Recorded Audition Vs Live Audition

bridgenail
Sun, 22 Nov 2015 17:39:57 +0000

Tenacity, perseverance, networking, an ability to advocate for yourself, an ability to balance dreams with financial realities, an ability to manage scarce resources (time and money), a certain amount of cunning and self-belief when you aren’t at “the” program for school, summer festival etc…are part of the game. You don’t fly around to expensive auditions, go to “the” selective school, sail on through and get hired at your dream orchestra. In most cases no matter what school you attend you’ll get the opportunity to struggle in some way after college.

You are just starting the game and it can be played many ways at many places. The worst thing is to give up or predict your demise before you even try.

You have much good advice here. Now pick up the darn phone and start advocating for yourself. Everyone has to…maybe you just get to learn this lesson a little earlier than others. And ignore your doubts. Everyone has them. They aren’t that interesting. What you’ll learn by talking with the schools and students will be far more interesting and positive (in most cases) than what you worried mind will be busy telling you (and mostly likely far, far more accurate).

Good luck.