All auditions articles
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ReviewBook review: An Auditioning Double Bassist’s Tool Kit
Cathy Elliott looks through Jon McCullough-Benner’s book featuring bowings, fingerings and useful tips for standard audition repertoire
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BlogsPositive audition preparation outcomes – even when you don’t get the job
While the process may be daunting, repetitive and sometimes demoralising, there is huge value to be found in preparing for auditions. Online editor and cellist Davina Shum examines five positive things to take away from preparing for orchestral auditions
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FocusThe ideal candidate: Preparing for orchestral auditions
Charles Noble offers tips to violists seeking an orchestral job in this extract from July 1999
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VideoViolinist Noah Bendix-Balgley gives Don Juan masterclass
’In an audition you only have a couple of minutes to make a big impression… we need a little more on the character and sweep of this’
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FocusMy audition journey: Nuno Carapina, Philharmonia Orchestra
The violinist in the Philharmonia Orchestra highlights the importance of being prepared for auditions, including why you should learn the full first movement of your Mozart Concerto
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Focus’A musician must be broadly based, not just an instrumentalist’ - auditioning for music colleges
In this extract from September 2000, faculty members at some of the world’s top music colleges share what they’re looking for in an ideal conservatoire candidate
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FocusMy audition journey: Guðný Jónasdóttir, Iceland Symphony Orchestra
The cellist in the Iceland Symphony Orchestra shares her audition experience and how she finds solace in the mantra ‘You win some, you lose some’
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NewsHow to prepare for an orchestral audition
First violinist in the San Francisco Symphony Catherine van Hoesen offers her advice on orchestral auditions, regarding preparation, musicality, feedback and nerves, in this extract from 2014
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Premium ❘ FeatureCollege auditions advice: When you’re ready
Those three little words needn’t chill your spine in the audition room: Joanne Talbot asks the examiners what they’re looking for when you stand in front of them. From September 2000
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NewsThe Strad October 2018 issue is out now
Hilary Hahn recorded her first disc of Bach when she was a teenager. Now, two decades on, she returns to complete the set
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VideoPhiladelphia concertmaster David Kim on orchestral auditions
‘Through all of those barriers, psychological and physical, you have to make beautiful art somehow, in a setting that is so unartistic and unispiring.’ In this interview for J.W. Pepper, Philhadelphia Orchestra concertmaster David Kim talks about how he learned to audition for orchestras and how to thrive in the ...
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BlogsPreparing for an orchestral audition: the basics
Gary Levinson, senior principal associate concertmaster of the Dallas Symphony Orchestra, sets out the principles of successful audition preparation
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NewsVienna Philharmonic publishes pictures from its recent auditions
The orchestra shares its efforts to maintain fairness and describes the complicated process of gaining full membership