<p>PianoEMT: you might want to reconsider the piano concerto as part of your portfolio. I think that most applicants will have smaller more manageable works in their portfolios. </p>
<p>Writing a piano concerto will eat up an extraordinary amount of time that could be better spent honing several shorter smaller works. Aside from the number of measures of music in a piano concerto (several times that of a typical work), the orchestration will take vast amounts of time. More importantly, finding a good orchestra and pianist to record the concerto will be either impossible or incredibly expensive. </p>
<p>You would probably be better off focusing your time and energy into several shorter works with smaller performing forces.</p>