What you will need to apply:

The application form is at the bottom of this page.

You will be asked for:

• Your name & contact info

• A recent headshot/photo

• A short cover paragraph (<300 characters.)

• An up-to-date CV including relevant musical & business experience/skills.

• Social media links (optional)

• 4 short recordings (information below)

  
  Recording Information:

  The audio files do not need to be high quality.

• A phone recording is absolutely fine, as long as we can hear you clearly.

• For the recordings that use backing tracks, please ensure you are clearly audible over the track.

• When recording yourself on your phone, we suggest you use a separate device/laptop/phone to play the track you are singing along to.

• We really want to hear your natural voice rather than something that has been mixed or produced.

• Recordings that have been tuned, or heavily produced will be discarded. Please ensure your recordings are an accurate representation.

  Naming Your Files

  Please ensure your files are clearly named as follows:
  Your Name - Song Title
  e.g
  Imogen Parry - Little Organ Fugue.mp3
  

Application materials & Information

Please record all of the following:

Song Choice
Please submit an unedited, unaccompanied, non-classical song of your choosing that best showcases the type of singer you are. No longer than a minute or so.

Goodbye England
Please sing the solo line marked ‘Your Line’.
You should record yourself singing along to the track called Goodbye England Cue and Backing.
Make sure your voice can be heard clearly over the backing.
There are other materials in the folder to assist with the learning.

As you’ll hear from the Vocal Example file, Imogen has been slightly freer than the written rhythms in order for the solo to sound more natural and speech-like. You are welcome to do the rhythms exactly as written or to imitate Imogen, or sing your own phrasing, but we want to hear a good sense of pulse and time. Ultimately we want the phrasing to sound natural but still very musical.

Little Organ Fugue
Please sing the S2 line marked ‘Your Line’.
You should record yourself a cappella/ unaccompanied.
There are materials in the folder to assist with the learning.

As you’ll hear from the Vocal Example file, this is sung with no vibrato, a soft airy tone and to a vowel that rhymes with the French word ‘bal’. The consonants should be extremely soft - no hard/wet ‘b’ or ‘d’ sounds and each note should have a slight bounce and decay. Please go with the tempo indicated in the score and learning examples.

The Song of Purple Summer
Please sing the S1 line marked ‘Your Line’.
You should record yourself singing along to the track called The Song of Purple Summer Cue and Backing.
Make sure your voice can be heard clearly over the backing.
There are other materials in the folder to assist with the learning.

As you’ll hear from the Vocal Example file, here you are singing a soaring choral line. We are looking for a pure tone, almost like a boy treble. The ‘doon’ should be light and slightly percussive but no hard/wet consonant. Please observe the note lengths and phrase off at the end of both ascending scales.

We know that some applicants will be more comfortable with the low range required for Goodbye England and that some will be more comfortable at the top of the stave as in Song of Purple Summer - but don’t worry, at this stage we really just want to hear your voice at the extremes of your range and where you naturally sit vocally.

You can download all the sheet music, audio recordings, & learning tracks below.

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