Injured on the audition day

Skieur
Sun, 12 Feb 2012 01:11:25 +0000

This is coming from someone with light tendinitis and back pain problems. Only you know if you can play or not, so maybe my advice won’t really help, but usually a warm bath or going for a swim and massaging my hands does it for me. Also, sometimes it feels like your hands and/or back hurt a lot once you stop playing and are at rest, but when you actually get your hands down the instrument, it’s not as bad, for some reason. If the school accepts recordings, then it’s definitely the way to go, but if not, I would first contact the admissions office before contacting the teachers. They probably have dealt with that sort of thing before, and moving your audition to another day might not be impossible for them given the circumstances. They could also have another suggestion, (such as smaller rep, or letting the faculty know). If you feel that they are a little unresponsive, then maybe you could tell the faculty yourself, but it’s always a little delicate I think. I think saying it right before you play might not be the best idea. It would be a little distracting for them I think. Anyway, it may seem like a huge deal now to postpone for your auditions for a cycle, but in the end, I’ve met quite a few people who auditioned after graduating. On the other end, if it’s your last audition and it’s fairly short, without too many virtuosic or fast passages, it might be worth it, since you’ll have multiple months to recover. Again, only you can tell how you feel.