Tag: auditions
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Two summer recitals
I’m doing my (now) annual recitals again in Denton, TX and Honolulu, HI. This is definitely the most musically challenging thing I do each year. I’m so glad I started doing recitals. Once I stopped taking quite so many auditions, I was still performing, but I missed the intense pressure of auditions, which forces me…
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[audition #30] The 30th time is not the charm
…far from it. This was the first time I’ve showed up to an audition with the completely wrong list prepared. Obviously, the exact circumstances were different, but it made me imagine what Maria João Pires might have experienced when she sat down to perform a Mozart concerto, but had prepared the wrong one. In my…
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[rep duet + new free downloads] Godard, Idylle
I was thinking of doing this next movement of Godard’s suite, and a personal request helped me commit to it. The accompaniment on this duet is significantly more challenging than other solos of this level, because I wanted to preserve the texture of cascading 16th notes from the original. It was a fun theory challenge…
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6 ways journaling keeps me (somewhat) sane
As a kid, I liked the idea of journaling, but never really caught on to it. I tried writing some of the day’s events in my abundant supply of Sanrio diaries (with the little lock and key- I’m not sure why I received so many of these as gifts). Inevitably, I would forget about it…
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Why I don’t want a full time orchestra job
I recently had the epiphany that I actually don’t want a full time orchestra job, and don’t even want to take auditions for one. This surprised me a little. As a performing classical flutist, obtaining that kind of position is held up as a rare and precious jewel- a dream job. A FTOJ (let’s abbreviate…
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[10.17.23] Resume update
Time to revisit the resume again… I feel a mixture of pride and disappointment in seeing all those years of practicing and effort reduced to a few lines of text. But such is the process for all of us! This is one of the first audition resumes (after 10 years, 29 auditions) I’ve submitted that…