Specific admission criteria for Accordion
In addition to the general admission criteria, there are also specific instrumental requirements. During the audition, you will perform at least one étude and a recital piece, unless indicated otherwise. The pieces mentioned are merely examples. You can also opt for other works of a similar level.
The audition can be performed on any of the usual types of manual accordion:
- a piano accordion;
- a button accordion (B or C system).
We recommend that you are already playing on a free bass system instrument.
Your performing skills and musicality will be tested on the basis of:
Études such as:
- Siegfried Borris: Acht Studien für Akkordeon
- James Wilson: Fourteen Rhythmic Studies
- Helmut Quakernack: More Finger Jogging
- Various composers: Gradus ad Parnassum
Polyphony such as:
- Torbjörn Lundquist: Neun zweistimmige Inventionen
- Johann Sebastian Bach: 15 zweistimmige Inventionen (the Urtext edition)
- Wolfgang Jacobi: 10 Polyphone Stücke nach Spanischen Volksliedern
- Horst-Peter Hesse: Polyphones Spielbuch, Volume II (Baroque/arrangements)
- Mogens Ellegaard: Polyphones Spielbuch, Volume IV (Baroque/arrangements)
Recital pieces such as:
- Torbjörn Lundquist: Miscellaneous
- Torbjörn Lundquist: Microscope
- Béla Bartók: Mikrokosmos, Parts 2 and 3
- Astor Piazzolla, arr. H.G. Kölz: Akkordeon Pur-serie