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Hey all,
I finished my 3rd year recital a few weeks ago and I've been talking with my teacher about graduate auditions for next year. He's recommended a few and I was wondering what everyone else thought. There's a lot to wade through and I have some ideas already, but I'd like few more perspectives.

~Ian

Edit: My question was a little broad. I'll specify: I'm looking for a school to study orchestral performance. Schools like Manhattan School of Music and McGill (I'm Canadian, btw if that makes any difference) that have a specific program would be more or less what I'm looking for. As for a teacher, what I need is not just learning how to play the tuba but learning how to audition and perform. Being the best player at an audition doesn't cut it if you can't pull it off on the day of. Alan Baer is an example of what I think I would like in a teacher. At a masterclass I attended, much of what he talked about was how to prepare for auditions and he seemed to know exactly what to do or at least how to figure out what he needed to do. All that being said, I'm open to any suggestions really.

Tubainsauga wrote:...I've been talking with my teacher ...He's recommended a few...

Which ones, and for what reasons?
That may provide folks with a bit more focus to a very broad range of suggestions (including everyone suggesting their teacher and their grad school).

Also, what do you intend (i.e., "want") to do when you get the next bit of paper? That perspective may also influence suggestions, and possibly get you some answers with a degree of reasoning behind them.

Todd S. Malicoate wrote:

(yeah..., me too...)

Tubainsauga wrote:Graduate School Recommendations

Medical School
Law School
Business School
Engineering School

MartyNeilan wrote:

Tubainsauga wrote:Graduate School Recommendations

Medical School
Law School
Business School
Engineering School

Those are great recommendations!!

Honestly, from your original post, it sounds like you already know what you're looking for. The number of schools that meet your description is small. You're probably already aware of all the options.

It seems to me your criteria could all roll into one: a tuba professor who has "won/been hired as a result of/whatever term you prefer" a major orchestral audition.

Extra points for a professor who has done that more than once.

I know I'm repeating myself, but it looks like you really don't need help from this forum for this decision.

You'll quickly learn that Teachers don't train you to win auditions, they train you to be great musicians, which in turn easily can win auditions. People have a huge misconception of this, honestly just go study with a teacher you have synergy with.

KevinBock wrote:You'll quickly learn that Teachers don't train you to win auditions, they train you to be great musicians, which in turn easily can win auditions. People have a huge misconception of this, honestly just go study with a teacher you have synergy with.

I believe there is a lot of wisdom in this statement. Your teacher isn't auditioning, you are. You can go anywhere and not practice. You have to find somebody that motivates you to work, and someplace where you can do that work.

How do you win auditions? Practice. And considering the relatively small divide between tuba teachers and the tuba greats (something like two degrees from Arnold Jacobs) one teacher will not be telling you things that are vastly different from what another teacher will tell you.

That having been said:

Michigan State
UW Madison
North Texas
Indiana

There. Look at those.