Students prepare an audition of five pieces, dealing with all aspects relevant to the audition: selecting pieces, writing new material (optional), arranging pieces, choosing other band members, rehearsals, organizing instrument set-up (where necessary), stage presentation. All skills, aims and contents of the various year 2 instrument subjects are relevant to the audition.

It is usually possible to combine auditions, with two or three students auditioning in one performance. Students interested in this can contact the educational office. The request will then be examined to determine whether it is organizationally feasible, especially if the appropriate committee members can be present at the same time.
The presentation part of the audition lasts roughly 20 minutes with one student, 25 minutes with two students and 30 minutes with more than two students.

Depends on the main subject; see the main subject module description.

Students independently organize all aspects relevant to performing the audition.

Examination and assessment

Audition for a panel of three to five teachers. As a rule, two of the panel members are teachers of the student's main subject (if this cannot be arranged, two or fewer panel members are teachers of the student's main subject). Students prepare five pieces varying in terms of style and tempo, which allow them to showcase their individual skills and musical identity.

Creativity, expression, improvisation, ensemble playing, interaction, harmonic possibilities, accompaniment, tonal balance, technique, sound, intonation, timing/tempo control, rhythm, reading skills, stylistic coherence, repertoire choice, set list, attitude, performance, preparation and (optional) arranging/composing.

The student has completed this module if being awarded a minimum grade of 5.5.

Examiners use an outline of relevant criteria to assess students, with the average grade being used as the final grade.
The examiners hand in their assessment forms 'face-down' to the chair, who then reviews whether the assessments are sufficiently similar, i.e., whether the graded evaluations diverge no more than two points. If there are no problems in this area, the chair subsequently fills out the complete chair form, which contains, in the verbal part, a summary of the reasoned evaluations provided by the several examiners. The average grade of the examiners' evaluations is used as the final grade.
In case the examiners' assessments diverge more than allowed, the chair initiates a panel discussion, and firstly asks the relevant examiners (whose grades diverge more than two points) to provide a further explanation. Subsequently the other examiners are allowed to participate in the discussion, and the chair eventually asks them to re-vote in consideration of the issues raised during the discussion. If the grades now fall within the permissible two-point range of divergence, the chair calculates the average grade of the re-vote and copies it to the chair form, under the heading of 're-vote', and this new average will serve as the final grade.
If the grades are still too dissimilar, the chair also uses the average of the re-vote as final grade, adding a note on the chair form indicating why (from their perspective) the examiners were unable to find common ground.

Audition Jazz & Pop 2

Form / content / level

Examination and assessment

Module summary