Audition Eligibility:

Any vocalist who will be a full-time high school student during the 2025-2026 School Year and available (August – May) to attend weekly Sunday rehearsals from 1:30pm – 4:30pm.

Yearly Member Tuition:

$650

Audition Application/Video Deadline:

Sunday May 4, 2025 at 11:59pm CST

Before You Start Filming:

• If you are recording your video with a webcam, make sure to adjust your microphone input level so that the sound doesn’t distort. On a Mac, go into System Preferences > Sound > Input tab and lower the input volume.
• Your video can either be in one complete take OR edited together. The audio must remain raw and untouched – no EQ, compression, reverb, or pitch correction of any kind. We want to hear you as you sound in the room.

Audition Video Instructions:

Please make sure your video is edited together in the following order:

1. Introduction

• Say hello! Tell us your name, age, what high school you attend, and your most comfortable/preferred voice part.

2. Main Skill

• If you are primarily a solo/part singer, please sing two contrasting solo pieces unaccompanied. We want to hear your tone, phrasing, intonation, personality, and energy. Have fun with this and pick songs that are in your comfort zone. We want to see you at your best! Just a verse and a chorus is plenty (90 seconds maximum per song). No classical, rap, or musical theatre pieces please. The majority of our repertoire is pop and contemporary ballads.
• If you are primarily a beatboxer/vocal percussionist, please give us a demonstration (90 seconds), which can include anything and everything you’re comfortable with (straight-ahead beats, fills, auxilliary sounds, freestyle beatboxing, etc.) ALSO, please include a segment where you do a simple beat at a comfortable tempo along with a metronome. No need to be flashy for this part, we just want to see that you can keep a consistent beat.

3. Part Singing

• This is the most important part of the audition so please read all details/instructions below!
• Download the learning tracks and performance tracks for “Runaway Baby” *CLICK HERE TO DOWNLOAD*
• Use the learning tracks and sheet music to learn whichever part suits you best. (Beatboxers must sing for both examples) IMPORTANT NOTE: When learning each song, make sure to wear headphones as one ear will play the ensemble parts and the other will have your specific part playing.
• Pay attention to the phrasing, dynamics, tone, and inflections of the voices on the demo, and do your best to blend with them.
• When you’re ready to film, play the “performance track” from a secondary device in the room and sing along with it. Please do not use headphones, as we want to hear your voice front and center with the performance track in the background. Memorization is not necessary.
• You will only be considered for the voice part(s) you sing in your audition video (Example: If you sing the Soprano 1 or Soprano 2 part, you will only be considered for Soprano openings) . If you would like to be considered for multiple voice parts, you will need to submit a part-singing video for each voice part you’re interested in.

4. Scales

• Sing along with our scale guides and stop singing once you can’t comfortably sing any higher or lower. For scales going up, sing “eeee-aaahh” and use your chest/mix voice as high as you can, and then flip into head voice and continue. For scales going down, sing “yah yah yah yah yah”. *CLICK HERE TO DOWNLOAD*

5. Personal Statement

• Briefly (45 seconds or less) tell us why you’re interested in becoming a member of KC A Cappella and what you think you would add to our nationally ranked group, SOUNDPROOF.

APPLICATION FORMS

Once you have completed and uploaded your video to YouTube, you are ready to fill out our application! Click the button below to enter some basic info about yourself as well as the link to your audition video. Thank you for your interest in KC A Cappella and good luck!