<p>appassionato: It is rare for high-end musicians to ever feel that they have done their best at auditions so I would stay positive. The audition panel usually have very perceptive ears and can hear the talent and potential and your hard work through any glitches that might occur. </p>
<p>Occasionally I hear people make comments about students needing a perfect audition to get into the best schools or that a memory lapse or wrong note will mean an automatic rejection. Such statements are utterly false and either the products of huge ignorance or malice. No one has ever given a perfect audition and countless people have either had memory lapses or played several wrong notes and still been accepted with large scholarships at the best schools.</p>
<p>A good audition is not the audition with an absence of errors or glitches. Rather the good audition is the one that has an abundance of good things happening: beautiful tone, control of the instrument, connection and communication with the audience, deep understanding of the musical structure and impulses etc… If you possess those things, they shine through even on a bad day, even through the obvious imperfections.</p>
<p>So, stay positive, keep preparing well, anticipating the best.</p>