Music Supplement for Ivies

memake
Tue, 20 Jan 2009 10:38:29 +0000

Your application will showcase what you have accomplished so far with the resources available to you – it’s fine to tell about your school orchestra accomplishments, your love for violin, your composer/arranger/director position with your church choir.

If you are able to produce a DVD or CD of the church choir performing your arrangement, I feel that would be a better supplement to send than one of you performing the Monti, (unless you are impossibly amazing at the Monti, which we CC-ers really have no way of knowing). I do not think it is uncommon for students to send in a supplement CD of a work such as the Monti - at some schools, for some applicants, it will make a difference.
That doesn’t mean that all those CD’s always have an effect on the applications - that is hard for us to measure.

Here’s an idea - does your area have a non-school, audition-based Youth Orchestra? If yes, you should consider auditioning for a place there next year. Many Youth Orchestras have annual fees amounting to hundreds of dollars (the range varies) but they mostly offer scholarships to kids who have limited financial resources. Anyways, that would possibly put you in touch with private teachers and music directors who might be good resources for you. If you are exceptionally talented you might find a teacher willing to work with you for lower fees than usual.