| My son is applying to college, hoping to major in trumpet performance. His first audition is tomorrow, Jan. 5, for Oberlin. He has already heard--from a trumpet player he knows there--that they really have no openings for trumpet and will only take one player if they come across someone outstanding. He knows he is not THAT good, so doesn't expect much. He also has auditions coming up for Lawrence and Northwestern. He sent tapes to Indiana and Stanford, and will be sending one to New England Conservatory. (Stanford is basically just in there because his brother goes there, and son #2 wants to see if he can get in. He would only go there if he is not accepted at a good music school, or so he says now.) He is also considering North Texas (his trumpet teacher's alma mater) and Northern Colorado.
Does anyone know if tapes are accepted as well as auditions? We just can't afford to fly him across the country to audition, so his only live auditions are those where colleges have regional auditions in a nearby city.
This is definitely more work than it was for my first son, who was looking for Japanese and engineering.
Susan M |