Re: Re: Re: Re: college scholorships


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Posted by Lesson not audition on November 20, 2003 at 22:22:31:

In Reply to: Re: Re: Re: college scholorships posted by I have... on November 20, 2003 at 21:28:37:

What you should be looking to do now is not an audition (tryout?) but rather to take some lessons from the tuba teacher at each school you're interested in. Figure out if you think he'd be a good teacher for you, whether you could work together. Listen to what he hears in your playing, good and what needs to be improved. That's all part of getting ready to audition.

Auditions themselves usually come your senior year, in the winter. Most schools post pretty clear guidelines in what they want you to play: probably a choice of solos at college level, perhaps some significant etudes, scales of course, and, in some places, important orchestral excerpts. With some care in choosing, you should be able to build an audition repetoire that will satisfy all or almost all of the schools you're interested in.

Don't know how certain you are your first choice will want you, but I'd strongly urge you to have three groups of schools: reaches (places you'd love to go, but getting in is so hard even if you're qualified, it's a crap shoot -- in music, think Julliard, Curtis), probables (places you'd like to go, meet all their grade and test score criteria, know and like the teacher, and reasonably believe you have a strong chance of being admitted) and safetys (places you'd be willing to go, where your credentials are significantly stronger than most admitted candidates, and you have good reason to believe you play at a level equal to or higher than most of their recent tuba admitees).

Good Luck!


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