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Overseas Audition Information
Music Auditions Overseas
Audition requirements
For details of audition repertoires for each Principal Study, please visit our Music Audition and Application Procedure page.
How to apply
Find out how to apply and make your online application.
If you were intending to apply for a live overseas audition in Asia, you must apply online and should instead choose ‘recorded’ as your audition venue. The deadline for applications is 3 October 2022.
Asia Auditions
Due to travel uncertainty, it is with regret that we are unable to travel to our overseas venues in Asia for the 2023/24 application cycle, for study commencing September 2023.
If you were intending to apply for a live overseas audition in Asia, you must apply online and should instead choose ‘recorded’ as your audition venue.
The deadline for applications is 3 October 2022. Submitting a recorded audition will not impact on the result of your application.
We very much hope to travel to our Asia venues for the 2024/25 entry cycle.
New York
Live auditions in New York are due to be held on the below dates, subject to travel restrictions in place at the time. If we are subsequently unable to travel to the US for live auditions, New York candidates will be offered the opportunity to submit a recorded audition video instead.
New York is not available as an audition venue for all Music programmes. Please note, applicants for the following programmes/instruments will not be able to audition in New York:
- Timpani/Percussion
- Harpsichord
- Fortepiano
- Opera
- Electronic and Produced Music
- Chamber Music. Applicants interested in applying for Chamber Music should contact Jen Pitkin directly at music_applications@gsmd.ac.uk
- Composition. For composers applying to the BMus or Guildhall Artist programme selection is based on an initial evaluation of a submitted portfolio of compositions, following which applicants may then be called for interview.
- Music Therapy (all pathways)
Venue
The Dimenna Center for Classical Music
450 West 37th Street
New York, NY 10018
(Map)
Application Deadline
The deadline for applications for live auditions in New York is 1 December 2022.
Audition Dates
16-19 January 2023 (subject to travel restrictions)
Accompanists
Accompanists for overseas auditions are not provided. To hire a local accompanist, you may wish to contact:
Juilliard School
Alan D. Marks Center for Entrepreneurship and Career Services
Molly Skardon, Faculty Assistant
Email: careerservices@juilliard.edu
Tel: 212 799 5000 x 313
Center for Music Entrepreneurship
Email: CME@msmnyc.edu
Tel: 917 493 4502
If you would like advice on how to hire an accompanist, please contact Jen Pitkin at music_applications@gsmd.ac.uk.
Jazz applicants may attend an overseas audition, however a backing band or back line cannot be provided. If you wish to audition overseas for a jazz course, please bring your own instruments and musicians. A piano will be provided.
