<p>For my son’s schools and instruments, it was “Don’t call us; we’ll call you” (and we’ll tell you exactly what date and time to be there, without loads of notice—). He had two auditions that were scheduled for the same day in different cities (and these were two schools that one would think would be very well aware of each other’s audition schedule, given the fact that there is so much overlap among applicants). There were obviously enough students that were affected by this, that they opened a second day (and gave him Sunday morning…early…not anyone’s favorite time for an audition!). </p>
<p>He also had two auditions scheduled for a different Sunday and a Thursday (two instruments, same school), and they kindly moved his Thursday audition to first audition Tuesday morning (with the graduate students; the undergrad auditions were the ones later in the week, so that was a little nervewracking). At least we didn’t have to hang around for four days.</p>
<p>I did find everyone very nice and accommodating, when they could be, as in the case of these two auditions which needed to be changed. However, when waiting for prescreen results and dates, it is often really hard to plan air/hotel travel plans. I did purchase tickets for the one we knew about in advance, assuming he’d pass the pre-screen (which he fortunately did, and purchasing early saved money), but it made me nervous to be putting the cart before the horse.</p>
<p>Good luck to everyone embarking on the audition journey!</p>