Keyboard Auditions


  • 200 Keyboard major
  • 100 Non-major
  • Keyboard as a secondary instrument
  • Class piano



See the main Auditions page for important information about all auditions. Keyboard auditions must be performed on piano and demonstrate basic skills and understanding of music notation, including:

  1. All major and minor scales - two octaves, hands together.
  2. All major and minor arpeggios - two octaves, hands together.
  3. Triads - all major and minor, root position and inversions, hands together, blocked and broken.
  4. V7 cadence - all major keys.
  5. I IV I V7 I - root position and inversions, all major keys, root in left hand, chords in right hand
  6. Two selections from early advanced repertoire, such as ISMTA Achievement in Music (Levels IX and above). Selections do not need to be memorized.