Classical Double Bass admission requirements for IGP studies - BA studies

  1. Scales
  2. Two etudes – one is chosen by the candidate, the other one handed out to the candidate one month prior to the entrance exam.
  3. One slow and one fast movement of a sonata.
  4. One slow and one fast movement of a concerto.
  5. Sight-reading of an orchestral part extract (chosen by the panel on the day of the examination)..

The sonata and the concerto should be of different style.

Recommended material:

Etude: Storch I, Hrabe I, Simandi, Streicher, Montag, etc.
Sonata: Fesch, Galliard, Vivaldi, Marcello, etc.
Concerto: Pichl, Capuzzi, Cimador, etc.

Career aptitude test:

The teacher aptitude test is done only in oral form. Consists of two parts:

  1. Talk of the auditioning student career plans attached application has already been prepared by auditioning and selection, based on a letter of motivation for teacher career choices.
  2. Based on a short few lines of text interpretation of a specific educational theme educational situation and express an opinion.

The aptitude test requires no special preparation ( from the literature curriculum )!

  1. During the test the student’s communication skills, personal motivation, awareness of speech and culture committee investigating the entrance exam.

The duration of the test: maximum 15 minutes