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Author: NBeaty
Date: 2009-08-18 20:24
Generally,
Education
Teachers
Ensemble experience
Teaching experience
Leadership experience related to music
There are other things, but those are the main ones.
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Author: Joseph Brenner, Jr.
Date: 2009-08-18 21:49
My only suggestion is that you explain the term "bursary;" doing so may give you more replies. I notice that you and NBeaty have Canadian addresses. Despite my view that we're all one people, differences do show up in words and usage of people who speak the same language. I just checked the term in my dictionary, and saw that it means not only a bursar's office, but also a stipend, or scholarship, or fellowship, or some type of funding. Despite my age, travels, and twenty years of formal education, I had not been aware of a meaning of "bursary" other than the office of somebody who wears green eyeshades and pinches pennies. best wishes, jbjr
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Author: William
Date: 2009-08-18 22:21
NBeaty has provided the general sequence for your resume. The only thing I would clarify is that under each topic, list your most recent experiance, degree, awards, etc, first, with dates and places, and then go chronologically backwards in time with each subsequent life event.
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Author: Ken Shaw ★2017
Date: 2009-08-18 22:30
Read performer's bios on their sites and on CD inserts, which show the form that readers seem to prefer. Be sure to list each conductor's name as well as the ensemble you've played with.
I'm of two minds about listing master classes in which you've performed. A single 20-minute session with a famous performer hardly seems to make a difference, but a lot of people put them in. I'll be interested to read what others have to say.
Good luck.
Ken Shaw
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Author: mrn
Date: 2009-08-18 22:42
I think "bursary" is short for "bursary award."
A long time friend who was a classmate of mine in junior high and high school is Canadian. I thought we spoke the same language until she decided to attend a university in Ontario.
All of a sudden she no longer "took exams," she "wrote exams." And she didn't earn "grades," either, but received "marks." And while my first-year university friends and I in Texas were "fish," she was a "frosh."
The language is different up there, eh? 
Post Edited (2009-08-18 22:51)
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Author: clariknight
Date: 2009-08-19 02:48
Umm, you might want to remove your address and phone # from this posting. This is an open forum and anyone can see what you post.
Otherwise, it looks pretty thorough and well organized.
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Author: Ken Shaw ★2017
Date: 2009-08-19 11:50
Curinfinwe -
I'd make a small change. "Intermittent" adds nothing to "lessons" and weakens the effect. You studied with Wesley Ferreira, period.
Otherwise, very nicely done.
Ken Shaw
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Author: grenadilla428
Date: 2009-08-19 14:48
Include your instrument somewhere in the resume heading.
I would list the ensemble name first, then your chair placement only when it is a very high placement: assistant principal or principal.
Under the Dartmouth 11/12 listing, does "second clarinet" mean 2nd chair, 2nd stand, or 2nd part? Since it makes the reader ask the question, I would leave it out and list only the "principal 2009-2010."
It is not dishonest to leave out every chair placement in every ensemble. You want to show your involvement, which listing the ensembles will do for you. But you also want to show your accomplishments and minimize anything that was not your best. They know you played clarinet in these ensembles because you put "clarinet" in your resume heading. It's not important where you sat unless it was at the top, which you were, frequently. Get the rest of the clutter out of the way and let that fact shine. :-)
Good luck!
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