Recital Policies

Send an email to brasshearings@gmail.com immediately after scheduling a recital but at least 4 weeks before your recital. Students must be prepared to play a hearing no less than 2 weeks before the recital date. Hearings are held on Thursdays in Recital Hall from 3:40-6:00pm. Students will present a 20-minute sample of the program, which should be chosen prior to the hearing. Before selecting a hearing time, make certain that assisting performers (pianist, etc.) have agreed to that timeslot. Please bring 3 printed copies of the full recital program.

Students should schedule the recital hearing with Prof. Szmyt two weeks (in some cases 10 days would be accepted) before the date of the recital.

Students must make sure that all participants (accompanists and chamber group members) are available on the scheduled date.  Students are expected to perform most of their recital program at the hearing.  Hearings take place in SM-C100.

For BM, MM, PD students only:

• The student's applied teacher will liaise with student and faculty to schedule a 30-minute recital permission hearing on the organ to be used for the recital no later than 2 weeks prior to the performance.

• Students should bring three copies of their recital program;  in addition. MM students must bring three copies of their completed program notes.

• The hearing begins with a piece of the student's choice; thereafter the faculty request repertoire to be played.  

Students should obtain a Hearing Request Form, as soon as their recital date and time is approved. Please write the Voice Office GAs at voicedep@iu.edu for a digital copy of the Hearing Request Form or pick up a hard copy from the folder outside of the Voice Department Office (MU105).

• Hearings are held Wednesdays at 4:35 p.m. in Recital Hall. Request a hearing date that is the Wednesday 10 days to two weeks before your recital (in other words, at least two Wednesdays before your scheduled recital). Hearings cannot be scheduled the week of your recital, nor can they be scheduled at a time other than 4:35 on a Wednesday.
• On the form, please be sure to indicate any scheduling conflicts for you or your pianist which would require you to sing early or late during the meeting. 
• Hearing Request Forms should be completed, signed by your studio professor, and returned to the Voice Department Office as soon as possible either digitally or by dropping off a hard copy.  
• A Voice Department graduate assistant will contact you with the estimated time of the hearing. Students are usually scheduled in order of degree (junior, senior, MM1, MM2, PD, etc.) but an exact time is impossible to offer.
• If your recital features an assisting performer (flute, another singer, etc.) other than your collaborative pianist, please try to arrange for them to be available as well. If they cannot be available, please write the Voice Department chair, Brian Horne (blhorne@iu.edu) to find a solution.
• All music must be memorized even if it is a piece that would be sung using the score in a professional performance (such as one of the arias from Handel’s Messiah).

Contact Phil Black at blackp@iu.edu immediately after scheduling a recital but at least 4 weeks before your recital.  You must be prepared to play a hearing no less than 2 weeks before your recital.  Hearings are held on Wednesdays in Recital Hall from 2-4pm.  All musicians on the program must be present at the hearing including accompanists, chamber groups, small orchestras, etc.