’A musician must be broadly based, not just an instrumentalist’ - auditioning for music colleges

The following is an extract from the article ’College Auditions Advice: When You’re Ready’ from September 2000. To read the full article, click here

Aside from the basics, there’s a quality audition panels throughout the world are looking for. It’s a hard quality to pinpoint precisely, but it concerns the ability to make your mark. Lewis Kaplan, from the Juilliard School in New York explains: ‘At undergraduate level we require a very high technical level of playing, equivalent to international competition standard. Intonation must be very sound and we must feel that there is potential to grow. Ten minutes is a short time, so you must have a point of view - something to say.