The Choruses
Auditions Format/Schedule
Preliminary Auditions: This audition consists of scales, ear and pitch memory exercises, and sight-reading in order to evaluate voice, ear, and reading abilities. A prepared piece is not required. Preliminary auditions will be held Tuesday, September 3 through Friday, September 6 from 5:00pm-8:00pm in the basement of Memorial Hall.
All auditionees will be notified via email of their results. The result of your preliminary audition will take ONE of the following three forms:
Callbacks: You will attend a rehearsal with the choirs for which you are auditioning. You will be assigned a specific time slot for the Sunday, August 8 rehearsal. During this rehearsal, you will learn more about the individual groups and learn an audition excerpt to perform in a quartet with current choir members. The quartet audition will take place in the days following the rehearsal, and last 5-10 minutes. At the conclusion of the quartet audition, each auditionee will indicate ensemble preference. All auditionees will be notified of their audition result before study card day. Quartet audition dates are Monday, September 9 and Tuesday, September 10.
If you have any additional questions about the audition process, please email our student management team, and one of our student leaders will get back to you.
- Harvard Glee Club* (HGC): TTBB choir
- Radcliffe Choral Society* (RCS): SSAA choir
- Harvard-Radcliffe Collegium Musicum* (Collegium): SATB choir
- Harvard-Radcliffe Chorus (HRC): large SATB choir for the broader community
- Skills for Singing (SfS): a co-curricular 10-week course held each Fall, co-sponsored by the Office for the Arts. Click here to learn more about Skills for Singing.
Auditions Format/Schedule
Preliminary Auditions: This audition consists of scales, ear and pitch memory exercises, and sight-reading in order to evaluate voice, ear, and reading abilities. A prepared piece is not required. Preliminary auditions will be held Tuesday, September 3 through Friday, September 6 from 5:00pm-8:00pm in the basement of Memorial Hall.
All auditionees will be notified via email of their results. The result of your preliminary audition will take ONE of the following three forms:
- Sopranos and Altos will be accepted preliminarily into RCS and Collegium, and Tenors and Basses will be accepted preliminarily into HGC and Collegium. These auditionees will advance to callbacks/quartets.
- You will be accepted into the Harvard-Radcliffe Chorus. No callback is necessary.
- You will be accepted into Skills for Singing.
Callbacks: You will attend a rehearsal with the choirs for which you are auditioning. You will be assigned a specific time slot for the Sunday, August 8 rehearsal. During this rehearsal, you will learn more about the individual groups and learn an audition excerpt to perform in a quartet with current choir members. The quartet audition will take place in the days following the rehearsal, and last 5-10 minutes. At the conclusion of the quartet audition, each auditionee will indicate ensemble preference. All auditionees will be notified of their audition result before study card day. Quartet audition dates are Monday, September 9 and Tuesday, September 10.
If you have any additional questions about the audition process, please email our student management team, and one of our student leaders will get back to you.
