<p>Hi. I am new to CC. My son is auditioning next weekend at Oberlin as a piano performance major and wondered if anyone had any information regarding the format of the audition. We have looked at Oberlin's website info. Does anyone know the length of the audition time and if the audition will take place in a recital hall or professor's studio? </p>
<p>Thanks!</p>
<p>My son auditioned in a teacher’s large studio with the entire department in attendance (yes, I believe that there were nine adjudicators). It was a very nice piano, and up on a little staged area. He played through almost his entire repertoire (not the full sonata, but very big portions of movements 1 and 2), and either all or most of everything else. We were surprised that they wanted to hear so much, because that was not the case everywhere. Then there was sight reading after he played his repertoire, and some transposing I think.</p>
<p>The vocal auditioners are in the recital hall, or they were two years ago, so it seemed that there were a lot of different instrumental auditions going on in teacher studios.</p>
<p>Thank you for the response. Had your son contacted any of the professors in advance or had a sample lesson?</p>
<p>Yes. We had visited spring of junior year and S did have a lesson with a teacher he had been in contact with by email. I would recommend having lessons in advance, if at all possible.</p>
<p>S’s audition was in the teacher’s studio and was run more like a lesson than an audition–very comfortable and pleasant. He had not had a lesson or nor even visited Oberlin prior to the audition.</p>