This information pertains to the Bachelor of Arts in Music Education, Music Therapy, Music Industry and Breadth Studies, and the Bachelor of Music in Performance, Composition and Media Composition. Your audition material should reflect your best musical and technical proficiency.
Students wishing to audition for entrance into the CSUN Music program must submit an audition application by the specified deadline. Students auditioning must be in the process of admission to the University for the semester they are auditioning for.
The CSUN Music Department does not offer a Minor in Music.
Those students who already hold a master's degree in music will not be able to receive a second masters from CSUN at this time.
For information pertaining to the Masters of Music degrees, please visit the page for our graduate degrees.
Fall 2021 Entrance Auditions
Please see your major option below for information on auditions. Jazz Studies is accepting auditions by video submission only. Most of the other areas will give the student an option of selecting a Zoom audition date or submitting a video by the video submission deadline. You must fill out a music department audition application AFTER completing your CSUN application. The music audition form will allow you to select your submission date and will also allow you to apply for a music department scholarship. To schedule a live Zoom audition, audition applications are due JANUARY 15, 2021.
JAZZ PERFORMANCE
Audition videos must be submitted by January 15, 2021. Those students who pass the performance round will be scheduled for zoom interviews during the month of February.
CLASSICAL PERFORMANCE & COMPOSITION (BM & MM)
(Note: The classical percussion area will only be doing auditions via video submission.)
February 6 Live Zoom Audition
February 13 Live Zoom Audition
February 13 Deadline for those who choose to submit a video audition
March 6 Live Zoom Audition
BA - MUSIC EDUCATION, MUSIC THERAPY, MUSIC INDUSTRY, BM COMMERCIAL & MEDIA WRITING
February 6 Live Zoom Audition (all majors except jazz and percussion)
February 13 Live Zoom Audition (all majors except jazz and percussion)
February 13 Deadline for those who choose to submit a video audition
In addition to the dates listed above, some areas will interview select candidates as part of the audition process. In most cases these interviews will occur within two weeks of the audition.
MASTER'S IN MUSIC INDUSTRY ADMINISTRATION
Graduate students interested in the master’s program Music Industry Administration should go to the following link:
https://tsengcollege.csun.edu/programs/MIA
MM CONDUCTING, MM COLLABORATIVE PIANO & MM COMPOSITION APPLICANTS
You will need to contact the appropriate faculty member for specific audition requirements and procedures once the department is accepting new applications; your audition date should be 'arranged' with:
Band/Wind Ensemble Conducting, Dr. Lawrence Stoffel
Choral Conducting, Dr. Katherine Baker
Orchestral Conducting, Dr. John Roscigno
Collaborative Piano, Tali Tadmor
Composition, Dr. Liviu Marinescu
*NOTE: Applicants for the Bachelor of Arts and Bachelor of Music programs must first apply to the university for the Fall 2021 semester October 1-December 4, 2020 through https://www2.calstate.edu/apply
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Placement Examinations for Spring 2021
Undergraduate Placement Tests:
Musicianship & Theory
This test will be administered online in December. Students will be contacted via email with the exams - these exams are NOT required if you wish to start at level one in musicianship and theory. For questions about test administration, please contact Nicole Hovland: nicole.hovland@csun.edu. For questions regarding exam material, please contact A.J. McCaffrey - arthur.mccaffrey@csun.edu.
Keyboard
Students will receive a keyboard questionnaire to fill out by early December. This questionnaire will help us to place you. In addition, any junior college transcripts will also be used in the placement process.
Contact: Gayle Kowalchyk - gayle.kowalchyk@csun.edu