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Re: Contrasting works for auditions

Author: Ed Palanker
Date: 2013-07-28 17:41

I taught at the Peabody conservatory for many years so here's my advise. Check the audition requirments for each of the schools you want to aidition for. I never liked a student to play a contemporary piece that I was not familiar with because I didn't have the ability to judge how it's being performed. One of the things we did in my days, 19 years, was to require all undergraduates to play the Adagio mov't from the Mozart concerto as a sourse of comparision to judge musicianship and maturity. Then we allowed the student to choose anything else they wanted. The Debussy is a great piece, it showes every aspect of an udergraduate audition. We welcomed a Brahms Sonata or any of the other pieces you've already played and most of the others mentioned. I think it's OK to play something contempory as long as you give the jury a choice of something else so they can judge you on something standard as well. The Debussy fit's that well. Check each school for sure first.

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