Pre-screening Information
Performance Applicants
If you are applying to a performance area with a pre-screening requirement, you must submit videos to satisfy those requirements. Applicants who submit audio recordings of the pre-screening required pieces will not be considered or invited for a live audition.
Fall 2022 applicants: The following areas require pre-screening:
- Flute
- Piano
- Tuba
- Violin
- Voice
Fall 2022 applicants: The following areas require portfolios by December 1:
- Composition
- Electronic Music
- Music Education (graduate and certificate only)
- Music & Technology (including Audio Recording & Production applicants)
- Musicology (BXA only)
Music Education
MM and Certificate applicants should upload supporting documents via the application.
Carnegie Mellon accepts pre-screening materials as well as final recorded auditions and portfolios via the music application.
If you are auditioning by recording, you should choose final recorded audition/portfolio. If your program requires a pre-screening and you have chosen recorded audition as your audition location in the online application, you will not receive a pre-screening decision but rather one final decision.
Pre-screening or submission of additional application materials is required for applicants in the following areas:
Undergraduate |
Graduate |
Certificate Programs |
Artist Diploma (unavailable for Fall 2022 applications) |
| BXA Musicology | Composition | Audio Recording & Production | All Applicants |
| BXA Technology Concentration | Flute | Composition | |
| Composition | Music Education | Flute | |
| Flute | Music & Technology | Music Education | |
| Music & Technology | Piano | Piano | |
| Piano | Violin | Violin | |
| Tuba | Tuba | Tuba | |
| Violin | Voice | Voice | |
| Voice | |||