It’s been said over and over: you can only control your own performance, not how the other applicants at an audition… Read More »Control in an audition
When I was in college, I spent embarrassing amounts of time and money taking auditions. I didn’t even hesitate purchasing… Read More »Audition postmortem
The Springfield Symphony closed out its season this spring with Saint-Saëns’s Organ Symphony. Of course, this piece contains one of the… Read More »Saint-Saëns: Organ Symphony
When preparing for auditions, the best possible exercise is playing mock auditions for other people. Do everything you can to… Read More »Mock auditions
While I talk about audition preparation from the candidate’s perspective here, Dave Bilger (principal trumpet of the Philadelphia Orchestra) is… Read More »From the other side of the screen