Really? Thirds for violin audition?

onekidmama
Tue, 11 Feb 2014 03:56:42 +0000

My S is currently overwhelmed by a lot of new repertoire his teacher has assigned him, right before three auditions coming up Saturday, Sunday and Tuesday for grad school violin performance. I offered to pose this question for him: Does CIM really ever request the memorized thirds? Scales and arpeggios, fine; but he has not been working on thirds. I know this is pretty specific – any violinists or parents whose kids auditioned at Cleveland and can answer this question? Should he take the chance that they won’t ask for those? He’s very well-prepared in every other way.