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Applications and Auditions

Click here to fill out an application for the NYU Summer Guitar Intensive.
Please send checks and fees to:

Dr. David Schroeder
Jazz Studies Director
NYU Steinhardt
35 West 4th St. suite 777
New York, NY 10012

See below for information on submitting audition materials.

AUDITIONS
Auditions are via VHS Video Tape or DVD only. No live auditions are available. You are required to perform 3 contrasting jazz standards demonstrating your ability to play the melody, improvise and comp. You must also prepare a written solo piece for the audition.

For an audition tape we just need you to play a head (melody of tune) and then solo on the changes to a jazz standard for a couple of chorus (repeats of the form). You could record the changes and then play over that as a backing track or you can use a Jamey Aebersold http://www.aebersold.com/Merchant2/merchant.mvc type of recording as a backing track.

You can get the standards from The Real Book

http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/0634060384/qid%3D1111604170/sr%3D11-1/ref%3Dsr%5F11%5F1/104-6088592-6729504

Some recommended standards would be

All the Things you Are
Alone Together
Autumn Leaves
Blue Bossa
Blues for Alice
Confirmation
I Love You
Invitation
Lady Bird
My Romance
Out of Nowhere
Solar
Stella By Starlight
Tune Up

1. You do not need to submit an application or your application fee with your audition materials

2. Send audition materials to:

Bruce Arnold
201 East 12th Street #102
New York, New York 10003 USA

Once you have been accepted into the Summer Guitar Intensive please send your deposit to:

Dr. David Schroeder
Jazz Studies Director
NYU Steinhardt
35 West 4th St. suite 777
New York, NY 10012

3. The process for your audition is as follows:

a. Send in audition materials.
b. If accepted you can reserve NYU dorm housing.
c. We process applications on a first come first serve basis so the sooner you submit the sooner you can organize your housing.
d. NYU will try to supply housing if a student is accepted after March 30th but they will not guarantee dorm housing.

4. Please click on the link below for the required written solo in PDF format:
Variation 3 - Audition Piece

5. You must be at least 17 years old to stay in the NYU Dorm. There are no age restrictions as far as attending the program. If you are underaged and wish to stay in the dorm then submit an application. If we have more than 5 underaged applicants NYU will higher a person to live in the dorms and escort underaged students to various activities. This is a New York State Law and it doesn't matter if we have parental approval for an unsupervised stay in the NYU Dorms. So far we have always had enough underaged students to allow underaged students to attend. If you are underaged you should explain in your application or with an additional letter that you understand that your application will only be approved once there are enough underaged applicants.

QUESTIONS

Please contact Bruce if you have questions about requirements, course content, acceptance into the program or any question not related directly to housing.