Please note: Auditions are for seniors only.
Audition Requirements for the Music Department
Auditions for music scholarships at Hendrix entail:
- Completing the online music scholarship application;
- Completing an in-person or video audition. Audition scheduling requests will be provided after you have submitted your scholarship application.
Additionally, please note the following requirements for video auditions.
- Students must submit their audition video via an unlisted YouTube link through the video audition form. This form will be provided after the submission of the student's co-curricular scholarship application.
- In addition to the audition video, a PDF of the music being performed must be submitted.
- Submitted videos should show the student from the front and should include the entire person in the picture, not just a close-up of their face or the instrument.
- If applicable, students should perform with a live accompanist rather than a pre-recorded piano track.
- Students should introduce the names of the pieces and composers they are performing.
- Only students who have completed their application for admission to Hendrix College will be allowed to audition.
- Complete a Teams meeting with music faculty. During their Teams meeting with faculty, applicants may be asked to sightread or perform scales, depending on the requirements of the specific area.
Audition Requirements for the Theatre Arts and Dance Department
Dance Auditions:
Audition scheduling requests will be provided after you have submitted your scholarship application. Specific questions about dance auditions or the dance department may be directed to Professor Brigitte Rogers at rogersb@hendrix.edu.
- The dancer will need to perform two contrasting pieces no longer than two minutes
each (total of four minutes of movement maximum) that demonstrate the dancer’s
creative, technical and performance strengths. Example: One modern
piece and one jazz piece, or one percussive modern piece and one lyrical modern
piece. Ballet pointe work is not required but is an option the dancer may use.
- Dancer will need to be prepared for an improvisational movement series given
by the Hendrix dance instructor.
- A short interview will follow the performance part of the audition.
Theatre Auditions (Performance and Technical)
Audition scheduling requests will be provided after you have submitted your scholarship application. Auditions are performed with a current Hendrix
student in the theatre department.
- The audition itself is a cold reading. You will not need to have anything prepared for the audition. Students may submit a résumé, but a portfolio is not required.