Category: auditions
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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…
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Leonore Overture Daily Exercises
***UPDATED on 6/29/21: I made an error on the second page of the exercise, which is now fixed 🙂 We’re now in Denton, TX! Here are some exercises I worked on for the solo from Leonore Overture. They’re perfect if you need a little something different to practice in your scale and arpeggio practice, while…
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Audition mindset
Auditions are super tough. They take a lot of preparation and courage, with no guarantee of success. It is easy to slip into thinking that the system is unfair, or that THEY won the job because they went to [enter prestigious school name here] and studied with so-and-so. It is fine to feel that way…
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New World Symphony Audition
This audition was at the Colburn school in downtown LA, very convenient for me. The rep I played was Mozart G exposition, Leonore overture opening, Brahms 4, and Firebird. Thoughts: Mozart: pretty strong, and since the audition wasn’t blind, I was able to see the panel grooving along which was cool. Leonore: started too slow…
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How much do I practice?
Practice time is a prized commodity in our family, since both me and Robert are musicians. We try to make it as even as possible between the two of us and be creative about finding pockets of time throughout the week. I practice 6 days of the week, and 4 of those are while I…
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A bit weary
I have been doing a lot. Working a lot, and when I’m not working, practicing or otherwise preparing for auditions, one after another. Boom boom boom. I love it, but I’ve been feeling tired lately. Not just tired like I need to get more sleep- I think weary is the right word. Fear not, for…