Pit Musician?

Parentof2014grad
Mon, 20 Dec 2021 16:02:48 +0000

That’s a very specific performance opportunity to seek out. My son is studying voice at a school of music at a university. He also plays cello and piano and has taken two years of lessons on cello at his university. On cello he has accompanied one of the university choirs, accompanied extracurricular choirs, played for someone’s composition, been paid to play for a church, and did have an opportunity to play for the pit orchestra for one of the university operas—he passed on this one. I think it was announced that they needed players for the pit through the strings department at the beginning of the semester. He’s heard of most of these through people who found out he played cello and asked him if he could accompany—essentially networking within the music department. Same for piano. He has had various accompanying gigs that came about because people know he plays and needed a pianist.