Solos
  • Handel/Casadesus Concerto in b minor, 1st movement
  • Glazunov: Elegy
  • Marais: Tema con Variazioni
  • J.S. Bach Cello Suite I, II - Preludes: arranged for Viola
  • J.S. Bach Cello Suite III, Bourreé I or II

Cello

• Etudes
  • Chosen from Popper 40 Etudes op. 73
• Solos
  • Bruch: Kol Nidrei
  • Haydn: CM Concerto (any movement)
  • Saint-Saëns: Concerto #1 (any movement)
  • Bach: two contrasting movements from any of the solo Suites

Bass

• Etudes
  • Any etude from Simandl Book I, Storch-Hrabe Book I, or Oxford Studies Book I.
• Solos - Two contrasting movements from any of the following
  • Capuzzi Concerto for Bass
    Dragonetti Concerto for Bass
    Marcello 6 Sonatas for Cello/Bass
    Vivaldi 6 Sonatas for Cello/Bass
    Other solo of applicants' choice

For more information on scholarships contact

Dr. Marion Judish, Scholarship Committee Chair
mjudish@stcloudstate.edu / (320) 308-3289