Music Auditions

CAtbonemom
Sun, 05 Feb 2012 12:20:39 +0000

Sassy, my S auditioned yesterday at Cal State Long Beach. The audition confirmation letter stated that they would provide an accompanist, and they did. Check your confirmation letter, because he is a brass player and yours may be different. Several groups of students had the same ‘audition time’, after which we had a brief (but very informative) orientation, then they went to a waiting room, and they were called out to go warm up and then go audition. It was different from any other school he has auditioned at (without a ‘set’ audition time) but it was very well organized. They have a beautiful facility, and I waited for him out in the warm sun - you can’t beat the Southern California winters. He played portions of his prepared pieces, and they had him sight read. They did not ask him to pay scales.