KEYBOARD INSTRUMENTS
Piano
Applicants are required to perform one selection from each of the following 5 groups:

1)One etude or technical study of your choice
2)Any composition of Bach, Scarlatti or Handel
3)The first movement from any Sonata by Haydn, Mozart, Beethoven or Schubert (additional movements are welcome but not required)
4)One 19th century composition of your choice
5)One 20th century composition of your choice

Hi all,

Above mentioned are the requirements for doing a degree in music performance by National University of Singapore (NUS).

I had chosen the following audition pieces:

1) Etude in F, No 9 Op47 by S.heller
2) Prelude in C by Bach
3) Sonata (Divertimento) Hob:8 1st movement by Haydn
4) 1st Arabesque by Debussy
5) Four Rondos,Op 60 No2 Dance by Kabalevsky

Pls comment the above audition pieces that I had chosen, and for those who had played the pieces before, pls give comment & advice regarding the tempo, expression etc..

Thank you

I would choose one of the more difficult preludes for your Bach piece, other than that it looks good.

i think your progamme is okay... show great skills here...

Well the whole idea of being a musician is that you interpret the music in your own way. YOU play it how YOU want to - YOU decide what's right and what's wrong - that's why all concert soloists sound a little bit different.

This doesn't really apply in the Grades 1-8 but at degree level you definitely need to give the pieces something of yourself.

Out of your pieces, I've only done the Debussy - don't take it too fast, let the music speak. Balance the voices carefully and make the most of the dynamics. Just do what the composer tells you to, and for the rest of it you can decide. (Listen to a recording, decide what the piece reminds you of, and try to convey that in your performance)

QUOTE (cheeble @ Nov 27 2004, 03:15 PM)

Out of your pieces, I've only done the Debussy - don't take it too fast, let the music speak. Balance the voices carefully and make the most of the dynamics. Just do what the composer tells you to, and for the rest of it you can decide. (Listen to a recording, decide what the piece reminds you of, and try to convey that in your performance)

Hi Cheeble,

"don't take it too fast", do you want me to play slight slower?

I bought a cd & listen to this pianist called Paul O Haro playing. It was pretty fast & fluently. But my main problem was triplets against semiquaver.

I really love this piece very much.

Czaire W

Hi all,

Thanks for the feedback.