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I provide audition preparation for woodwind students who may not be studying regularly with a private instructor, but would like assistance in preparing for district and regional auditions.

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(If you are currently studying with another instructor, please get permission from your teacher to work with me.  It's a matter of professional courtesy!)

 

We schedule eight 30- or 60-minute individual sessions at weekly intervals, culminating in a mock audition live or via Zoom.  In each session we review all of the required scales and practice sight-reading, in addition to studying the solo.  

 

Other topics covered are:

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  • Warm-up strategies: ignore those warm-up room hotshots!
     

  • Scales and sight-reading strategies
     

  • The importance of tempo control: how to avoid rushing
     

  • Auditions from the other side of the judges’ desk: what judges listen for
     

  • Audition Math™
     

  • Breath management: what do when the adrenaline kicks in
     

  • What if you DO make a mistake? How to recover gracefully and keep going

I also provide audition workshops onsite at schools. Workshops include a 1-hour talk about the audition process and a 1-hour master class coaching students on their audition music.

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