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The Woodruff Scholarship is an innovative program established for the Schwob School of Music by the Woodruff Family Foundation in December 1999. The Woodruff Scholarship, intended for entering undergraduates, provides a five thousand dollar ($5,000) annual stipend and is renewable for up to four years for a total of twenty thousand dollars ($20,000).

Guidelines and Requirements

1. Applicant will apply by videotape (American VHS)

2. All videotapes will be evaluated by the RASR Committee.

3. Deadline for application is March 1 (postmarked)

4. Application includes:

   1. Woodruff Application Form

   2. A total of three letters of reference from three individuals that know your work ethic submitted on Schwob School of Music Reference Forms (in English submitted under separate cover). NOTE: The three total references required shall consist of the two references required for the audition application plus one additional reference for the Woodruff Award Application.
      
      The blank recommendation form is available in either Word Format or PDF. Word format allows you to enter information directly into the form and print multiple copies. If you do
      not have access to Microsoft Word, PDF format allows you to view your form
      electronically on most computers. The freely available Adobe Acrobat reader is required
      to view and print PDF files.
      
      Recommendation Form (Word Format)
      Recommendation Form (PDF)
       

   3. Videotape with applicant performance* (Live or Studio Performance with accompaniment where appropriate).
       

5. All applicants for the Woodruff Scholarship must be accepted to Columbus State University and the Schwob School of Music by March 1 and admissible for full-time enrollment.

6. Keyboard and Vocal finalists will be asked to sight read.

7. Winners of the Woodruff Scholarship will be notified before April 1.

*All sonatas, concertos, and solo pieces that have piano accompaniment, must be presented with
piano accompaniment. 

Woodruff Scholarships are subject to the same conditions as Schwob School of Music Scholarships
and in accordance with conditions printed in the scholarship contract and the Music Student Handbook (PDF).

 

Instruments

Voice

• Three art songs of contrasting styles, periods, and languages including English, Italian, and German or French.

• An operatic or oratorio aria appropriate to the singer's vocal development may substitute for one of the required songs.

• All selections must be memorized.

Introduce yourself and your selections in English on the video.

Piano

Perform each of the following:

• One Prelude and Fugue by J. S. Bach, performed from memory

• One Allegro movement from a Beethoven sonata, performed from memory

• One major  work from the Romantic period, performed from memory

• One work by a 20th – 21st century art music composer.

All selections must be memorized. Introduce yourself and your selections in English on the video.

Organ

Perform each of the following:

• One major Prelude and Fugue by J. S. Bach (BWV: 547, 565, 544, 542, 532, 543, 541, or 533)

• One work by César Franck or other French composer from 1860-1950

• One work written after 1950 (art music only)

• Pedal and manual scales – two octaves.

Introduce yourself and your selections in English on the video.

Flute

Choose one major solo work on the level of the following examples:

• Either Mozart Concerto 1 in D major or G major, Movt. 1

• Any Bach Sonata or the Partita in A Minor

• Fauré Fantaisie

Introduce yourself and your selection in English on the video.

Oboe

Choose one major solo work on the level of the following examples:

• Mozart Concerto – Movt. 1

• Strauss Concerto – Movt. 1

• Mozart Oboe Quartet – 1st or 3rd Movts.

• Vaughan Williams Concerto – Movt. 1

Introduce yourself and your selection in English on the video.

Clarinet

Choose one major solo work on the level of the following examples:

• Mozart Concerto – Movt. 1

• Weber concerto No. 1 – Movt. 1

• Poulenc Sonata (any two movements)

• Debussy Premiere Rhapsodie

Introduce yourself and your selection in English on the video.

Saxophone

Choose one major solo work on the level of the following examples:

• Glazounov Concerto

• Ibert Concertino da Camera – Movt. 1

• Creston Sonata – Movt. 1

Introduce yourself and your selection in English on the video.

Bassoon

Choose two major solo works on the level of the following examples:

• Mozart Concerto – Movt. 1

• Weber Andante and Hungarian Rondo

• Vivaldi Concerto in A Minor

Introduce yourself and your selection in English on the video.

