My son was invited to visit McDuffie center at the beginning of his senior year (2022). He was highly impressed with the level of playing and the curriculum. I’m not a musician so I can only relay his feedback. The string students there played at a level higher than the highest (there are three) Texas all-state orchestra but lower than NYO2. (Texas all-state only practice together for 4 days while NYO2 practice together for several weeks.) The several students he met there were passionate, hardworking, and happy. He has friends (violinists, cellists, and violists) in Curtis, Peabody, Shepherd, Julliard, Eastman, etc. He felt that some McDuffie students were on par with his friends in those schools. If Eastman is on OP’s list, I believe McDuffie could be too.
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