The Frederick Chorale

The Frederick Chorale will be holding spring semester auditions on January 12, 2025.

Audition Process:

Once you have scheduled an audition, please download and complete our Audition Form and bring it with you to the audition.

1: Prepared solo: Perform a prepared solo of the candidate’s personal choice: It should be a song that the candidate knows well and can perform with ease. It may be performed with piano accompaniment or may be sung a cappella. The candidate must bring a printed score for any music that requires piano accompaniment. A piano accompanist will be provided. Objective: To determine the candidate’s level of musicianship on music of his/her own choosing.

2. Rhythmic sight singing: The candidate will be provided with printed music, without a melody, showing only common rhythms in a variety of meter signatures. Objective: To determine the candidate’s ability to accurately articulate rhythmic values at a given tempo.

3. Melodic sight singing: The candidate will be provided a printed melody in a major key that conforms to his/her vocal range. Objective: To determine the candidate’s ability to accurately articulate melodic intervals and rhythmic values at a given tempo.

4. Aural re?call: Repeating (singing back) a melodic phrase that is introduced on the piano, then repeated without piano accompaniment. Objective: Pitch acuity and accuracy of musical memory.

5. Harm?onic awareness: Repeating (singing back) all the pitches of a three-part chord that is played on the piano. Objective: To determine the candidate’s ability to hear and sing back particular pitches of a given harmony, which is fundamental to holding one’s own part in choral singing.

6. Quartet si?nging: The candidate will sing his/her part of a well-known hymn in a quartet setting involving the section leaders of The Frederick Chorale. Objective: To determine the candidate’s ability to hold his/her own part and to sing in a manner that blends well with the other voices of the quartet.

Email auditions@frederickchorale.org for more info.