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Double Bass College Auditions 2006

#62
Paul, it seems like you have really researched your options for schools. What is your order of choices of schools and what teacher are planning on studying with at each school? I'm looking at schools for next year, and I just can't really make up my mind about where or who I want to study with.
 
#63
Snakewood said:
Paul did you meet a bassist auditioning for Curtis named Callum Macleod? He's like 20, very slim and has a shaved head. He's from UofT in Toronto.
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No. I haven't seen that many bassists around here, actually. I try not to meet new people right before auditions -- it can be really nerve wracking.

Masterbass said:
Paul, it seems like you have really researched your options for schools. What is your order of choices of schools and what teacher are planning on studying with at each school? I'm looking at schools for next year, and I just can't really make up my mind about where or who I want to study with.
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I only had one school that I considered a "fallback," and that was Peabody. I applied to Indiana to study with Bruce Bransby. I had studied with him at Aspen and really liked him. From what I hear Boston University isn't particularly great as a general undergraduate school, but Ed Barker is an amazing teacher. Hal Robinson at Curtis and Paul Ellison at Rice are both insanely good teachers. If I had to rank them, I'd probably put Curtis above Rice and those two above BU and IU.

If you really want to figure this out, talk to current and past students from those schools and try to get lessons from the teachers at those schools.
 
#64
Thanks for the advice paul. I'm sure glad someone out there knows what they are talking about, it seems like you just really have it together and you know about everything there is to know about schools. Congrats on getting into indiana, it's to bad that Bruce Bransby and IU were on the bottom of your list, would have been nice to find out you got into one of your top choices first, but I'm sure you'll get in!
 
#66
i had my juilliard audition stuff memorized, and it's good because i forgot my sheet's at the hotel. I played alright except for one spot in my etude, i lost my place. I got back, though, and played alright. I didnt mess up note-wise or technique wise or anything like that.

and i rocked butler....for the most part.
 
#68
Mingus Fingus said:
how did everything go for everybody? auditions should be wrapped up...let us know when you get word, should be around april 1st, right?
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My New England Conservatory audition didn't go over too well. I'm not really sure what happened, but I kept messing up all over the place in Bottesini and got really nervous (thus screwing me up more). I don't really think I'll be accepted which doesn't bother me because it's my second to last choice for schools.

Curtis was a nice experience. I played pretty well and Edgar Meyer and Hal Robinson were extremely nice to me and said they enjoyed my playing. I had to wait around for 2 hours after they called me up to the practice room and after I warmed up for abour an hour I just didn't want to warm up anymore and I started to get cold before the audition which began at 8. I won't be accepted but I'm kind of glad I got to do it just to play in front of the two.

Montclair was a breeze. It's my safety school and there's no chance I'll be rejected.

The New York three went over very well and I'm happy with how I played for all of them. My teacher, Linda McKnight said I played very well during my Manhattan audition (which is genuine because she didn't say some nice things to the other pre-college kids) and later in the day Orin O'Brien told her (not knowing that I'm her student) that she thought that I sounded really good.

The next day at Juilliard she came up to me in the hallway and shook my hand and thanked me for my playing and told me I'll feel at home at Juilliard so I felt really good coming into the audition. I thought I played well at Juilliard but I heard a lot of good people throughout the day warming up and auditioning so who knows if I'll get in. Mannes was pretty much flawless which is unfortunate for me because I wanted to study with Homer Mensch if I went there and he's since passed away so there's not much for me there.
 
#70
So far I've gotten into New England Conservatory, Mannes, and Montclair and got rejected from Curtis (what a suprise :smug:). New England was a suprise for me because, like I mentioned before, my audition was pretty bad. I got into Donald Palma's studio so I'm feeling good about hearing back from my remaining schools. I'm hoping that they'll get back to me in a day or two because the wait is killing me.
 
#72
Thanks! It's a bad musical reason, but I really like New York City as a location. It's close to my home and my girlfriend who has one more year of high school and wants to go to school in NYC. NEC is a great school and I don't have it lower on my list because of the quality of the school or the teachers, it's just that I think I would just be happier in the city. I really would like to study with Donald Palma so I'm not sure where I'll end up.
 
#75
Alright, I've heard from everyone but Peabody at this point. Peabody was a safety in the first place, so their reply won't affect my decision.

I was accepted to Indiana University, Boston University, and Rice University. I was rejected from Curtis. I haven't received all the financial information yet, but at the moment I'm almost certainly going to attend Rice.
 
#78
Congrats to all who have auditioned.

I've got an audition for the masters programme in Invalid Link Removed on March 17th. Already feeling quite nervous - I haven't had to audition in quite a while, and this is the only place i'm auditioning for. Lasse Lagercrantz is the bass teacher there and i've been taking lessons with him for about a year. I've got alot riding on the audition (if i don't get in i'll be kinda deported!). I'm hoping to play the audition material (kouss.1+2 from memory and cerny study 12) for a few friends pretty soon.

I have a stinking orchestra week (mahler 5 and sibelius 'en saga') finishing on the 12th - only 5 days from the end of that to the audition. STRESS.:help:
 

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