Author: huboboe
Date: 2011-04-04 17:59
Sorry, should have re-read your questions before finishing my last post.
Use the same program for all auditions. Concentrates your energies in one place. By all means, pick at least contrasting pieces, one to show you technical prowess and another to demonstrate slow but beautiful melodic lines. (That's the harder of the two!) It would be good to have contrast in historical periods as well - something Baroque or Classical, something Romantic or Impressionistic, something Modern.
You are trying to show who you are and what you grasp of Music (and technique) but the assumption is that you still have a lot to learn, so don't feel that you need to the hardest possible thing perfectly.
Memorizing is impressive if it comes easily, but I recommend you spend the effort on perfecting your fluid technique.
Most university music departments are concerned with the Arts as part of a well rounded education. Depending on the private teacher, a university music department like Indiana State or Arizona State could give you almost the same education as you get at Conservatory.
But the Conservatories are a different animal. The assumption is that you are on track to become a professional performer, and the entire curriculum is heavily skewed in that direction. Instead of being one of two or three of the better oboists in the department you could find yourself swimming with 14 or 15 of the best young oboists in the country. This can be intimidating.
Not to discourage you - if that's your goal, that's the thing to do, but you might do the first couple of years locally and do your upper class and advanced degrees at the Conservatory. By that time you'll have a better sense of how to accomplish your goals.
I spent 2 years at Foothill College and 2 years at the SF Conservatory - but I had taken private lessons from 9 years old and was playing alongside my teachers by the time I went to the Conservatory.
As I said, performance is an apprenticeship trade...
Robert Hubbard
WestwindDoubleReed.com
1-888-579-6020
bob@westwinddoublereed.com
|
|
The Oboe BBoard
.jpg){kind=small}
