Piano performance students study with Stephanie Cheng or Steven Mayer, award-winning artist-teachers who enjoy international reputations as performers and pedagogues. Students enrolled in piano pedagogy will study with Emily Book McGree, a distinguished pianist, educator, clinician and teacher trainer.
We foster a vibrant collaborative music setting, including participation in duets, small chamber groups, and large ensembles. Students enjoy state-of-the-art facilities in the Newman Center for the Performing Arts, and Lamont holds the distinction of an All-Steinway School with 85 acoustic pianos from the Steinway Piano Company.
Repertoire Requirements
Undergraduate (BM and BA)
Twenty minutes of memorized repertoire to include three or four pieces, each from a different period:
- Baroque (e.g., two-part invention by Bach)
- Classical (e.g., Mozart, Haydn, Beethoven Sonata – one movement)
- Romantic (e.g., Schubert, Schumann, Chopin, Brahms)
- Twentieth Century (e.g., Debussy, Ravel, Schonberg, Bartok, Hindemith)
Undergraduate (Minor)
- Ten minutes of repertoire consisting of two or more classical-genre pieces or movements
- All major scales, four octaves
- Memorization is not required
Graduate (MM and certificate in performance)
Applicants should prepare a solo recital program of at least 45 minutes of repertoire. Prelude & Fugue and sonata should be complete; concertos are not accepted. Music should be memorized and selections should include:
- A major work from the Baroque period (e.g., Bach, Scarlatti, Rameau, etc.)
- A major work from the Classical period (e.g., Beethoven, Haydn, Mozart, etc.)
- A major work from the Romantic period (e.g., Chopin, Schubert, Liszt, Brahms, Schumann, etc.)
- A major work from the 20th century (e.g., Bartok, Hindemith, Schonberg, Copland, Barber, etc.)
Pedagogy Applicants
In addition to the graduate audition requirements above, applicants must submit/complete the following:
- A research paper related to music education/pedagogy (as per undergraduate work),
- A 20-minute video of teaching, and
- An interview with the piano pedagogy faculty.
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