Quality of pre-screen recordings

jazzpianodad
Sat, 23 May 2015 19:04:53 +0000

@ScreenName48105, my son also knows several kids in the Juilliard jazz undergrad program who are from areas of the country that are not anywhere near NYC, so I assume they went through the pre-screen route, not the Juilliard pre-college route. And he knows at least a few kids in prior years who submitted pre-screen recordings as high school students and were invited for live auditions (though not admitted). There’s also a poster here, @convertedjazzdad, whose son was admitted to Juilliard jazz undergrad this year, so he might be able to provide more info on the process.

As for the Zoom, my son has the H4n audio-only recorder and is very happy with the sound quality on it. I don’t have any experience with the Zoom video recorders, but I’ve heard that the sound quality on those is very good as well.