Tag: 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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Mendelssohn Scherzo exercises
Here’s another set of excerpt exercises- this time for Mendelssohn Scherzo. This is one of my favorite excerpts, thanks to this “movable fermata” technique I learned from Cathy. I also feel that breath control is one of my strengths, and it’s an excerpt that comes out more reliably for me than many others! Movable fermata…
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Peter and the Wolf exercises
I’ve been wanting to transcribe these different ways of practicing excerpts for myself (for future reference) and for anyone that might be struggling to take these excerpts from proficient to professional. Download the pdf below:
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Building a personal emergency fund
About a year ago, we were at a financial low point. We had almost nothing in our checking account and our credit card was maxed out. In March 2019, I acknowledged this was an issue I needed to figure out. I realized we were spending about $400 more each month than we were making. We…
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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…