Category: auditions
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[audition feedback] DSO audition
One of the ways I get the most bang from my buck at auditions is to gather as much feedback as possible. I always email the audition coordinator after the audition, but rarely get a response. As a result, I got into the habit of recording my auditions and sending them to my teachers for…
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Dallas Symphony and Flower Mound Community Orchestra
In the first week of January, I did 3 auditions: Dallas Symphony, New World Symphony, and Flower Mound Community Orchestra. This was a lot, but there was no new rep to prepare, so I wasn’t too concerned. The Dallas audition had over 30 excerpts. I prepared the same four excerpts for NWS and FMCO (all…
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New World Symphony application 2022
-UPDATE: I was invited to audition for NWS. Whoa! This was a super last minute decision. I thought about the NWS on when I woke up on January 8, and saw that the final deadline was January 10. Oh, and I had an audition for a community orchestra on January 9! Buuuuuut…. since I had…
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[Prep] Dallas Symphony Orchestra Associate Principal Flute audition
I had a lot of fun preparing this audition! I mean, as much “fun” as one can have under all that pressure… But, I did let myself explore a variety of ways of preparing, which kept it interesting. Perhaps I felt a little more free to do so because this is the third time I’ve…
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Las Colinas Symphony Orchestra Principal Flute audition
It’s a little after the fact now (the audition was 9/14), but I felt pretty good about my performance at this audition. At least I felt it represented me pretty accurately, and Firebird has come a VERY long way. It still needs work, but I made the decision to play it a bit slower and…
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Knoxville Symphony Principal Flute Audition
Knoxville was a deep audition for me. About a month before the audition, I happened to talk with a mother whose teenage daughters were suffering with/having treatment for eating disorders. I offered her my own experience with anorexia as a teenager in empathy, which made me think more deeply about my experience. My anorexia was…