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Author: vials
Date: 2008-07-22 12:20

Hi everyone, this is my first post here, though i have for at least a year been reading the bboard =)

I live in Sweden, play the clarinet, and am starting my senior year in high school this year. I want to do my undergraduate in performance at a college in the U.S and would like some (.. a lot!) of advice regarding, well, everything!

I am reading about all the top places like eastman, cleveland, curtis, etc, and they all seem fantastic, but of course it must be really hard to get accepted to one of "those". So here's my main problem, I have no idea how good i am in comparison to the people who get into these schools. My high school is what we call a "music high school" or something, so I get private lessons and all that in school. Here I am considered very good, but to be honest there are not that many clarinetists to be compared to, Sweden is a small country!

I play both jazz and classical (more and more classical though), and I have two videos on youtube you can check out

Unfortunately it's only from when im playing in a jazz ensemble in school, and the other is me playing a jazzed up arrangement of Paganinis no 24 caprice, but I DO play a lot of classical music too. In september I am going to play the 1st movement of Weber 1 with the school symfony orchestra in Germany

http://youtube.com/user/voggorb

Since i won't have the opportunity of visiting a lot of schools and teachers to get myself an idea of what would be best for me, all i can really go by are other people's opinions on the different colleges/conservatories, etc.

One thing I know is that i'm not absurdly talented like Julian Bliss for example, but I work hard at improving and want to go as far as I possibly can in performing

So basically I'm asking you guys for advice on choosing schools to apply to. It would be ideal for me to listen to other clarinetists in my age who are applying to the top schools so I can know how I compare to them..

Anyway, thanks for taking your time reading this rather long post, and I appreciate ALL advice!

Post Edited (2008-07-22 12:20)

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