Piano Performance - Trinity Laban

Piano Audition Requirements: BMus & ISP Foundation (Classical Performance)

The audition will take the following format:

DURING THE AUDITION	Applicants must prepare three pieces showing contrasting styles and techniques, written for your principal study instruments, and lasting no longer than 15 minutes in total. At least one of these pieces should be played from memory. The panel reserve the right to only hear 10 minutes of your performance. Applicants may be required take a short sight-reading test and/or improvisation test
DURING THE AUDITION DAY	Applicants must sit a 20-minute musicianship test, designed to test their aural skills. Please note that past papers are not available.

Postgraduate Level programmes

The audition will last for 30 minutes. The table below provides full information about the audition process.

DURING THE AUDITION	For piano auditions Applicants must prepare a contrasting and suitably demanding programme, including an Etude from memory, of no more than 45 minutes in total. The panel reserves the right to hear only 20 minutes of your programme. Applicants will have an academic interview, centring on performance issues raised by the audition programme. Applicants may be required to take a sight-reading and/or improvisation test. For piano accompaniment auditions The panel would prefer to hear chamber music for piano with other instruments (duos, trios, quartets etc.) and also piano accompanying a singer. If you don’t have partners we can provide a singer for you, please confirm your requirement with us well in advance. The panel would hear 15-20 minutes of a much longer programme. If you are applying for the piano accompaniment programme you would not need to present a solo piece. You would need to prepare up to three contrasting pieces for your audition.
DURING THE AUDITION DAY	All Masters applicants will be required to take a 30-minute written test, to include a critical commentary on a piece of prose. Please note past papers are not available. Alongside this MA and MMus 1 Year Intensive applicants are also required to bring with them to the auditions a recent (within the last 12 months) piece of academic writing (2,000-5,000 words) with appropriate referencing on any music or music-related topic.

DURING THE AUDITION

For piano auditions

Applicants must prepare a contrasting and suitably demanding programme, including an Etude from memory, of no more than 45 minutes in total.
The panel reserves the right to hear only 20 minutes of your programme.
Applicants will have an academic interview, centring on performance issues raised by the audition programme.
Applicants may be required to take a sight-reading and/or improvisation test.

For piano accompaniment auditions

The panel would prefer to hear chamber music for piano with other instruments (duos, trios, quartets etc.) and also piano accompanying a singer. If you don’t have partners we can provide a singer for you, please confirm your requirement with us well in advance. The panel would hear 15-20 minutes of a much longer programme. If you are applying for the piano accompaniment programme you would not need to present a solo piece. You would need to prepare up to three contrasting pieces for your audition.

DURING THE AUDITION DAY

All Masters applicants will be required to take a 30-minute written test, to include a critical commentary on a piece of prose. Please note past papers are not available. Alongside this MA and MMus 1 Year Intensive applicants are also required to bring with them to the auditions a recent (within the last 12 months) piece of academic writing (2,000-5,000 words) with appropriate referencing on any music or music-related topic.