Recital Information

Any student planning a recital should read and follow these guidelines closely:

When you schedule your recital date, make sure that you have done so in consultation with your applied teacher. Reserve your date using the calendar maintained in the Lilly Hall main office and completing an Event Form, which must be turned into Rissa Guffey, the Facilities and Events Manager. Please make sure that you read and understand the form and fill it out completely. If you have any questions, please ask.
Your program draft, initialed by your applied teacher, must be submitted to Joy Rogers in the Lilly Hall music office (LH 229) three weeks before your recital. A copy should also be submitted by e-mail to Joy Rogers. Program drafts submitted should include: full composers' names; all composers' date of birth and (if applicable) date of death; Opus #, movements, excerpts, etc.; if a required undergraduate or graduate recital, the following must be included on the program copy:

"This recital is presented in partial fulfillment of the requirements for the ______________ degree in _________." Graduate students should include the title of their undergraduate degree, name of institution and date of graduation.

Event forms (required) are in the wall rack outside of LH 229, or click here to print the event scheduling form (PDF).
The seven-foot Steinway will be the the primary piano left on stage at the Eidson-Duckwall Recital Hall (EDRH).
Students giving a recital as a degree requirement must arrange to have it graded by a minimum of three faculty members, one of whom should be the student's applied teacher (or composition teacher, as applicable). Click here to print the graded recital form (PDF), which should be given to the applied teacher after completing the top portion.
Recital Hearings Policy:
1) Students presenting a required degree recital must first pass a recital hearing. The purpose of the hearing is to assure that students are adequately prepared to present a recital. A recital hearing is not required for non-degree recitals.

2) Recital hearings are to be held at least two weeks in advance of the scheduled recital date. Individual teachers and/or areas may require the hearing to be further in advance.

3) Recital hearings are to be heard by a panel consisting of the applied teacher and at least one other faculty member. Individual teachers and/or areas may require a larger panel.

4) Students are to be prepared to play the entire recital repertoire. The faculty panel may elect to hear the entire repertoire or selected compositions/movements/passages.

5) The recital hearing must be performed with the accompanist and/or other collaborating musicians who will be performing on the recital.

6) Recital hearings may be held in the recital hall or in an appropriate classroom or studio.

7) The student and applied teacher should work together in scheduling recital hearings and in arranging for a venue, accompanist, faculty panel, etc.

8) If the faculty panel determines that the student is not adequately prepared to present the recital, the recital must be postponed at least three weeks from its originally scheduled date. The faculty panel may suggest or require that the recital be postponed further. Students should bear this in mind when originally scheduling recitals.
Recital performances may take place at the following times:

Monday through Thursday: 5:00 p.m., 7:30 p.m.
Friday: 5:00 p.m., 8:00 p.m.
Saturday and Sunday: 2:00 p.m., 5:00 p.m., 8:00 p.m.

(For these performance times, performers shall have access to the facility beginning one hour prior to the start time and for thirty minutes following any performance. Outside of those times, the hall is closed.)

There will be no recitals scheduled during reading days or final examinations except under emergency circumstances with permission of the School of Music chair.
The scheduling of two major recitals or concerts at the same time, regardless of location, is not permitted.
Lilly Hall classrooms may not be used for weekend and evening recitals except in the event of special programming or instrument needs that cannot be accommodated in EDRH.
Recitals may be scheduled in the Johnson Room only when there are conflicts with EDRH. The Johnson Room may be scheduled through Rissa Guffey.
Off-campus recitals will be permitted if solely arranged by the performer. Event details should be submitted to Rissa Guffey for inclusion in the JCFA Master Calendar. All charges for use of off-campus space, including instrument moving and tuning, is the responsibility of the performer.

Any exceptions to these guidelines must be approved in writing by the School of Music chair before the recital is scheduled.