Ensemble Auditions

Orchestra strings placement and seating auditions for 2025-2026 will take place LIVE on August 25-27.

Click on the link below to find documents with instructions, excerpt links, and a link to sign up for an audition. Please read everything vary carefully, including specific dates and times for auditions.

Audition Guidelines
Audition Time Sign-up
Violin Excerpts 
Viola Excerpts 
Cello Excerpts 
Bass Excerpts 

Wind and percussion players get their audition information from the Band Department (HMU 101) or directly from your applied professor.

The FSU Chamber Choir, Michael Hanawalt, director, is accepting auditions for the 2022-23 academic year!

We have an exciting year planned, including a performance of Handel’s Messiah in the fall and Craig Hella Johnson’s Considering Matthew Shepherd in the spring. The myriad solos in both works will be selected from the choir.

Rehearsal times are MWF 12:20-1:10.  The following is a list of performance dates for the 2022-23 academic year:

Both in-person and pre-recorded auditions are being accepted at this time.

In-person auditionees should be prepared to:

• Sing a brief ascending/descending vocalise lead by Dr. Hanawalt
• Prepare an art song/aria of your choosing. An accompanist will be provided; please provide them with a legible score

For pre-recorded auditions, singers should upload the following materials to YouTube for the audition and submit the links when requested in the form below:

1. An ASCENDING vocalise of your choosing, starting in your middle register and repeated by increasing half step until you reach the top of your range.  This vocalise should be done TWICE: once at mf dynamic and once at a p dynamic
2. A DESCENDING vocalise of your choosing, starting in your middle register and repeated by decreasing half step until you reach the bottom of your range. This vocalise need only to be done ONCE, at a mf dynamic.
3. An art song or aria of your choosing.  This may be accompanied or sung a cappella and may be taken from a previous performance/recital.

All auditionees, both remote and in-person, should fill out the form available here.

University Singers 2026-27 Audition Information

Deadline for Audition Submissions

April 26, 11:59 p.m.

Practice Sessions

•  April 17, 11:15 a.m. (KMU240)
•  April 21 2:30 p.m. (KMU 240)
•  April 23, 2:30 p.m. (KMU 240)
•  April 24, 2:30 p.m. (KMU 240)

Callbacks

Tuesday, April 28 at 4:00 p.m. (KMU 240)

Expectations

By auditioning for University Singers, you are agreeing to participate in the following:

• • Class meeting time: 2:30-3:20 p.m. MTRF
  • Rehearsal Retreat September 25-26 (begins at 5 p.m. on Friday and concludes at noon on Saturday on St. George Island)
  • Fall Concert, (November 8)
  • Seasonal Celebration (December 6)
  • Spring Break Tour (March 14-21)
  • Spring Concert (April 9)

Please use the link below to submit your audition materials, which include audio recordings of you performing an accompanied prepared solo and an audio recording of you performing your voice part of “A Silence Haunts Me” from Jake Runestad (using piano track “audition accompaniment” provided below).  

Audition Submission

Please upload your audition materials and complete the Audition Submission Form.

Practice Materials

I recommend listening to Capital University Chapel Choir performing “A Silence Haunts Me” (excerpt begins at 4:45) in preparation. Sing bars 43 to 77 (PDF of excerpt). Use this recorded accompaniment for your audition submission.