Advice on vocal auditions?

Singersmom07
Mon, 17 May 2010 21:05:17 +0000

Agree with musicamusica for Schirmer’s 24 Italian Art Songs for your Italian. English composers can come from Barber, Copland, Gordon (Ricky Ian), Ives, Quilter, Rorem, Bernstein, Britten, Musto, Bolcom, Argento, Finzi, Gurney, Warlock, Vaughan Williams. If you only need one foreign and one English that should give you a list. DD really liked Quilter for her auditions. She does a lot of Rorem now. Since you have not done any other language it may be hard to pick it up with correct diction. Does your chorus do any German or French that your teacher could help out with for a song from composers such as Schubert, Schumann, Brahms, Wolf, Strauss, Mahler, Duparc, Faure, Chausson, Debussy, Poulenc? Select contrasting styles or tempos.