Vocals

Faculty

Paulien van Schaik
Anne Serierse

Major

Study activities for your major will consist of: 
• individual and group lessons
• independent study
• concerts, projects and ensemble activities
• lessons and masterclasses from your personal budget

Assessment

You will perform in the following recitals and exams in order to complete work on your major:
• recital 1 at the end of the first year of the Master (45 minutes)
• final recital at the end of the second year of the Master (60 minutes)

Audition

• • To take part in the audition you first have to apply via www.studielink.nl
  • The preselection will take place online
  • After the preselection only selected candidates will proceed to the live audition (for candidates living in the Netherlands or Belgium) or to the online interview (for candidates living in other countries)
  • You can upload your material for the online preselection on your personal admission page with a maximum of 15 minutes
  • You will be asked to submit a personal development plan, in which you outline your plans for the upcoming yeasrs of study and a CV
  • Duration of the live audition is 15/20 minutes.
  • In the preselection and the live audition program should include:

  a free choice of repertoire. You can choose from a variety of music styles at least containing some standard Jazz or contemporary jazz material. If you have written some original material, please include that in your programme.

• In the audition, you will be assessed on your ability to demonstrate rhythmical, melodic and harmonic insights, as well as phrasing and interpretation.We may also do some vocal exercises to check your range and see if there are no technical obstrucitons to work intensively with the voice.We are interested to see how you arrange and interpret covers or standards, and see your musical personaliy / identity shining through.

• For the live audition bring your own band or accompanist.
• For preselection the video needs to be recorded 'live' with a band or at least 1 accompanist