Musical Resumes

[Mark]

This topic: viewtopic.php?t=7292&highlight= started me thinking about resumes.

One usually good piece of advice is to keep the resume to one or perhaps two pages in length. I helped organize a concerto competition recently and some of the resumes for the musicians, age 19 or younger, ran into several pages. This was way more information than we needed and it didn't really impress me.

I guess it all depends on who you are. Here is a resume that is only one line long, but very impressive:


Gene Pokorny

1988 - Present, Principal Tubist, Chicago Symphony Orchestra.

[TubaRay]

This topic: viewtopic.php?t=7292&highlight= started me thinking about resumes.

One usually good piece of advice is to keep the resume to one or perhaps two pages in length. I helped organize a concerto competition recently and some of the resumes for the musicians, age 19 or younger, ran into several pages. This was way more information than we needed and it didn't really impress me.

I guess it all depends on who you are. Here is a resume that is only one line long, but very impressive:


Gene Pokorny
If one is not impressed sufficiently by the resume, 10 seconds of listening to him play should take care of things.


1988 - Present, Principal Tubist, Chicago Symphony Orchestra.