• Video recording of a performance or rehearsal that displays your conducting proficiency
• Résumé/Curriculum Vitae
• Repertoire list, including:
  • Works conducted in performance, including date and group
  • Works prepared, including when and for whom
  • Works assisted, including when and for whom
  • Works studied

A limited number of applicants will be invited to a personal audition to conduct one of the Jacobs School of Music orchestras. The audition and interview will not occur during any of the regularly scheduled audition weekends. Invited applicants will be informed of a date in writing.

Invited applicants should prepare the following pieces for the personal conducting audition:

• Beethoven - Symphony No. 2, Mvt. 1
• Tchaikovsky - Romeo and Juliet(complete)
• Copland - Appalachian Spring (rehearsal #6-16 and #35-51)
• Puccini - La Bohème, Act I, Rodolfo's aria "Che gelida manina"
• Mozart - Marriage of Figaro, The Count’s Aria

All pieces are to be learned in their entirety.