Adrienne's students are encouraged to participate in the annual American College of Music National Piano Playing Auditions, also known as "Guild Auditions," in May or June of each year. The purpose of Guild is to promote piano study among students of all ages and abilities. Students should strive to maintain a piano repertoire of between 7 and 10 pieces (though they may start out with only a few short pieces).

The auditions are adjudicated privately. That is, there is no audience, only the student and the adjudicator. Students play pieces they have learned over the past year. Students who participate earn a membership pin for the National Fraternity of Student Musicians, a frame-able certificate, and a detailed report card. Several of Adrienne's students have earned the Five-Year National Award from Guild, which includes a composer pin designated annually by Guild and commemorating a famous composer, and listing in the Fall issue of Piano Guild Notes, the quarterly publication from the National Guild of Piano Teachers.

Below are some materials that will help students prepare for Guild. In the fall, Adrienne works with each student to determine their Guild goals, and we choose repertoire and musicianship phases (technique, theory and ear-training goals) to focus on throughout the year.

Ear-training exercises for the Elementary Guild classifications can be found at the bottom of this page.