Trumpet

Two contrasting solo works on the level of the following examples and your choice of two standard orchestral excerpts.

• Enesco, Legend

• Bozza, Caprice or Rustiques

• Kennan, Sonata

• Ewazen, Sonata

• Haydn, Concerto

• Hummel, Concerto

Introduce yourself and your selections in English on the video.

Horn

Two contrasting solo works on the level of the following examples and your choice of two standard orchestral excerpts.

• Strauss, Concerto No. 1 or Concerto No. 2

• Mozart, Concerto No. 3 in E-flat Major

• Dukas Villanelle

• Beethoven, Sonata in F Major, Op. 17

• Saint-Saens, Morceau de Concerte

Introduce yourself and your selections in English on the video.

Trombone

Two contrasting solo works on the level of the following examples and your choice of two standard orchestral excerpts.

• Guilmant, Marceau Symphonique

• Hindemith, Sonata

• Saint-Saens, Cavatine

• David, Concertino

• Grondahl, Concerto

Introduce yourself and your selections in English on the video.

Euphonium

Two contrasting solo works on the level of the following examples and your choice of two standard orchestral excerpts.

• Barat, Andante and Allegro

• Capuzzo, Andante and Rondo

• Jacob, Fantasia

• Ritter George, Sonata

Introduce yourself and your selections in English on the video.

Tuba

Two contrasting solo works on the level of the following examples and your choice of two standard orchestral excerpts.

• Haddad, Suite for Tuba

• Muczynski, Impromptus for Solo Tuba (any 3)

• Vaughan Williams, Concerto

• Persichetti, Serenade #12

Introduce yourself and your selections in English on the video.

Percussion

• Choose one snare drum study from Anthony Cirone “Portraits in Rhythm” or Jacques Delécluse “12 études”

• One timpani study from Mitchell Peters “Fundamental Method for Timpany” (from 47, 49, 60, 63)

• Choose one mallet piece from the following:

  • G. H. Green any xylophone rag

  • Bach: “A minor Violin Concerto” 1st movement from (Goldenberg)

  • “Yellow after the Rain” (Mitchell Peters).
    or pieces of comparable levels of technical difficulty. Contact Dr. Paul
    Vaillancourt for approval. (vaillancourt_paul@colstate.edu)

ntroduce yourself and your selections in English on the video.

Violin

Required:

• Bach two contrasting movements from a solo Sonata or Partita

• Paganini Caprice
  -and-

Choose one major solo work on the level of the following examples:

• Saint-Saens Concerto No. 3 Mvt. 1

• Bruch Concerto No. 1

• Mendelssohn Concerto Mvt. 1

• Any other major Romantic Concerto Mvt. 1

Introduce yourself and your selections in English on the video.

Viola

Required:

• Bach two contrasting movements from any Suite
  -and-

Choose one of the following:

• Stamitz Concerto, I

• Walton Concerto, I

• Hindemith Solo Sonata Op. 25, No. 1

• Either Brahms Sonata

Introduce yourself and your selections in English on the video.

Cello

Required

• Two contrasting movements of a Bach Cello Suite

• Popper Etude from “The High School of Cello Playing”
  -and-

Choose one major solo work on the level of the following examples:

• Haydn Concerto

• Dvorak Concerto

• Schumann Concerto

• Elgar Concerto

• Lalo Concerto

Introduce yourself and your selections in English on the video.

Bass

Required:

• Two contrasting movements of a Bach Cello Suite
  -and-

Choose the 1st movement of any of the following:

• Bottesini Concerto

• Dittersdorf Concerto

• Dragonetti Concerto

• Koussevitzky Concerto

Introduce yourself and your selections in English on the video.

Guitar

• Choose five contrasting works; at least two from a 20th century composer and two from either a baroque or renaissance composer.

• Pieces must be performed from memory.

Introduce yourself and your selections in English on the video.