Graduate Admissions & Support
Graduate Admissions
All applicants for a graduate degree in music must complete an application for the University of North Dakota School of Graduate Studies.
The priority deadline for all graduate applicants is March 1st. This includes submission of all required materials, including transcripts, test scores, and letters of recommendation.
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Financial Support
UND Music offers financial support to excellent applicants in the form of Graduate Assistantships and Tuition Waivers. Applicants who meet the priority deadline of March 1st will automatically be considered for these opportunities.
Graduate Assistantships
UND Music has a number of assistantships available for resident graduate students. Assistantship assignments are made by the Chair of the Department of Music in consultation with relevant members of the music faculty. There are quarter-time and half-time assistantships available. Graduate Assistants are compensated with a stipend and may also be awarded a tuition waiver as part of their financial package.
Tuition Waivers
Many graduate students at UND Music are granted full tuition waivers to support their studies.
Audition Requirements
- 3-4 contrasting works from different eras
- 3 orchestral excerpts may be substituted for one work
Please contact Dr. Lisa Bost-Sandberg with questions regarding audition requirements.
- Two contrasting movements of a major concerto or sonata
- A movement or solo piece from a contrasting era
Please contact Dr. Scott Sandberg with questions regarding audition requirements.
- Two contrasting movements of a major concerto or sonata
- A movement or solo piece of a contrasting style
Please contact Dr. Scott Sandberg with questions regarding audition requirements.
- Two contrasting movements of a standard concerto or sonata
- Contrasting orchestral excerpts or an etude
Please contact Dr. Cory Driscoll with questions regarding audition requirements.
- Two contrasting movements of a standard concerto or sonata
- Contrasting orchestral excerpts or an etude
- Two movements from different major works in the trombone concerto/sonata repertoire
- Three major orchestral excerpts
- Major and minor scales
Please contact Dr. Joel Pugh with questions regarding audition requirements.
- Two movements from different major works in the euphonium concerto/sonata repertoire
- Three major wind band excerpts
- Major and minor scales
Please contact Dr. Joel Pugh with questions regarding audition requirements.
- Two movements from different major works in the tuba concerto/sonata repertoire
- Three major orchestral excerpts
- Major and minor scales
Please contact Dr. Joel Pugh with questions regarding audition requirements.
- One four-mallet marimba solo
- One orchestral snare etude
- One rudimental snare etude
- One timpani etude
Please contact Dr. Brian Pfeifer with questions regarding audition requirements.
Piano Performance Specialization
- One movement of a major classical sonata
- One movement of major piece from Romantic period such as sonata, OR
- A major character piece not shorter than 5 minutes, OR
- One etude by Chopin, Liszt, Rachmaninoff, Scriabin, Debussy or Prokofiev
Collaborative Piano Specialization
- The first movement of a sonata for strings by a major composer
- Two classical songs in contrasting styles
Please contact Dr. Nariaki Sugiura with questions regarding audition requirements.
- One movement of a major concerto
- Two contrasting movements of sonata or partita by J. S. Bach
Please contact Dr. Alejandro Drago with questions regarding audition requirements.
- One movement of a major concerto
- Two contrasting movements of a violin sonata, partita OR cello suite by J. S. Bach
Please contact Dr. Alejandro Drago with questions regarding audition requirements.
- One movement of a major concerto
- One movement from a cello suite by J. S. Bach
- The first movement of a major sonata OR a show piece OR an etude
Please contact Dr. Simona Barbu with questions regarding audition requirements.
- Two contrasting movement of a major concerto or sonata
- One movement of a work from a contrasting style period OR an etude
Please contact Dr. Simona Barbu with questions regarding audition requirements.
Vocal Performance Specialization
- A minimum of 12 minutes of repertoire sung in English, French, German, and Italian
Vocal Pedagogy Specialization
- A minimum of 12 minutes of repertoire sung in English, French, German, and Italian
Please contact Dr. Anne Christopherson and/or Dr. Justin Montigne with questions regarding audition requirements.
Contact

- simona.barbu@UND.edu
- 701.777.2828
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Hughes Fine Arts Center Room 262
Grand Forks ND 58202-7125