My son received live auditions at a number of top music schools for VP UG. Does anyone know if faculty members from one school will ask about or discuss a prospective student with faculty members from another school? I’m guessing there must be some cross talk.
Pretty typical to discuss prospective grad students, but undergrads not so much.
I think it depends a lot on the relationship between faculty members. I certainly know cases where there has been discussion between a senior faculty member at one institution who was the professor/mentor of a faculty member at another institution.
At this point in the audition season regarding an undergrad I think that I am quite safe in saying, “No”, they don’t.
There are so very many applicants that sorting through the mix to talk about one would be a miracle in time management right now!
We trusted that the teachers have been around long enough to work out any conflicts of interest when it comes to students. One professor asked us with whom we had had trial lessons already, laughed at our answer and walked over to a wall in his studio and took down a picture of himself and the three other teachers we listed, all standing together at some sort of conference. But I really doubt he got on the phone to any of them after we left. Friendship is friendship and business is business.
I suspect the only crosstalk might be if a student auditions at programs where a couple of professors were on both panels (does happen, since teachers often teach at multiple schools, so someone, for example, could audition at MSM and Mannes in NYC and see some familiar faces smile…but I agree, auditions are so hectic and so forth, that it isn’t very likely at all, not to mention that many music teachers are, well, kind of in their own world lol.