Application for the winter semester 2025/26

• Please record the video from a fixed perspective.
• The camera must not move. It is important that you are clearly recognisable.
• You can use both a smartphone and a professional camera for recording.
• Please make sure the sound is good.
• You are welcome to record with a microphone.
• At the beginning of the video, briefly introduce yourself and state your programme while looking into the camera.
• Please speak German.
• The respective pieces should be recorded unedited in one take. The pieces may not be edited.
• Each piece may be recorded individually, but you may cut between the individual pieces and the introduction.
• Please combine videos from different pieces into one video.
• Image and sound must be recorded simultaneously; the use of a separate audio recording device is permitted.
• The recordings must not be older than one year.
• The videos can be recorded with or without piano accompaniment
• Resolution: SD (standard definition, 720x576) or HD (high definition, 1920x1080)
• File format: mp4
• Duration of the video: maximum 10 minutes
• The video file will only be uploaded to your applicant portal.
• Please name the file: Surname, first name, applicant number
• It is not possible to submit the video file by e-mail!

Requirement for: bassoon, horn, clarinet, oboe, trombone, flute, trumpet, tuba. Please note the specific requirements for trumpet, flute, horn and percussion

•  Duration of the video 5 - 7 minutes
•  At least 2 pieces, movements or excerpts in different styles. Both slow and fast parts of the programme should be included.
•  Excerpts can be played, e.g. 1st movement of a concerto from the beginning to the recapitulation and a cadenza, if there is one.
• The movements are played from the beginning.
• If a time indication is given, the performance is sensibly cancelled after the desired duration has been reached.

Trumpet

Examples for the main work:

•  Joseph Haydn 1st movement complete with cadenza
•  or 1st movement J.N. Hummel
•  or 1st movement H. Tomasi with cadenza
•  or 1st movement A. Jolivet up to figure 19
•  or 1st movement V. Peskin with cadenza
•  Another piece from a different period of your choice

Transverse flute

• A Telemann fantasy of your choice, without the last movement. A further piece (excerpts are possible) from another period of your choice.

Horn

• A first movement up to the recapitulation from the following horn concertos by Mozart KV 417, KV 447 or KV 495.
• or KV 495. A further piece (excerpts are possible) from another period of your choice.

Percussio

• 1 piece for snare drum, 1 piece for timpani, 1 piece for marimba with 4 mallets

Requirement for: double bass, viola, violin, violoncello

• Duration of the video max. 10 minutes
• At least 2 pieces, movements or movement excerpts from different epochs. There should be one slow and one fast piece.

Requirement for: Opera, Master's programme only

•  Duration of the video max. 7 minutes
•  1 -2 arias of your choice from the current opera or operetta repertoire

Requirement for: Singing, Master's programme only

•  Duration of the video max. 10 minutes
•  1 aria and 1 song of your choice