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The solo is important but it isn't the most important part of the audition. Proportionally it's only one of the many pieces you'll have to play on stage and you probably won't be playing as a soloist with the orchestra, whereas you will always be playing the bass parts of orchestral pieces. I'm...

What teacher is known for the solo students they have produced?

New York hasn't happened.

I don't feel the need to put on a show and "act" in any manner because I actually know what goes on at certain auditions, including the New York Philharmonic in detail, which paints a different picture that one would arrive at from the general speculations that you and other posters have made...

That's great that you studied with Levinson for a year in high school (or was it mostly with his teaching assistant?), but that doesn't mean you are less clueless as anyone else in this thread about what really goes on in auditions at the Philharmonic. Furthermore, have you even taken an...

No winner.

Pay no attention to the man behind the curtain.

The doctorate student of Levinson also studied with Orin O'Brien during his undergrad.

Out of the four people that advanced past the first round, only one is a Levinson student, plus Finkelshteyn has nothing to do with American teachers and this is his third time as a finalist for the NY Phil.