2020 Audition Results
| audition_results_2020.pdf |
Choir Auditions 2020 have moved online! If you are interested in one of the advanced ensembles (Chamber Choir, A Cappella Choir, or Motive A Cappella), you must submit your audition by Friday March 27th. Consideration for other choirs will remain open until the end of the school year.
Your online audition has three tasks to complete:
1. Audition Information Sheet: forms.gle/Zdj3RAWSnsHgj1HL7
2. Video submission. You may only submit one video. You can either complete all three parts below in one take, or combine multiple videos together into one using video editing software. Speak your name at the beginning of your video. Edit the video file name to display your name as well. Submit your video to Mr. Taylor. If you are already enrolled in choir at MVHS, you may choose to submit your video through Canvas. If you are not currently enrolled in MVHS Choir, you may submit your video through Google Drive, Dropbox, or YouTube and share it with bretttaylor@alpinedistrict.org.
- Part Independence: You will need two devices, one to play the audio example and another to video record you singing along. Download the file below. On the recording you will hear a simple melody. You may listen and sing along to it as many times as you would like until you feel prepared. Then practice singing your melody along with the harmony part provided on the piano. When ready, video record yourself singing along to the recording. You will first be asked to sing your melody by yourself, then while listening to the harmony part.
- Prepared Piece(s): Please sing 20-30 seconds of a solo song that shows off your best classical choral sound. You do not have to have it memorized. Please sing unaccompanied (no piano or backup tracks). If you interested in Motive A Cappella, you should also sing 20-30 seconds of a song that shows off your contemporary voice (pop, music theater, jazz).
- Sight Reading: Download the sight reading PDF below. You may practice it as much as you would like before recording. When you go to video record, do not start and stop in between sight reading lines. Follow the instructions on the PDF.
3. Music Knowledge Evaluation
- Download the music knowledge evaluation PDF below. This is an open personal test, meaning that you can use the internet or books to learn the concepts and answer the questions, but YOU MAY NOT TALK WITH ANYONE ABOUT THE SPECIFIC TEST QUESTIONS. Do not work together with other students. Do not ask your parents or friends for help. This is an open source test, but not an open person test. When you are ready, submit your evaluation responses through this google form: https://forms.gle/oVZ4xs9Q7uRQKNdd6
Your online audition has three tasks to complete:
1. Audition Information Sheet: forms.gle/Zdj3RAWSnsHgj1HL7
2. Video submission. You may only submit one video. You can either complete all three parts below in one take, or combine multiple videos together into one using video editing software. Speak your name at the beginning of your video. Edit the video file name to display your name as well. Submit your video to Mr. Taylor. If you are already enrolled in choir at MVHS, you may choose to submit your video through Canvas. If you are not currently enrolled in MVHS Choir, you may submit your video through Google Drive, Dropbox, or YouTube and share it with bretttaylor@alpinedistrict.org.
- Part Independence: You will need two devices, one to play the audio example and another to video record you singing along. Download the file below. On the recording you will hear a simple melody. You may listen and sing along to it as many times as you would like until you feel prepared. Then practice singing your melody along with the harmony part provided on the piano. When ready, video record yourself singing along to the recording. You will first be asked to sing your melody by yourself, then while listening to the harmony part.
- Prepared Piece(s): Please sing 20-30 seconds of a solo song that shows off your best classical choral sound. You do not have to have it memorized. Please sing unaccompanied (no piano or backup tracks). If you interested in Motive A Cappella, you should also sing 20-30 seconds of a song that shows off your contemporary voice (pop, music theater, jazz).
- Sight Reading: Download the sight reading PDF below. You may practice it as much as you would like before recording. When you go to video record, do not start and stop in between sight reading lines. Follow the instructions on the PDF.
3. Music Knowledge Evaluation
- Download the music knowledge evaluation PDF below. This is an open personal test, meaning that you can use the internet or books to learn the concepts and answer the questions, but YOU MAY NOT TALK WITH ANYONE ABOUT THE SPECIFIC TEST QUESTIONS. Do not work together with other students. Do not ask your parents or friends for help. This is an open source test, but not an open person test. When you are ready, submit your evaluation responses through this google form: https://forms.gle/oVZ4xs9Q7uRQKNdd6
Part Independence
| part_independence.m4a |
Sight Reading
| sight_reading_2020.pdf |
Music Knowledge Evaluation
| music_knowledge_evaluation_2020.pdf |
Instructions to current 9th Graders
If you are already in choir at your junior high school and would like to continue singing in high school, there are a few options for you.
If you are not in choir as a 9th grader, then you may audition for either Man Choir or Con Brio. Additionally, you may register for Concert Choir without an audition.
Since the audition happens after class registration, the best course of action is to sign up for the choir you wish to be in, and be prepared with an alternate after audition results are posted.
- Concert Choir – This requires no audition. You can just sign up! This choir rehearses during B7 semester 1 only.
- Man Choir / Con Brio – These choirs require a recommendation from your junior high choir director. Just let them know that you are interested and they will then consider you for their list of recommendations. Man Choir rehearses A4 and Con Brio A3.
If you are not in choir as a 9th grader, then you may audition for either Man Choir or Con Brio. Additionally, you may register for Concert Choir without an audition.
Since the audition happens after class registration, the best course of action is to sign up for the choir you wish to be in, and be prepared with an alternate after audition results are posted.
Call-Back Information
Chamber Choir - drive.google.com/drive/folders/1I_vbj8eTGnWC4kplsfg-lV5IUA4As_J3?usp=sharing
Motive A Cappella - https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/1yU50DD8V_0Mphk1ZSFKzynFHxd0mO-V5?usp=sharing
Motive A Cappella - https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/1yU50DD8V_0Mphk1ZSFKzynFHxd0mO-V5?usp=sharing
| chamber_choir_call_back_information_2020.pdf |
| motive_a_cappella_call_back_information_2020.pdf |
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