Notes on Audition and Interview

Performance

1. Applicants are required to prepare three contrasting pieces, each about 5 minutes long.
2. Applicants are required to bring their own instruments to the audition, except for the piano.
3. Applicants are required to prepare two original copies of the music scores to the interview.
4. Please bring your own accompanist (if required).

Conducting

1. Applicants should prepare two 30-minute videos of you rehearsing and conducting two contrasting pieces or excerpts, in USB or DVD format to the audition.
2. Applicants are required to include a short self-introduction before the performance in the video.
3. Applicants are required to have their faces shown in all the videos.
4. Each 30-minute video should start from the beginning with no cuts or other editing.

* Conducting applicants may include conducting performances with orchestras or small chamber groups.

Composition

1. Applicants are required to prepare two hard copies of the submitted three pieces to the interview.
2. Applicants are required to prepare an audio-recording of the submitted works, to be played during the interview.

Other Music-related Studies

1. Applicants are required to prepare two hard copies of three submitted essays / theses to the interview.
2. Applicants are required to prepare notes on the new research topic to the interview.

Contact Us

Bernard van Zuiden Music Fund

The Hong Kong Philharmonic Society Ltd,
Level 8, Administration Building, 
Hong Kong Cultural Centre, 
10 Salisbury Road, Tsimshatsui, Kowloon, Hong Kong

Tel : 2312 6103

Fax : 2721 5443

Email : education@hkphil.org

Office hours (Mon - Fri) : 10:00am - 12:30pm; 2:00pm - 6:00pm, excluding Public Holidays