Keyboard Proficiency Examination

All candidates, whose major instrument is not the piano, must prepare three works from the following repertoire (or works of similar difficulty):

          1)      Bach – Inventions for two voices or symphonies (three voices)

          2)      An easy sonata (first movement or second and third movement) by Haydn, Mozart or Beethoven.

          3)      A Romantic work (19^th century), or a work from the 20^th century (example: Mendelssohn – Song without Words, Schumann – op. 68, Tchaikovsky – op. 39, Kabalevsky – op. 27, Bartok – Microcosm III, II, Debussy – Preludes, Scriabin – Preludes)

Students who do not pass the piano placement examination before commencing their studies at the BMSM, are required to re-take the test by the end of their first year.