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Offering exceptional training for performers and teachers.
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Pursuing a passion for music alongside other academic interests.
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Preparing tomorrow’s teachers and researchers.
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Building careers using music in service to and rehabilitation of others.
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Training socially responsible scholar-musicians of the highest caliber.
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Building skillsets for successful, competitive musicians.
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Providing valuable experience in repair and restoration situations.
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Preparing students to excel as a versatile, modern musician.
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Training musicians through outstanding instruction and mentorship.
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Developing students for a multitude of performing opportunities.
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Entrepreneurship Admissions
2025-2027 Housewright Emerging Ensemble Fellowship
Entrepreneurship
Key Admission Dates
Fall 2025
- Application Deadline January 6
- Audition (by invitation) February
- Decisions Released on or about March 15
Entrepreneurship
Application Requirements
1 Complete the Emerging Ensembles Fellowship Application
Complete the ensemble application. Ensembles should be prepared to provide:
- Ensemble biographical statement
- Ensemble website/social media and recording links
- Sample program
- Unofficial transcripts for each member of the ensemble
- One reference contact
Applications are open to ensembles of 3-8 members who have been active for at least one year.
2 Complete the audition
A number of ensembles will be selected for the live audition stage of the application. Auditions will be held in February.
3 Selection and Next Steps
On or about March 15, an ensemble will be selected as the recipients of the Fellowship. Selection is contingent upon successful admission and matriculation of each member to the Master of Arts in Music (MA) degree program.
Common Questions
Expand AllEveryone who completes the application process (including interview and/or audition, if required) is automatically considered for scholarships and assistantships, and no additional application is necessary. Only graduate students interested in auditioning for accompanying or group piano teaching assistantships are required to take an additional audition. Contact College of Music Admissions for further details.
Prescreenings are required for the following instruments/degree programs:
- MM or DM in Brass Performance
- MM or DM in String Performance (Violin only)
- MM or DM in Woodwind Performance
- MM or DM in Voice Performance
- MM or DM in Piano Performance
- MM in Piano Pedagogy
- MM or DM in Accompanying
- MM in Opera Coaching
Prescreening submissions are due by December 1 and results will be released by December 15. Applicants who are successful in this first round will be invited to campus for a full audition on one of the dates listed above. (Music Theatre will have a second round via Zoom, followed by a final round on campus).
An accompanist is provided, free of charge, for all voice and music theatre auditions on campus. Rehearsal time is not provided, however, and scores should not be submitted in advance. Please bring neat copies, in a book or organized in a binder, in the appropriate key(s). Students may bring their own accompanist to the audition if they wish.
Instrumental auditions will be unaccompanied.
Students are allowed a maximum of three audition attempts per instrument/voice, per degree level (bachelors, master’s, doctoral). Applicants are allowed one audition per application.