Details for winter 2025 auditions

Audition Format:

  • please come already warmed up
  • a few vocal exercises to check your range and vocal production
  • John will play a series of notes and have you sing them back to me
  • Prepare the 3 short excerpts listed below:

Audition times:  Monday, Jan. 6 2025, between 7-9pm

Audition venue:  Redwood Gardens Community Room, 2951 Derby St., Berkeley. Look for the awning with 2951 on it. There is lots of control of traffic by bollards in the area; you cannot just go up Derby St. from below. Let your GPS guide you.

Audition score excerpts:

1. Arroz Con Leche – Spanish Nursery Rhyme:

 

2.  Tomás Luis de Victoria:

 

 Recorded excerpts:

Arroz con leche »

Please sing the entire page.
Phrases 1 and 2: from 0:16-0:34
(extra line not in your music from 0:42-0:50)
Phrase 3: from 0:50-1:00

O Magnum Mysterium »

Please prepare only the following passages as per your voice part:Soprano: m35 to m55 downbeat.
Alto: pickup to m35 to m55 downbeat.
Tenor: pickup to m20 to m39
Bass: m40 to 48; and pickup to m 58 to the end.
For soprano, alto, and bass: please note the commas between repeated notes in at least one of your passages, and observe that slight lift between notes.
For all parts: be mindful of accidentals.
Please note: this video is sung a half step lower than our edition

Concert repertoire: https://choranova.org/upcoming-concerts/

First Rehearsal: Tuesday, January 7, 2025
Berkeley Fellowship of Unitarian Universalists, 1606 Bonita Ave. Berkeley

Concert: Saturday, March 15, 2025

If you have not filled out the audition request form already, click here: https://choranova.org/audition/