<p>I will echo another post above that many composers don’t go to conservatories at all, but rather go for BA degrees in universities. This worked out nicely for my son (who’s a composition grad student now), and it has the advantage of changing majors if music turns out not to be what they really want. For many BA programs, there is no audition, but a student will submit a music supplement to the application.</p>
<p>I agree with Hunt. The BA schools even have groups which perform the student compositions regularly such as the student run Mahagonney Ensemble at Vassar. They have a student composition contest once a year and perform works by student and alumni composers.<br>
Feb 1st is Saturday - maybe send out one more ‘safety’ application as I suggested earlier in this thread to keep it ‘interesting’. I am looking forward to your update!</p>
<p>Well, she had her Commercial music audition at Belmont & it went well, I think. She really liked the school. She was disturbed that she wasn’t allowed to finish every piece that she auditioned with - she only got through 3/4 of Joplin and 1/2 of the Bach…not flawless but done well…but they listened to all of her improvisational commercial pieces. I reminded her that they said they might do that (stop her before she finished) in the information session but I guess she felt weird about it. The sight reading & theory parts went well. We’ll find out in a few weeks about the music school acceptance there. </p>
<p>She has 2 more auditions coming up - both at much less competitive schools than she’s tried for so far. Thanks for the interest & support!</p>