Audition Venues

glassharmonica
Thu, 13 Sep 2012 10:18:13 +0000

It’s true you need to be prepared for anything. My daughter’s Juilliard audition was an example: she had been told by her teacher and others that the violin auditions were traditionally held in the main recital hall, a room she was familiar with and had played in before. Imagine her surprise when her audition was held, instead, in a gigantic new orchestra rehearsal hall. The panel was so far away that she could barely make out who was who, and the sound in the room was, of course, quite different than what she had imagined it would be. The year she applied to colleges, her auditions were held in every kind of room, ranging from larger, reverberant halls to dead-sounding classrooms.