Music Scholarships and Audition Information

The Music Department at Morningside College offers significant scholarship funding for talented students of all majors who are involved in music performance.

Scholarships
Celebration of Excellence (COE) Talent Scholarships in Music are awarded to deserving admitted applicants. Awards up to $4,000 are available to both music majors and non-majors. This grant is awarded upon a successful audition during a student’s senior year in high school. The COE award is guaranteed for each year of the student’s tenure at Morningside College.

Music Participation Stipends
Music Participation Stipends are earned through involvement in music ensembles. (Pianists’ participation will be determined by the piano faculty.) Students must perform a Celebration of Excellence (COE) audition to be eligible.

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Auditions

Celebration of Excellence (COE) events are held during the spring semester each year. Contact Morningside College Admissions to schedule a COE audition.

Audition days for entrance in the fall of 2010 are:

1. January 22-23, 2010
2. February 5-6, 2010
3. February 19-20, 2010
4. March 12-13, 2010
5. By individual appointment

Audition Requirements

Brass or Woodwind:

• Two contrasting selections (from solo pieces or etudes – no band parts) one showing lyrical abilities, the other showing technical abilities. (These selections may come from the same composition.)
• A chromatic scale covering full range of the instrument
• All major scales
• Sight-reading (music majors only)

Percussion:
An excerpt (30-60 seconds) of a solo or etude on as many of the following instruments as possible:

• Snare Drum
• Timpani
• Keyboard (preferably marimba)
• Multiple percussion
• A chromatic scale on a keyboard instrument
• All major scales (keyboard instrument)
• 40 snare drum rudiments (music majors only)
• Sight-reading on snare drum and marimba (music majors only)

Piano:

• Two works, or movements of larger works, from different periods from the standard classical repertoire. (Preferably memorized.)
• Sight-reading (music majors only)

String:

• Two contrasting musical selections which demonstrate your strengths as an instrumentalist, including your technical ability, your tone, and your musicianship.
• All major scales (memorized)
• Sight-reading

Voice:

• One art song or aria in a foreign language (memorized)
• One art song in English (memorized)
• Sight-reading (music majors only)