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MA cello training – examination and diploma requirements

Year 1, semester 1

  • 1 Paganini capriccio, or 1 Bukinik concert etude, or Popper: Hoheschule Etude No. 12, Etude No. 32 or Etude No. 33, or Piatti: Capriccio No. 3 or 6: students have to prepare two of these etudes from which the exam committee chooses one to be performed at the exam
  • two movements from the following sonatas - Schubert: Arpeggione sonata, or Beethoven: Sonata in A Major, or Brahms: Sonata in F Major, or Poulenc: Sonata
  • a Hungarian solo cello piece from the 20-21st century, with a length of at least 6 minutes up to 10 minutes must be chosen from the following:
    • Eötvös Péter: 2 Poems to Polly
    • Kurtág György: Jelek, Játékok, Üzenetek
    • Kocsár Miklós: Variazioni
    • Vajda János: Solo Sonata
    • Szokolay Sándor: Solo Sonata
    • Balassa Sándor: Three movements for cello
    • Lustyik Ákos: Bilder aus ungeschehenen Zeiten
    • Lendvay Kamilló: Fifthmusic, Solo Sonata
    • Tóth Péter: Letter of Cyrano de Bergerac
    • Reményi Attila: Solo “à livre ouvert”
    • Erőd Iván: Hommage à Beethoven Op. 24
  • one prelude from Bach: Cello Suite No. 4, 5 or 6 (not played at a previous exam or at the entrance exam)

Year 1, semester 2

  • One full 20th century cello concerto of the student's choice, from which the exam committee chooses a ca. 20 minutes long movement or movements before the exam, which is to be performed as a concert.

Year 2 – diploma concert

The diploma concert programme must consist of works from at least 3 different time-periods. The diploma concert programme must be approved by the sub-department. Performance of a concerto is not mandatory, if the programme otherwise fulfills the requirements. 

Year 2 – complex oral exam

The oral exam must consist of a 20-minute oral presentation, possibly supplemented with live music illustration, related to the student's instrument, its literature and history, but not directly related to the repertoire of the student's diploma concert. The student must discuss the topic of the oral exam with their main subject teacher and submit it 3 months prior to the oral exam. In case the presentation is partly related to a piece performed at the diploma concert (composer, genre, etc.), the student must note that the oral exam must not consist of only the analysis of the particular piece.

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