College Audition Results

[hurricane_harry]

western ct state university, i do so love the faculty there

[Lew]

University of Miami and Cal State, Long Beach.

Going to Cal State!
Norm Pearson
John Van Houten

There are 19 universities that use Cal State in their name. Each school is totally different than any other school in the system. I have to laugh when someone says, "I'm going to Cal State." It's a bother, but you have to say the name of the town it's in or, in the case of Stanislaus, the name of the campus (Cal State Stanislaus is in Turlock.)

In Southern California, you have:

Cal State Bakersfield
Cal State Channel Islands (school is in Camarillo)
Cal State Fullerton
Cal State Los Angeles
Cal State Long Beach
Cal State Northridge
Cal State San Marcos
Cal State San Bernardino

And these universities are in the Cal State System

Cal Poly Pomona
Cal Poly San Luis Obispo
San Diego State

Didn't he say that he got into Cal State, Long Beach? I assume that's where he is going.

[Getzeng50s]

artist diploma Assistantship @ Duquesne

[LoyalTubist]

Didn't he say that he got into Cal State, Long Beach? I assume that's where he is going.

Yes he did...

But you still don't say it that way UNLESS you are in Long Beach.

[phoenix]

Play whatever you sound best on. If you attempt something too hard or something that will take you too long to prepare you might not let them know how good of a player you are. Show off your skills and play. I recently auditioned at FSU, MTSU, TTU, UA and Indiana, and received a considerable about of scholarship money from each. I played the Lebedev concerto and the Gregson First Movement, and all went very well. So Like I said, stick with something that shows off your skills both musically and technically.

Hate to break it to ya, but k-town was wondering where people are going to college, not advice on how to audition for college. Good advice though...

[daktx2]

The University of Miami under Mr. Olah!!! WOOOO! GO CANES!
(a little excited)

[Michael Woods]

Transfer to IU.

[jtuba]

Got into Manhattan School of Music and Rutgers. have no money... going to Rutgers.

jake

Speaking as someone who went to both schools(MGSA '96, MSM '98), study with Scott and go to the city to hear the concerts. Go to MSM for grad school, study with Toby, live in the city, and go to the concerts. You couldn't get a better education.

[THE TUBA]

I am a bit of a slacker: I only auditioned for three schools- UNC Greensboro, South Carolina, and Indiana. Fourtunitly, I have been accepted to study tuba at all of them.


I would like to go to

Indiana-
UNCG-
USC

Unfortunitly...

Indiana-$$$
UNCG-$$
USC-$

[Douglas]

I applied to Virginia Commonwealth University, University of South Carolina, and Indiana University.

IU was too expensive and parents said no
I got a full ride to VCU and USC
I'm going to attend the USC YAY GO COCKS!

[Lee Jacobs]

Afer a lot of contemplation, I decided to go to Boston University to do my Masters with Mike Roylance.

[tubadude08]

Lee Jacobs
"Afer a lot of contemplation, I decided to go to Boston University to do my Masters with Mike Roylance."


I dont think you could have picked a much better school, Mike Roylance is an absolutely amazing player, and an incredible teacher. good luck at Boston

[nimrod480]

Hi, a few questions to you all.
im a tuba player in Israel and i'd like to know what you guys have played at the audition and everything you can tell me about the audition and what tubas do you play (what firms) ?

Thanks!

[Douglas]

In my audition I played the VW on my Karl Ziess F tuba with a PT-65-S and I played The Ride on my old Conn 56J with a PT-50.

Hope it helps
Douglas C. Black, Jr.

[THE TUBA]

Do a search for college auditions and you can find some good (fairly new) threads. For my auditions, I played the Effie Joins the Carnival movement from the corresponding Wilder Suite and I played a Bordogni study as my lyrical piece. I had the excerpts from Die Meistersinger, the Hungarian March from the Damnation of Foust, Prelude to Act III of Lohengrin, and the Ride prepared, but I was only asked to play excerpts at Indiana, and I was only asked to play the Ride. I played on my Kalison CC using a LM-5 for the Bordogni and sight-reading (when present) and a PT-65 for the movement from the Effie Suite and the high orchestral excerpts (although I was not asked to play any of them).

Auditioning can be very stressful, especially if the person going before you plays the VW very well. I would suggest buying recordings of pros playing your audition pieces and listening to them while waiting for your turn to tune out the other tubists.

Many (but not all) colleges require (or strongly prefer) that their tuba performance majors play on a CC tuba, so auditioning on one would be a very good idea, although no sane tuba professor would turn away a good player solely because he or she did not have the right horn. A college audition is really like two auditions: the private lesson you have with the tuba professor, and then the actual audition itself. Professors are looking for talent, musicianship, ability to learn and be taught, fundamentals, etc. Play something you are comfortable with and like to play.



To be continued…

[nimrod480]

so the fact that i will audtion on a Eb tuba wont matter..

[Cassie]

I'm going to University of North Texas. I can't wait!
~cassie

[Hank74]

Hey K-Town,

Great to hear about you going to SUNY Purchase. I went to a SUNY school too. Best wishes with the music program there. Besides the F tuba, what other instruments will you be playing there.

Hank74 (also from NYS)

[iandrew]

I was accepted to the graduate programs at California State University Long Beach and Azusa Pacific University. I'm going to be attending Cal State Long Beach with Norm Pearson (whom I hope to be studying with) and my teacher of five years John Van Houten. Congradulations, everyone.