Music Composition
Music Composition offers degree programs at the undergraduate and graduate levels, as well as a minor. The program provides students the guidance they need to express their individuality through their music.
Overview
When you study tuba at The Hartt School, you will receive comprehensive musical training.
Admission and Audition Requirements
Please see specific instrument audition requirements by degree below. Learn more about the undergraduate or graduate application process, in-person audition dates, and deadlines.
Undergraduate
- One melodic étude (e.g., Bordogni, Concone, Rochut) or comparable work
- One technical étude (e.g., Kopprasch, Blazhevich, Arbans) or comparable work
- Two contrasting sections/movements from a standard solo work
- One or two contrasting orchestral excerpts
Please note: We have students who come to Hartt from across the United States and around the world. That is one of the things that makes a Hartt education so special. Some students are accepted and arrive having had extensive private study on their instruments. Others have had less experience (and perhaps less conventional training), but their natural abilities and great love of music allow them to make remarkable strides in a short period of time because of the expertise of our faculty.
Our requirements are sometimes quite specific to give applicants a sense of where they should be to enter a high-level conservatory environment. However, we encourage applicants to reach out to our faculty members to discuss audition repertoire. It may be that what you have prepared will suffice. Our primary goal is to identify potential, and if we feel that the potential is there, it is then our responsibility to provide each and every student with the tools to be successful.
If you would like to be in touch with a member of the faculty to discuss your audition repertoire, please write to harttadm@hartford.edu.
Graduate
- One Bordogni (or similar) melodic study
- One Kopprasch (or similar) technical etude
- Orchestral Excerpts: 4 or 5 contrasting standard excerpts
- Solo work(s): Hindemith, York, Vaughan Williams or similar
Our Faculty
Senior Artist Teacher of Tuba
Scott Mendoker is a member of the award-winning brass quintet - Philadelphia Brass. He has performed with the New York Philharmonic, Montreal Symphony, New York and Boston Pops, the New Jersey Symphony, the Broadway hit musical Ragtime, and recorded with the Metropolitan Opera and the Chicago Symphony Orchestra.
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