Klarinet Archive - Posting 000094.txt from 2001/10

From: "Robert Moody" <LetsReason@-----.com>
Subj: Re: [kl] Accompianist Payment?
Date: Fri, 5 Oct 2001 07:32:42 -0400

If this person accompanies regularly, then don't feel "pressured" to pay
them anymore for playing the Mozart. It is NOT that challenging for
professional pianists (not in the least!) and he has probably memorized it
by now.

Now...if he was playing Brahms or Schumann with you. Maybe even the Weber
"Grand Duo" last movement and your adrenaline is pumping. ;-)

I'd say, $25 a rehearsal-hour and $30 for the audition. Normally, I would
pay them $50 for the recital-hour, but an audition is merely a snip-it of
the time and effort they need to put in.

Robert
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From: "Will Cicola" <clarinetguy@-----.net>
Subject: [kl] Accompianist Payment?

> In a couple of weeks is the Pittsburgh Youth Symphony Concerto
> Competition, in which members of the orchestra audition on a solo
> piece, and the winner gets to perform that piece with the orchestra in
> the December concert. Anyway, everyone has to audition with a piano
> accompianist (the accompianist is required only for the audition,
> though, as the orchestra will be playing the background part for the
> concert), and my chorus director was kind enough to agree to do this
> for me.
>
> My question is this: What is the standard payment made to
> accompianists? I feel especially strongly about paying him because A)
> he is giving up an entire afternoon for me in order to do this, and B)
> the piece I selected is the first movement of the Mozart Concerto,
> which I understand is a beast for the pianist (to say the least). Any
> help that anyone could offer would certainly be appreciated!
> --
> On the highway of life, I'm on a tricycle going in circles.
> Will Cicola
> clarinetguy@-----.net
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