<p>flutechica,
I see you have some Florida schools on your list so I am going to suggest UMiami. My S has a good friend who is a 2nd year flute performance major there, made his decision to attend based on the teacher who I think is a former musician from the Met Opera. On my S’s audition day last year (different instrument) we had the opportunity to attend a flute studio class which was amazing and very welcoming. I do not know much about your instrument but you should at least take a look at their website.
UMiami Frost School of Music has a very supportive atmosphere across the board, some instruments stronger than others but the overall feeling at this school is wonderful. They also offer very generous scholarships to talented musicians. In addition to music, you would get an excellent academic education there.
Feel free to PM me for more details, my niece is a graduate of Frost in the Music Business program so I have attended many concerts and am familiar with the general program.</p>
<p>flutechica, without knowing more of your stats and musical experiences and training, I’d say you have a nice mix of potential choices from some of the most competitive to some that might be considered safeties depending on your skill sets. But flute is highly competitive and any audition based program can be a crap shoot.</p>
<p>I’m not that well versed in specific flute faculty, but here’s a few titled prior flute threads that may answer some questions and provide some additional options.</p>
<p><a href=“http://talk.collegeconfidential.com/music-major/224146-schools-flute-help.html?highlight=flute[/url]”>http://talk.collegeconfidential.com/music-major/224146-schools-flute-help.html?highlight=flute</a>
<a href=“http://talk.collegeconfidential.com/music-major/484442-good-colleges-not-conservatories-flute.html?highlight=flute[/url]”>http://talk.collegeconfidential.com/music-major/484442-good-colleges-not-conservatories-flute.html?highlight=flute</a>
<a href=“http://talk.collegeconfidential.com/music-major/307288-good-flute-performance-schools.html?highlight=flute[/url]”>http://talk.collegeconfidential.com/music-major/307288-good-flute-performance-schools.html?highlight=flute</a></p>
<p>There’s also plenty of specific info on Oberlin, Ithaca, Peabody, Lawrence and NEC, and less on Stetson and FSU. Try a title search on the school name, and you can look through the pinned visits thread as well. Also take a look through the current and past year’s master list threads (use the last post in the thread which has the most current update) and scan for poster, discipline and school. There were a number of flute acceptances, and you might want to search for posts under those username entries, or try pm’ing. The OP in this thread just got an acceptance for Hartt, (UHartford/Hartt is one you may want to look into as well as Miami/Frost mentioned by slovesviola) and you may want to initiate contact and get a feel for their audition choices and experiences.</p>
<p>Flutechica, my D is a freshman flute performance major at CCM. I would be happy to try to answer any questions you might have. She was also accepted at UMiami, Frost School of Music. They have a great flute teacher who is trying to build the program. As far as small schools, St. Olaf College has a very strong flute studio.</p>
<p>Flutechica-- feel free to PM me if you want any flute college-related advice/information. I’m still in the process of auditioning, but I’d love to help make other people’s college process less confusing if I can. I certainly have some advice on what NOT to do that I wish I could share with my past self, haha</p>
<p>flutechica
if you are considering Adelphi,take a look also at SUNY Stonybrook…almost the same location,probably a much better music school/flute studio</p>
<p>Hi. thanks for the reply, I am getting so much helpful information!</p>
<p>You said that your D recently got accepted to CCM? I have a friend there that plays horn, and I checked out their flute professor as well, and was very impressed.
Do freshman students generally start taking from a professor, or a grad student?
Also, is CCM generally a very competitive school for flute? (i haven’t really researched it too too in depth yet…)</p>
<p>sprstr,
thanks for replying! I am just a little bit confused because while I do know my major, I don’t know whether or not I want to go to a conservatory(if I could get in) or a 4 year college with a sturdy music program. Do you have any advice?</p>
<p>flutechica, have you looked into Luther College? Carol Hester is a great teacher, and has produced some strong players. Also, St. Olaf College has a good music program, but I have heard mixed reviews about their flute teacher. These are two good four year college suggestions if you don’t want to go the conservatory route.</p>
<p>Flutechica,
I actually asked that same question last year–
<a href=“http://talk.collegeconfidential.com/music-major/721734-how-do-you-figure-out-whether-conservatory-right-you.html[/url]”>http://talk.collegeconfidential.com/music-major/721734-how-do-you-figure-out-whether-conservatory-right-you.html</a>
Someone in that thread suggested doing a summer intensive program… I never did (yet!), but I think it would be a great idea if a conservatory is something you might be into at all. Since you’re a junior, you’d be able to use that experience to see whether or not you’d want to study music at a conservatory… and the teachers there can give you feedback on what schools to look into.</p>
<p>I really wanted to go to a more general four-year university, but I found that most of the programs I really liked require good grades. I ended up focusing on conservatories that would focus more on my audition so that I wouldn’t feel like I had to fight my way into school.
But your situation is probably different. Are there other things you’d like to study alongside with music that you wouldn’t be able to study at a conservatory? And have you looked up the flute teachers at the schools you’re interested in? A bit later on, you might want to try contacting them and asking if you can have a trial lesson so you can get a feel for their teaching and see whether you’d want to study with them.</p>
<p>flutechica, CCM is quite competitive for flute, but if you are a strong player it is worth checking out. All of the flute students study with the professor, and he is outstanding.</p>
<p>How important is it to take a lesson from the professor at a school you are looking at? Did everyone meet/play for the professors before auditioning? My D has some auditions coming up where she’s not played for the professors beforehand. How much will this hurt her?</p>
<p>I am auditioning soon too, and what I’ve found out, is if you can meet with the professor and take a lesson from them beforehand, its good, but the jurors are very non biased and that doesn’t really help or hurt you when it comes to the actual audition.
The reason it is good to visit the professor is to see how you work with them, and see if you have a good connection with them, but it doesn’t really give you an advantage during the audition.</p>
<p>flutefam, there’s links to current and past sample lesson threads here <a href=“http://talk.collegeconfidential.com/music-major/850405-when-schedule-sample-lessons.html[/url]”>http://talk.collegeconfidential.com/music-major/850405-when-schedule-sample-lessons.html</a></p>
<p>I believe a lesson is very helpful in the audition process. Not necessarily to tip the scales your way, but to see if YOU will like this professor. I felt the professor needed to impress our D just as much as D needed to impress them! In most cases, this is the person you will have the most contact with for the next four years!<br>
Throughout D’s high school years she was able to work with several different professors. I imagine it could be just a coincidence, but the professors she had worked with were the college acceptances she recieved…the three rejections came from schools where she had never even met the professors. Like I said, not sure how much of this is merely coincidence. She may have just felt more comfortable with these auditions…we will never know. She is attending her top professor choice and absolutely loves the school and the professor.<br>
Wishing everyone the best through this very busy time. We were in the midst of all the auditioning a year ago.</p>