’A musician must be broadly based, not just an instrumentalist’ - auditioning for music colleges
2021-11-18T13:50:00
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
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.