Catawba Music: Scholarship Auditions

Music Scholarship Auditions

Register NOW for a scholarship audition! Auditions are also by special appointment with Music Faculty on available Fridays at Noon when in session. Contact the Welcome Center at (704) 637-4402 to schedule a special appointment.

Audition Application

The Scholarships:

Music scholarships are renewable for the full four years as the student maintains at least a 2.5 cumulative grade average and enrolls each semester in a Catawba College music ensemble appropriate to your area of primary musical emphasis as well as Applied Private Music study in your primary performing area.
Alternative service may be granted to students majoring in Music Business.

The Schedule for Open House Audition Days

Students with Music Interest need to be in the Williams Music Building, Room 103 (Rehearsal Hall) to check in by 10:00am.

10:00 General Overview Meeting: All students with music interest meet for a general overview of the music program concentrations and ensembles with music faculty.

NOW IS THE TIME YOU MUST ALERT FACULTY if you have multiple areas of musical interest (examples-such as band and choir, or choral singing and popular singing). Different auditions are held in different room locations and buildings. Students with multiple areas of musical interest will audition according to their pre-scheduled audition time in their primary area of interest first and then go to the other audition location. Audition locations will be announced during this session; locations can be found on the campus map provided in your packet at Admissions Check-in. Students without a pre-scheduled audition time must audition after all pre-scheduled auditions. (see * below)

10:15 Break-out Area Interest Meeting: All students with music interest meet with designated faculty within your music area of interest.

10:45 Theory Placement Exams: Theory placement exam for students with music interest are held in Williams Music Building Room 017 (basement).

This exam is just to determine which Music Theory course you would take first at Catawba. The results have no effect on your acceptance, even if you cannot read music.

10:45 Auditions: Students will audition according to their pre-scheduled time.

Any audition pre-scheduled between 10:45 and 11:30, should audition first, then take the exam.
(*) Students without a pre-scheduled time should take the 10:45 exam and will audition after pre-scheduled auditions (if necessary in alphabetical order).
- Individual Auditions for PRIMARY INTEREST OCCUR FIRST in the appropriate concentration location.
  Each individual audition and an interview will take approximately 10 to 15 minutes.
- Any ADDITIONAL Auditions will occur after the primary audition and exam.
  Additional auditions take approximately 10 minutes.

Auditioning students are encouraged to stay on campus Friday and/or Saturday nights of the Open House audition weekends. Please contact the Welcome Center 1-800-CATAWBA or bbking@catawba.edu if you would like to do so.

Video Auditions:

If you can't make it to campus, you can send a video to us on a DVD or as an e-mail attachment. You can even just send us the link to a video of you performing on YouTube or another public video site as an online audition. Please fill out the online form and follow the directions below regarding auditioning.

The Auditions:

The audition will include a performance presentation and a short interview before the appropriate Audition Faculty.

MUSIC BUSINESS:

If the applicant is a musician and has interest in the business side of music, you should use the same audition performance criteria under the Popular Music listing below.
If the applicant is not a musician and only interested in the business side of music, you will have an interview to determine your interests and background.

MUSIC EDUCATION, MUSIC PERFORMANCE, or SACRED MUSIC:
The applicant:

Vocalist should be able to perform 2-3 selections of contrasting styles (memorized, one foreign language preferred)
Pianist should perform 2 works from contrasting style periods (such as: Baroque, Classical, Romantic or 20th Century) and a short sight-reading selection.
All other instrumentalists should be prepared to play all major scales (arpeggios optional), 2 selections of contrasting styles and a short sight reading selection on each instrument.

POPULAR MUSIC:
The applicant:

Instrumentalists and singers should play/sing two or three songs that differ from one another in some way—type of chord progression, playing technique, tempo, style, or the like. Some or all can be originals.
Singers may bring karaoke tracks with you on a CD or USB thumb drive as accompaniment.
Songwriters, if you also write, we would like to hear at least one original song.