<p>I'm currently a senior and am inching my way towards audition season! I would really like to major in voice with a concentration in Early Music. As of now, I'm trying to figure out which schools (national or international) would be more likely to accept a voice like mine that is well suited for historical performance. I'm also trying to figure out appropriate rep for college auditions. I know that I should have a piece from each era (early, common, and modern) that are stylistically different etc, etc. Any song suggestions from any of the eras (mostly common and modern though) would be greatly appreciated. I know Boston has a huge early music scene so Boston U is on my list and I'm also applying to Oberlin though I hear that their undergrad program is opera based(?). Anywho, any school or song suggestions would be great! </p>
<p>Oh, and just fyi, I do have a voice teacher and will be discussing this more with him. I'm just looking to have a list of schools and songs to present to him that I have come up with on my own that we can go through together and kind of weed out bad ones, and add new ones.</p>
<p>sorry for late reply–I’ve not read the boards lately, but they were a huge help to us. Both sons are in college and I guess I’m trying to compensate for them being home by reading about college adventures.</p>
<p>Anyway, about early music: My older son applied to and was accepted to Indiana–Jacobs–in early music. (He went to Northwestern, which does not have a big niche for early music but does have a small non-credit ,baroque ensemble and Newberry Consort is a fairly frequent artist in residence). The early-music people I know here in the NYC area went to Westminster Choir College (Princeton, NJ) and Peabody conservatory and Oberlin, as far as I can recal</p>
<p>I agree, now, that Oberlin is big for early music, as you have said. Unfortunately, an admissions counselor at one of the performing arts fairs we attended flat out told my son that opera was the focus for Oberlin voice students (so he did not apply), but singers I have met since then said that is not the case–there’s lots of non-opera early music at Oberlin. In any case, there’s some fantastic early opera (Handel and Monteverdi are two of my favorite opera composers, but I’m an early-music nut).</p>