Faculty: A. Claudine Bigelow
Placement Video Guidelines
One or more pieces or excerpts that demonstrate technique and expression.
Time: Do not exceed 5 minutes
Institute provides violists an opportunity to participate in string quartets and daily master classes with peers from across the country. Many BYU students have commented how helpful it was to study music in the university setting as a high school student. It helped prepare them for the music program at BYU.
Players should know major and minor scales, five sharps through four flats, through fifth position; be able to sight-read syncopated rhythms; be familiar with uneven time signatures; and be familiar with these bowings: legato, detache, marcato (martele), uneven combinations of slurs, hooked bowings, spiccato, staccato (separate), portato, easy ricochet, flautato, slurred eighth notes, ponticello, and string-crossing slurs.
Performance opportunities will come at the end of the week in the final concerts. Rehearsals for these groups with intensive coaching from a string faculty member will take place daily.
All of these settings should help each violist gain greater experience and a better knowledge of his/her instrument.
